Chapter-4 [ Agriculture]
1. Horticulture means
a) growing of fruits and vegetables
b) primitive farming
c) growing of wheat
d) growing of rice
Answer. a) growing of fruits and vegetables
Horticulture means the growing of fruits, vegetables, and flowers for commercial use.
2. Golden fiber refers to
a) tea
b) cotton
c) jute
d) silk
Answer. c) Jute.
Jute is also called Golden fiber. Jute crops require heavy precipitation and high temperatures.
India and Bangladesh are leading producers of Jute.
3. Leading producers of coffee
a) Brazil
b) India
c) Russia
d) Sri Lanka
Answer. a) Brazil.
Brazil is the leading producer of coffee.
Coffee requires:
Warm and Wet Climate
Loamy Soil
Hill slopes
4. How much world's population is engaged in agricultural activities??
a) 30 %
b) 40 %
c) 50 %
d) 75 %
Answer. c) 50 %
5. How much is India’s population still dependent on agriculture?
a) 30 %
b) 40 %
c) 50 %
d) 75 %
Answer. d) 75 %
6. The science and art of cultivation on the soil, raising crops, and rearing livestock. What it is called?
a) Agriculture
b) Sericulture
c) Pisciculture
d) Viticulture
Answer. a) Agriculture
7. Commercial rearing of silkworms. What it is called?
a) Horticulture
b) Sericulture
c) Pisciculture
d) Viticulture
Answer. b) Sericulture
8. Breeding of fish in specially constructed tanks and ponds. What it is called?
a) Horticulture
b) Sericulture
c) Pisciculture
d) Viticulture
Answer. c) Pisciculture
9. Cultivation of grapes. What it is called?
a) Horticulture
b) Sericulture
c) Pisciculture
d) Viticulture
Answer. d) Viticulture
10. Growing vegetables, flowers, and fruits for commercial use. What it is called?
a) Horticulture
b) Sericulture
c) Pisciculture
d) Viticulture
Answer. a) Horticulture
11. Which of the following is not an input of the farm system?
a) Seeds
b) Fertilisers
c) Machinery
d) Crops
Answer. d) Crops are output.
12. Which of the following is a processing unit of the farm system?
a) Ploughing
b) Sowing
c) Spraying
d) All of the above
Answer. d) All of the above
13. Which of the following are human inputs in the farm system?
a) Sunshine
b) Rainfall
c) Temperature
d) Storage
Answer. d) Storage
14. Which of the following is the processing unit of the farm system?
a) Harvesting
b) Crops
c) Wool
d) Dairy
Answer. a) Harvesting
15. Which of the following types of farming, organic manure, and natural pesticides are used instead
of chemicals. No genetic modification is done to increase the yield of the crop.
a) Subsistence farming
b) Commercial farming
c) Organic farming
d) Zero-budget farming
Answer. c) Organic farming
16. The farming method practiced to meet the needs of the farmer’s family, is called?
a) Subsistence farming
b) Commercial farming
c) Organic farming
d) intensive subsistence agriculture
Answer. a) Subsistence farming
17. The farming system in which the farmer cultivates a small plot of land using simple tools and more labor is called?
a) Subsistence farming
b) Primitive subsistence agriculture
c) Organic farming
d) intensive subsistence agriculture
Answer. d) intensive subsistence agriculture
18. Which of the following regions is not famous for intensive subsistence agriculture?
a) Monsoon region
b) southeast Asia
c) East Asia
d) Russia
Answer. d) Russia
19. shifting cultivation and nomadic herding farm systems are categorized in which of the following farm systems?
a) Subsistence farming
b) Primitive subsistence agriculture
c) Mixed farming
d) intensive subsistence agriculture
Answer. b) Primitive subsistence agriculture
20. What is the name of Shifting cultivation or ‘slash and burn agriculture in North East India?
a) Jhumming
b) Milpa
c) Roca
d) Ladang
Answer. a) Jhumming
21. What is the name of Shifting cultivation or ‘slash and burn agriculture in Mexico?
a) Jhumming
b) Milpa
c) Roca
d) Ladang
Answer. b) Milpa
22. What is the name of Shifting cultivation or ‘slash and burn agriculture in Brazil?
a) Jhumming
b) Milpa
c) Roca
d) Ladang
Answer. c) Roca
23. What is the name of Shifting cultivation or ‘slash and burn agriculture in Malaysia?
a) Jhumming
b) Milpa
c) Roca
d) Ladang
Answer. d) Ladang
24. the land is used for growing food and fodder crops and rearing livestock, the type of farm system is called?
a) Subsistence farming
b) Primitive subsistence agriculture
c) Mixed farming
d) intensive subsistence agriculture
Answer. c) Mixed farming
25. Mixed farming is not practiced in which of the following regions?
a) Europe and Eastern USA.
b) Argentina
c) Semi-arid region of Sahara Desert
d) South Africa
Answer. c) Semi-arid region of Sahara Desert
26. Which of the following is not a plantation crop?
a) Wheat
b) Banana
c) Cotton
d) Coffee
Answer. a) Wheat
27. Which of the following country is the largest producer of Rubber?
a) Brazil
b) Malaysia
c) Thailand
d) Indonesia
Answer. c) Thailand> Indonesia
a) Brazil
b) Vietnam
c) Thailand
d) Colombia
Answer. a) Brazil> Vietnam> Colombia
29. Which of the following crops needs high temperature, high humidity, and rainfall. It grows best in alluvial clayey soil, which can retain water.
a) Wheat
b) Rice
c) Cotton
d) Sugarcane
Answer. b) Rice
30. Which of the following country is the largest producer of Rice in the world?
a) China
b) India
c) Japan
d) Indonesia
Answer. a) China > India
31. Which of the following crops requires moderate temperature and rainfall during the growing season and bright sunshine at the time of harvest. It thrives best in a well-drained loamy soil.
a) Wheat
b) Rice
c) Cotton
d) Maize
Answer. a) Wheat
32. Which of the following crops requires moderate temperature, rainfall, and lots of sunshine. It needs
well-drained fertile soils.
a) Wheat
b) Rice
c) Cotton
d) Maize
Answer. d) Maize
33. Which of the following crops requires high temperature, light rainfall, two hundred and ten frost-free days, and bright sunshine for its growth. It grows best on black and alluvial soils.
a) Wheat
b) Jute
c) Cotton
d) Maize
Answer. c) Cotton
34. Which of the following is also known as golden fiber?
a) Cotton
b) Silk
c) Jute
d) Coffee
Answer. c) Jute
35. Which of the following crops requires high temperature, heavy rainfall, and humid climate.
a) Wheat
b) Jute
c) Cotton
d) Maize
Answer. b) Jute
36. Which of the following crops requires a warm and wet climate and well-drained loamy soil. Hill slopes are more suitable for the growth of this crop.
a) Coffee
b) Rubber
c) Cotton
d) Tea
Answer. a) Coffee
37. Which of the following crops requires a cool climate and well-distributed high rainfall throughout the year for growth. It needs well-drained loamy soils and gentle slopes.
a) Coffee
b) Rubber
c) Cotton
d) Tea
Answer. d) Tea
38. The efforts made to increase farm production to meet the growing demand for increasing
the population is called?
a) Green revolution
b) White revolution
c) Agricultural development
d) Mechanization of agriculture
Answer. c) Agricultural development
39. When all people, at all times, have access to sufficient, safe, and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life. What is it called?
a) Green revolution
b) Food sufficiency
c) Agricultural development
d) Food security
Answer. d) Food security
Chapter Wise MCQ of class 8 geography
- Chapter-1[ Resources]
- Chapter -2 [ Land, Soil, Water, Natural Vegetation, and Wildlife Resources]
- Chapter -3[ Mineral and Power Resources]
- Chapter-4 [ Agriculture]
- Chapter-5[ Industries]
- Chapter-6[ Human Resources]
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