REVIEW QUESTIONS IN ALLIED SUBJECTS

CROP SCIENCE, SOILS AND CROP PROTECTION

1. The word “ager”, the root word for the word agriculture, means
a. Earth
b. Soil
c. Garden
d. Field
2. A simple tissue which is the seat of most activities in plants
a. Parenchyma
b. Collenchyma
c. Sclerenchyma
d. Lignin
3. Pomology is a branch of horticulture mainly concerned with the production of:
a. Vegetables
b. Cereal grains
c. Fruits
d. Landscape crops
4. Part of the cell that carries most of the genetic materials of the plant
a. Cell wall
b. Ribosome
c. Nucleus
d. Plasmodesmata
5. Legumes grown and incorporated back into the soil to provide nitrogen to
succeeding crops are called
a. Green manure
b. Cash crop
c. Cover crop
d. Biocidal crop
6. Oryza sativa is commonly known as:
a. Wheat
b. Rye
c. Rice
d. Corn
7. CO2 + H2O + light → CH2O + O2
a. Transpiration
b. Translocation
c. Respiration
d. Photosynthesis
8. The change in size, shape, form, degree of differentiation and state of complexity
a. Germination
b. Growth
 c. Differentiation
d. Development
9. The response to shaking that is not related to the direction of the stimulus
a. Thigmonasty
b. Epinasty
c. Seismonasty
d. Nyctinasty
10. Propagation of plants with the use of seeds or spores
a. Sexual
b. Asexual
c. Tissue Culture
d. Genetic engineering
11. The inability of the seed to germinate due to factors which are inherent in the seed
a. Quiescence
b. Dormancy
c. Germination
d. Development
12. Pattern of germination in which the hypocotyl elongates and raises the cotyledons
above the ground
a. Epigeous
b. Hypogeous
c. Hypergeous
d. Dormancy
13. A method of breaking seed dormancy in which hard seed coats are rubbed in
abrasive paper or any rough material to make them permeable to water and gases:
a. Vernalization
b. Soaking
c. Stratification
d. Scarification
14. Celery seeds need to be exposed under 4.4 to 10°C for 10 days under imbibed
condition to germinate. This process is called:
a. Vernalization
b. Soaking
c. Stratification
d. Scarification
15. The pre-treatment of corn seeds using 100 g metalaxyl per 15 kg corn seeds to
make a slurry is a called:
a. Seed Protectant
b. Inoculant
c. Green manure
d. Chemical soaking
16. Asexual propagule that is a swollen base of a stem axis enclosed by the dry-scale
leaves:
 a. Tuber
b. Crown
c. Cormel
d. Corm
17. A method of propagating new plants when seeding, cutting, grafting and other
methods are impractical or ineffective:
a. Layering
b. Budding
c. Grafting
d. Inarching
18. Transfer of pollen grains from the stamen to the stigma of the pistil (carpel) of a
flower:
a. Emasculation
b. Backcrossing
c. Pollination
d. Topcrossing
19. A type of plow that is widely adapted in breaking different types of soil for turning
and covering crop residues.
a. rotary plow
b. moldboard plow
c. disk plow
d. all of the above
20. A tillage equipment which displaces and shatters soil, used to reduce soil strength
and to bury or mix plant materials and fertilizers in the tilled layer.
a. primary tillage equipment
b. secondary tillage equipment
c. seeding and planting equipment
d. none of the above
21. A tillage implement consisting of two or four gangs of concave disks.
a. disk plow
b. disk harrow
c. cultivator
d. none of the above
22. A tillage implement which shatters the soil without complete burial or mixing of
surface materials.
a. chisel plow
b. lister plow
c. disk plow
d. none of the above
23. Mechanical manipulation of soil for any purpose.
a. land grading
b. tillage
c. earth moving
 d. none of the above
24. A procedure in which planting is made directly into an essentially unprepared
seedbed.
a. zero tillage
b. no-tillage planting
c. reduced tillage
d. none of the above
25. A secondary tillage operation which pulverizes, smoothens, and packs the soil
during seedbed preparation and also controls weeds.
a. harrowing
b. listing
c. chiselling
d. none of the above

26. A tillage and land forming operation using a tool which splits the soil and turns
two furrows laterally in opposite directions, thereby providing a ridge-and-furrow
soil configuration.
a. listing
b. harrowing
c. chiselling
d. none of the above
27. Minimum soil manipulation necessary for crop production or for meeting tillage
requirements under existing soil condition.
a. no-tillage planting
b. much tillage
c. minimum tillage
d. none of the above
28. It is deep chiselling below 16 in. for the purpose of loosening soil for root growth
and/or water movement.
a. ridging
b. chiselling
c. subsoiling
d. none of the above
29. It is the part of the moldboard plow that receives the furrow slice from the share
and turns to break, crush, and pulverize the soil.
a. share
b. shin
c. moldboard
d. all of the above
30. A type of plow which is equipped with plow bodies which turn the furrow slice to
one side only.
a. one-way plow
b. two-way plow
 c. two of the above
d. none of the above
31. A type of plow which has two sets of bodies mounted symmetrically on a share
frame which can be rotated over 180 degrees along the longitudinal axis.
a. reversible plow
b. one-way plow
c. lister plow
d. none of the above
32. A type of plow designed to reduce friction by making a rolling bottom instead of
slides along the furrow.
a. moldboard
b. rotary plow
c. disk plow
d. none of the above
33. A primary-tillage plow used for small rice farm.
a. moldboard
b. rotary
c. spiral
d. all of the above
34. A primary- tillage plow for rice farming that is attached in replacement to the cage
wheel of a power tiller.
a. rotary
b. spiral
c. disk
d. all of the above
35. A plow that combines the primary and secondary tillage at the same time. It is
used to cut and to pulverize the soil.
a. disk plow
b. rotary plow
c. chisel plow
d. all of the above
36. A plow primarily for loosening the soil.
a. lister plow
b. disk plow
c. chisel plow
d. all of the above
37. A plow that is used to break up plow sole.
a. chisel plow
b. lister plow
c. subsoiler
d. none of the above
38. A secondary-tillage implement which stirs the soil using multiple number of disk
blade arranged on a gang.
 a. spike tooth harrow
b. disk harrow
c. two of the above
d. none of the above
39. Seeding directly into previously undisturbed soil.
a. mulch tillage
b. no-till
c. minimum tillage
d. none of the above
40. A tillage operation traditionally performed in preparing a seedbed for a given crop
grown in a given geographical area.
a. conventional tillage
b. conservation tillage
c. strip tillage
d. none of the above
41. A primary tillage operation which manipulates the soil to a greater depth than 300
mm.
a. reservoir tillage
b. deep tillage
c. ridge tillage
d. none of the above
42. An equipment used to place seed in a furrow.
a. planter
b. seeder
c. broadcaster
d. all of the above
43. An equipment used to place plant parts to a prepared furrow.
a. planter
b. seeder
c. broadcaster
d. all of the above
44. A machine that prepares the soil, meters the seed, and positions the seed in one
operation.
a. broadcaster
b. drill
c. field distributor
d. none of the above
45. A machine, which is cylindrical in shape, designed for planting pre-germinated
rice seed in rows.
a. broadcaster
b. drum seeder
c. jab planter
d. none of the above
46. Determine the number of plants for a 2-hectare farm planted with corn with a
spacing of 25 cm x 45 cm.
a. 150,000 plants
b. 177,777 plants
c. 185, 877 plants
d. none of the above
47. A scattering of seeds on the surface of prepared soil.
a. drill seeding
b. hill dropping
c. broadcasting
d. none of the above
48. It is a machine that places rice seedlings at a proper spacing on a well-prepared
paddy soil.
a. rice seeder
b. rice transplanter
c. all of the above
d. none of the above
49. In the Philippines, rice is usually transplanted
a. for weed control reasons as the seedlings have a head start over the weeds
b. to give employment to landless farm workers
c. to prevent rats and birds from eating the seeds.
d. none of the above
50. A mechanically-operated machine that removes weeds or grasses from the crops.
a. seeder
b. weeder
c. cultivator
d. none of the above
51. A machine that breaks the liquid droplets of effective size and distributes them
uniformly over the surface or space to be protected, and regulates the amount of
chemical solution to avoid excessive application that might prove harmful or
wasteful.
a. duster
b. sprayer
c. all of the above
d. none of the above
52. It is a sprayer apparatus consisting of pressure source and controls and specifically
employing an over-the-crop boom with automizer arranged to provide uniform
coverage of the treated surfaces.
a. boom sprayer
b. knapsack sprayer
c. compressed-air sprayer
d. none of the above
53. A field sprayer that is being carried at the back by means of a shoulder straps.
 a. compressed-air sprayer
b. knapsack sprayer
c. power sprayer
d. none of the above
54. A mechanical or thermal device that produces a liquid dispersion having a volume
median diameter of less than 50 um.
a. knapsack sprayer
b. aerosol generator
c. compressed-air sprayer
e. none of the above
55. An apparatus, which consists of a hopper, a metering unit, and a distribution
device, that uses either gravity, centrifugal force, or pendulum action to spread
granules to the surface of the entire area to be treated.
a. broadcast spreader
b. granular applicator
c. power sprayer
d. none of the above
56. A machine that detaches the grain from a panicle.
a. reaper
b. thresher
c. sheller
d. all of the above
57. A machine used in separating the kernels from the cob.
a. grader
b. sheller
c. thresher
d. none of the above
58. A tillage or soil preparation in which plant residues are specifically left on or near
the surface.
a. strip tillage
b. mulch tillage
c. optimum tillage
d. none of the above
59. A tillage system which consists of fewer or less energy intensive optimum
compared with conventional tillage.
a. minimum tillage
b. no-till tillage
c. reduce tillage
d. all of the above
60. When soil is thrown to the plant during cultivation, the operation is
a. hilling-up
b. barring-off
c. listing
 d. all of the above
61. When soils are thrown away from the plants during cultivation, the operation is
a. hilling-up
b. barring-off
c. sweeping
d. none of the above
62. Growing of more than one crop on the same land in one year
a. mixed crop
b. multiple cropping
c. inter-cropping
d. none of the above
63. Growing of two or more crops simultaneously and intermingled with no row
arrangement.
a. mixed cropping
b. inter cropping
c. multiple cropping
d. none of the above
64. Growing of two or more crops in alternate rows.
a. inter-planting
b. inter-cropping
c. inter-culture
d. all of the above
65. It is a practice of planting short term annual crop with long-term annual or biennial
crops.
a. inter-planting
b. inter-cropping
c. inter-culture
d. all of the above
66. It is the cultivation of one crop underneath a perennial crop.
a. inter-planting
b. inter-cropping
c. inter-culture
d. all of the above
67. Application of chemical to a small restricted area, usually to control the spread of
pest
a. spot treatment
b. space application
c. direct application
d. all of the above
68. Dispersion of liquid or dry particles in air in such a manner that target pest are
exposed to chemical.
a. spot treatment
b. space treatment
 c. direct application
d. all of the above
69. Application of chemical to the stem, fruit, leaves, needles, or blades of a plant.
a. direct application
b. foliar application
c. space application
d. all of the above
70. Application of chemical to a specific area such as row, bed, or at base of the plant
a. direct application
b. spot treatment
c. space application
d. none of the above
71. Application of chemical over entire area to be treated.
a. basal application
b. band application
c. broadcast application
d. none of the above
72. Application of chemical to the base of a tree around the trunk or by injection into
slasher or cuts.
a. basal application
b. broadcast application
c. band application
d. none of the above
73. Application of chemical in parallel strips leaving the area between strips free of
chemicals.
a. basal application
b. broadcast application
c. band application
d. none of the above
74. A machine that is used with small plow and harrow designed for rice farming
operation.
a. puddling-type floating tiller
b. power tiller
c. hydro tiller
d. all of the above
75. Part of soil profile exploited by the roots of the plant.
a. root bed
b. root zone
c. tillage zone
d. none of the above
76. These are inorganic substances formed when one or more elements combine.
a. Mycorrhiza
b. Minerals
 c. Sediments
d. Water
77. Soil particle with diameter size of less than 0.002 mm.
a. Sand
b. Silt
c. Clay
d. Gravel
78. Has the highest CEC among the choices.
a. Sand
b. Humus
c. Montmorillonite
d. Good soil
79. Bacterium that inhabits the roots of legumes in nodules and capable of fixing
nitrogen to make N available to plants
a. Rhizobium
b. Nitrosomonas
c. Nitrococcus
d. Nitrobacter
80. Equipment powered by an electric motor or by an engine used to spray fertilizer or
pesticide to a certain height
a. Mist blower
b. Power sprayer
c. Granular Fertilizer Applicator
d. All of the above
81. Soil layer where most of the nutrients and organic matter accumulate
a. Topsoil
b. Subsoil
c. Parent Material
d. Bedrock
82. A measure of a soils’ mass per unit volume of soil
a. CEC
b. Soil Moisture Content
c. Bulk density
d. Particle density
83. Nutrient movement down a concentration gradient from high to low concentration
a. CEC
b. Root Interception
c. Mass Flow
d. Diffusion
84. Removal of material from one place and its transport elsewhere by wind or water
a. Erosion
b. Sedimentation
c. Kaingin
 d. Diffusion
85. This is unconsolidated mineral debris resulting from a previous cycle of
weathering.
a. Biota
b. Climate
c. Time
d. Parent material
86. Removal of excess ground or surface water by artificial means
a. Drainage
b. Irrigation
c. Kaingin
d. Erosion
87. Built at the entry to the irrigation system to direct water from the original source of
supply such as lake, river, reservoir into the irrigation system
a. Pumping station
b. Sprinkler head
c. Drainage canal
d. Intake structure
88. Rotating sprinkler device which by its rotating motion around its vertical axis
distributes liquid over an area
a. Pumping station
b. Sprinkler head
c. Drainage canal
d. Intake structure
89. Irrigation method in which the field is divided up into strips by parallel ridges or
dykes and each strip is irrigated separately by introducing water upstream and it
progressively covers the entire strip
a. Flooding
b. Border
c. Basin
d. Drip
90. Sprinkler system designed to be moved from one field to another or other pumping
sites that are in the same field
a. Mobile
b. Semi-portable
c. Permanent
d. All of the above
91. Irrigation system involving applying water slowly to the soil ideally at the same
rate with crop consumption
a. Surface
b. Sprinkler
c. Drip
d. Sub-surface
92. Irrigation system involving flooding water underground and allowing it to come
up by capillarity to crop roots
a. Surface
b. Sprinkler
c. Drip
d. Sub-surface
93. The soil profile modified by tillage or amendments for use by plant roots
a. root bed
b. root zone
c. tillage zone
d. none of the above
94. Any organism that cause damage to agricultural crops and animals
a. Pest
b. Nutrient deficiency
c. Toxin
d. Mycorrhiza
95. Organism that is economically important due to its significant reduction in crop
quantity
a. Occasional Pest
b. Key Pest
c. Migrant Pest
d. Potential Pest
96. A plant that is out of place or existing where it is not needed
a. Disease
b. Insect
c. Rodent
d. Weed
97. Organism that currently does not cause significant damage to crops under the
prevailing farming system but has the potential to become a key pest if farming
system is modified
a. Occasional Pest
b. Key Pest
c. Migrant Pest
d. Potential Pest
98. A term used to describe all the effects of weeds to crops regardless of the cause
a. Parasitism
b. Competition
c. Allelopathy
d. Interference
99. The toxin in a pesticide
a. Active ingredient
b. Filler
c. Inert ingredient
 d. Surfactant
100. It is a structural member of an implement where tillage tool to be a beam attached.
a. boom
b. shank
c. gang
d. none of the above