This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Cbse > Class 8 > Geography > Agriculture > Class 8 Geography Chapter 4 Agriculture – Quiz 2 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 8 Geography Chapter 4 Agriculture Quiz 2 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Subsistence agriculture is done in areas with high population A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 2. The type of farming practised to meet the need's of the farmer's family is ..... A) Commercial farming. B) Subsistence farming. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Subsistence farming. 3. In India, how many people depend on agriculture A) One fourth. B) 0. C) Half. D) Two third. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Two third. 4. Q4 Typicalfarm size in the USA is about 250 hectares. A) TRUE. B) FALSE. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) TRUE. 5. Important non-food crops of our country are: A) Tea and coffee. B) Millets and pulses. C) Cotton and jute. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cotton and jute. 6. Georgia ranks 3rd in the nation in the production of ..... and peaches. A) Cotton. B) Pecans. C) Peanuts. D) Eggs. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cotton. 7. Farmers till their land, grow food crops, and add manure to the soil to make it more fertile. Foodcrops are then taken to factories to make bread, buiscuits, and other foods from flour. Favourable topography of soil and climate are vital for agricultural activity. What is the land on which the crops are grown known as? A) Arid land. B) Barren land. C) Swamp land. D) Arable land. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Arable land. 8. Q8 Indian soils have been used for growing crops over thousands of years without caring much for replenishing A) TRUE. B) FALSE. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) TRUE. 9. Q9 How much employment It provides to of the total population of the country. A) 62%. B) 63%. C) 61%. D) 60%. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 60%. 10. Will you test the soil for fertility before farming? A) Yes. B) No. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Yes. 11. How many types of farming is there? A) 3. B) 1. C) 4. D) 2. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 2. 12. What is the main aim of agriculture devolopement? A) Cheese security. B) Show-off. C) Food security. D) Increasing money of output(fruit). Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Food security. 13. Which is not a primary activity? A) Agriculture. B) Manufacturing. C) Fishing. D) Gathering. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Manufacturing. 14. Q3 What do you understand from agriculture. A) It Agriculture is the science and art of cultivation on the soil. B) Commercial rearing of silk worms. C) Breeding of fish in specially constructed tanks and ponds. D) Cultivation of grapes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It Agriculture is the science and art of cultivation on the soil. 15. Which Crop are grown in extensive farming A) Wheat. B) Oats. C) Barley. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 16. Who started Tea Plantation in India A) British. B) Mughals. C) French. D) Khilji Dynasty. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) British. 17. About how much the percentage of Indian population is dependent on agriculture (approx) A) 90. B) 56. C) 67. D) 75. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 67. 18. Agriculture plays an important role in A) Our lives. B) Strengthening global relation by trading. C) Helps in spending leisure time. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Strengthening global relation by trading. 19. Which of these is not is leading countries in cultivation of millets? A) India. B) Australia. C) China. D) Nigeria. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Australia. 20. ..... is also known as paddy. A) Maize. B) Wheat. C) Rice. D) Jowar. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rice. 21. What is breeding of fish called? A) Viticulture. B) Fish farm. C) Agriculture. D) Sericulture. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fish farm. 22. Hsof India's population depends on agriculture A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 23. Increasing production through use of HYV seeds, chemical fertilizers and pesticides. A) GREEN REVOLUTION. B) BLUE REVOLUTION. C) SILVER REVOLUTION. D) PINK REVOLUTION. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) GREEN REVOLUTION. 24. ..... is called the food bowl of India. A) The Northern Desert. B) The Northern Mountains. C) The Deccan plateau. D) The Northern Plains. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Northern Plains. 25. Big pieces of soil are called A) Stones. B) Crumbs. C) Sand. D) Stock. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Crumbs. 26. What is the cultivation of grapes also called? A) Floriculture. B) Horticulture. C) Viticulture. D) Fish farm. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Viticulture. 27. Cropping season form November to March is called A) Kharif. B) Rabi. C) Zaid. D) None of those. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rabi. 28. It is the process of planting seeds. A) Leveling. B) Sowing. C) Initial planting. D) Seeding. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sowing. 29. Agriculture is which type of activity? A) Secondary. B) Primary. C) Tertiary. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Primary. 30. Which of the are physical inputs needed for agriculture? A) Labor. B) Machinery. C) Fertilisers. D) Maintenance. E) Soil. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Soil. 31. In economic activity the agriculture is divided into how many parts? A) 2. B) 3. C) 5. D) 4. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 3. 32. Leading producers of coffee A) Russia. B) Brazil. C) India. D) China. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Brazil. 33. Places where nomadic herding is practiced: A) Parts of northern Australia. B) South east europe. C) USA. D) Sahara. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sahara. 34. Which is the scientific cultivation of fruits and flowers. A) Mixed Farming. B) Horticulture Farming. C) Orchard Farming. D) Plantation Farming. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Horticulture Farming. 35. Wheat can be grown in Tropical Regions A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 36. Advertising is an example of activities. A) Primary activity. B) Secondary activity. C) Tertiary activity. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tertiary activity. 37. Millets need sandy soils and high temperatures A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 38. What is the breeding of fish known as? A) Sericulture. B) Agriculture. C) Pisciculture. D) Viticulture. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pisciculture. 39. The Farmers of ..... highly depends upon labour's for growing wheat and rice A) Madhya pradesh. B) Punjab. C) Rajasthan. D) Bengal. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Punjab. 40. This form of agriculture modifies the land by cutting terraces into the sides of hills and then flooding the area. A) Mediterranean Farming. B) Commercial Gardening. C) Wet Rice Dominant. D) Plantation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Wet Rice Dominant. 41. This form of agriculture is declining due to commercial logging of the rainforest and land being used for ranching. A) Wet rice not dominant. B) Shifting cultivation. C) Plantation. D) Dairy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Shifting cultivation. 42. Planting of seeds in soil is A) Sowing. B) Seedling. C) Tilling. D) Harvesting. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sowing. 43. Who was the president of the United States that was from Plains, Georgia? A) Ie whitney. B) George Bush. C) Jimmy Carter. D) John Deere. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Jimmy Carter. 44. Banking is an example of ..... activity A) Secondary. B) Primary. C) Tertiary. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tertiary. 45. The ultimate aim of agricultural development is to increase ..... A) Farming. B) Plantation agriculture. C) Food security. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Food security. 46. Which of the following crops grows well in the black soil? A) Rice. B) Jute. C) Cotton. D) Wheat. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cotton. 47. Horticulture means A) Growing fruits and vegetables. B) Primitive farming. C) Growing grapes. D) Growing wheat. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Growing fruits and vegetables. 48. In which region Growing Season is shorter A) Equatorial Regions. B) Tropical Region. C) Temperate Regions. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Temperate Regions. 49. These are the substitute crops planted too late for regular crops or after the regular crops has failed. A) Silage crops. B) Catch crops. C) Cover crops. D) Foliage crops. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Catch crops. 50. To which sector agriculture activities associated. A) Primary activity. B) Secondary activity. C) Tertiary activity. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Primary activity. 51. The word "Agriculture" is derived from which word? A) Latin. B) Chinese. C) German. D) Dutch. E) Greek. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Latin. 52. Out of the following which is not a cropping season of India? A) Rabi. B) Kaffir. C) Zaid. D) Kharif. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Kaffir. 53. Favourable topography of soil and ..... are vital for agricultural activity. A) Vehicles. B) Seeds. C) Climate. D) Earthworms. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Climate. 54. Cutting of plants in large scale is called A) Deforestation. B) Aforestation. C) Kforestation. D) None. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Deforestation. 55. What is the full form of HYV seeds? A) Himalayan Yielding Variety. B) High Yielding Variety. C) High Yellow Variety. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) High Yielding Variety. 56. What is the rearing of silkworms for the production of silk is called? A) Sericulture. B) Horticulture. C) Agriculture. D) Fish farm. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sericulture. 57. Tapioca is a crop grow in A) Livestock RANCHING. B) Shifting Agriculture. C) Extensive Agriculture. D) Nomadic Herding. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Shifting Agriculture. 58. In India how much population are engaged in agriculture activity. A) 52 percent. B) 53 percent. C) 55 percent. D) 54 percent. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 52 percent. 59. Which of the following country is a leading producer of rice? A) China. B) Egypt. C) Pakistan. D) Malaysia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) China. 60. Classification of plant which life cycle is completed in one season only. A) Perennial. B) Annual. C) Biennial. D) Seasonal. 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