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Form 1 Agriculture Term 1 2018 Question Paper

Form 1 Agriculture Term 1 2018

Course:Agriculture

Exam Year:2018

BIWOTT SECONDARY SCHOOL END OF TERM EXAMINATION
AGRIC TERM 1 FORM 1
NAME……………………………………………………………………………………………..CLASS…………ADM NO………….……….
1. Define the term agriculture [2mks]
2. Give five importance of soil to crop to plants [5mks]

3. State any four disadvantages of intensive system of farming [ 4mks]
4. Give four types of soil structure in Agriculture. [ 4mks]
5. State one characteristics of plantation farming [1mks]

6.Name four characteristics of clayer soil [4mks]

7 . Define the following terms as used in crop production. (10mkS)
(a) crop pathology ………………………………………………………………………
b] Olericulture………………………………………………………………………
c] agricultural economics………………………………………………………………………………………………….
d] Apiculture…………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
E] soil profile ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
8. State five effects of wind in agriculture [5mks]

9.State four conditions under which shifting cultivation is practicable. [4mks]

10. State two factors that would determine the colour of soil . [ 2mks]

11.What are four advantages of practicing mixed farming [ 4mks] ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

12. State and explain FIVE biotic factors in agriculture [10MKS]

13.What is overall effects of HIV/AIDS and ill health affect agriculture [6mk]

14. Differentiate between olericulture and aquaculture (2 marks )

15 State and explain.Explain FIVE importance of agriculture to the Kenyan economy [10mks]

16. List four factors influencing soil formation (4mks]

17.a] Differentiate between superfluous water and capillary water [2mks]

18. Draw the following soil structure ( 10 mks)
(a) Granular soil structure

(b) Single grained soil structure

(c)Platy soil structure

(d) Prismatic soil structure

(e) Blocky soil structure

19.draw the comparison capillarity action action of sandy,loamy,and clay soils [ 4mks]

20. State six human factors that influences agriculture 6mks]

Form 1 Agriculture Term 1 2018 Question Paper

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