Year : 
2008
Title : 
Agricultural Science
Exam : 
WASSCE/WAEC MAY/JUNE

Paper 1 | Objectives

31 - 40 of 58 Questions

# Question Ans
31.

Which of the following characteristics is not true of a good pasture crop?

A. high palatability

B. high nutritive value

C. resistance to trampling

D. poor digestibility

D

32.

The benefits of establishing forests do not include

A. derivation of medicine

B. provision of food

C. improvement of micro-climate

D. shading of crops

D

33.

Floriculture is a subdivision of horticulture which deals with the cultivation of

A. fruit crops

B. vegetables

C. ornamental plants

D. spices

C

34.

Which of the following insect pests causes defoliation in crops?

A. mirid

B. grasshopper

C. weevil

D. aphid

B

35.

Which of the following pesticides effectively control maize stem borers?

A. systematic insecticides

B. contact poisons

C. nematicides

D. fumigants

A

36.

Which of the following combinations of practices best controls groundnut rosette disease?

A. late planting and spraying of insecticide

B. early planting and spraying of nematicide

C. late planting and spraying of fungicide

D. early planting and spraying of insecticide

D

37.

Determine the number of bottles of a herbicide required to spray 25 hectares of farmland, if one bottle is needed to prepare 100 litres and the diluted product product is applied at a rate of 20 litres per hectare.

A. 2 bottles

B. 5 bottles

C. 8 bottles

D. 11 bottles

B

38.

The milk secreting organ in cattle is the

A. dewlap

B. udder

C. comb

D. muzzle

B

39.

A developing embryo derives its nutrition from the mother

A. through the blood vessels located in the placenta

B. by sucking the mammary glands

C. by direct diffusion through the blood vessels in the liver

D. through the blood vessels located in the intestine of the mother

A

40.

Birds store food in the

A. crop

B. gizzard

C. proventriculus

D. cloaca

A

31.

Which of the following characteristics is not true of a good pasture crop?

A. high palatability

B. high nutritive value

C. resistance to trampling

D. poor digestibility

D

32.

The benefits of establishing forests do not include

A. derivation of medicine

B. provision of food

C. improvement of micro-climate

D. shading of crops

D

33.

Floriculture is a subdivision of horticulture which deals with the cultivation of

A. fruit crops

B. vegetables

C. ornamental plants

D. spices

C

34.

Which of the following insect pests causes defoliation in crops?

A. mirid

B. grasshopper

C. weevil

D. aphid

B

35.

Which of the following pesticides effectively control maize stem borers?

A. systematic insecticides

B. contact poisons

C. nematicides

D. fumigants

A

36.

Which of the following combinations of practices best controls groundnut rosette disease?

A. late planting and spraying of insecticide

B. early planting and spraying of nematicide

C. late planting and spraying of fungicide

D. early planting and spraying of insecticide

D

37.

Determine the number of bottles of a herbicide required to spray 25 hectares of farmland, if one bottle is needed to prepare 100 litres and the diluted product product is applied at a rate of 20 litres per hectare.

A. 2 bottles

B. 5 bottles

C. 8 bottles

D. 11 bottles

B

38.

The milk secreting organ in cattle is the

A. dewlap

B. udder

C. comb

D. muzzle

B

39.

A developing embryo derives its nutrition from the mother

A. through the blood vessels located in the placenta

B. by sucking the mammary glands

C. by direct diffusion through the blood vessels in the liver

D. through the blood vessels located in the intestine of the mother

A

40.

Birds store food in the

A. crop

B. gizzard

C. proventriculus

D. cloaca

A