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WorksheetsQuiz on Agriculture and Science
Total questions: 69
Worksheet time: 35mins
Agriculture is mainly concerned with:
Cooking food
Growing crops and rearing animals
Selling goods in the market
Building houses
Which of the following is an importance of agriculture?
Produces machines
Provides food and raw materials
Manufactures clothes
Builds bridges
Agriculture helps a country by:
Making soil disappear
Providing employment
Destroying forests
Reducing rainfall
Which of these is NOT a product of agriculture?
Maize
Rice
Iron
Yam
What is the primary aim of agriculture?
To discover planets
To feed people
To build roads
To explore the sea
One importance of agriculture is that it:
Produces drugs for diseases
Supplies raw materials for industries
Teaches mathematics
Invents electricity
Livestock farming involves:
Mining
Keeping animals
Growing trees
Building factories
Which of these provides cotton for making clothes?
Cocoa
Cotton plant
Yam
Mango
Agriculture helps trade by:
Producing goods for exchange
Inventing aeroplanes
Building ships
Teaching science
The branch of agriculture concerned with growing crops is called:
Horticulture
Forestry
Crop farming
Animal husbandry
Agriculture began when early humans:
Started planting crops and rearing animals
Discovered fire
Learned to cook food
Invented the wheel
Early agriculture began around:
2 years ago
20 years ago
Thousands of years ago
A few months ago
The earliest form of agriculture was:
Use of tractors
Hunting and gathering
Planting with machines
Commercial farming
Which discovery marked the beginning of agriculture?
Fire
Stone tools
Planting seeds
Iron smelting
The origin of agriculture led humans to:
Travel by air
Settle in one place
Build tall buildings
Hunt forever
The earliest stage of human life was the:
Modern age
Stone age
Iron age
Bronze age
During the early stone age, people survived mainly by:
Farming
Hunting and gathering
Building houses
Keeping livestock
The middle stone age is called the:
Mesolithic age
Neolithic age
Iron age
Bronze age
The late stone age is also known as:
Paleolithic
Neolithic
Industrial
Modern
Farming began in which stage of the stone age?
Early stone age
Middle stone age
Late stone age (Neolithic)
Industrial age
Science can be defined as:
The study of stars
The systematic study of nature and its surroundings
The act of farming
The making of machines
Which of the following best describes science?
Guessing answers
Observation and experimentation
Playing games
Growing crops
Science helps us to:
Ignore nature
Understand the world around us
Avoid learning
Stop farming
One main feature of science is:
Magic
Belief without proof
Use of evidence
Guesswork
Science is mainly based on:
Opinions
Facts and evidence
Stories
Dreams
Which is the first step in scientific procedures?
Conclusion
Observation
Testing
Reporting
Scientists record their findings in a:
Song
Notebook
Picture book
Map
After an experiment, scientists usually:
Forget about it
Draw conclusions
Ignore results
Play games
A guess that can be tested in science is called a:
Theory
Hypothesis
Fact
Opinion
Which comes last in scientific procedures?
Hypothesis
Observation
Conclusion
Experiment
A person who studies animals is called a:
Botanist
Zoologist
Chemist
Engineer
A doctor mainly works in the field of:
Medicine
Chemistry
Physics
Botany
An engineer is concerned with:
Designing and building machines
Studying plants
Observing stars
Selling goods
A chemist studies:
Living things
Plants only
Matter and its changes
Animals only
Which of the following is a science-related occupation?
Farming
Singing
Painting
Acting
A hoe is an example of:
Modern tool
Traditional tool
Machine tool
Electrical tool
Tractors are used in:
Hunting
Modern farming
Traditional farming
Cooking
Cutlass is mainly used for:
Cutting crops and weeds
Building houses
Cooking food
Playing games
A combine harvester is a:
Traditional tool
Modern machine
Household tool
Scientific instrument
Traditional tools are usually:
More powerful than machines
Simple and manual
Expensive and heavy
Made of plastic
A doctor uses a:
Microscope
Tractor
Hoe
Spade
A farmer uses a:
Stethoscope
Cutlass
Test tube
Computer
A chemist uses a:
Hoe
Beaker
Cutlass
Axe
An engineer uses:
Spanner
Hoe
Stethoscope
Microscope
A geologist studies rocks using a:
Hammer
Needle
Stethoscope
Spoon
The scientific method involves:
Guessing and playing
Careful steps to find answers
Believing without proof
Using magic
Which step comes after making a hypothesis?
Experiment
Observation
Conclusion
Reporting
A scientist must always:
Use opinions only
Record results carefully
Ignore data
Forget experiments
A hypothesis should be:
Testable
Imaginary
Fixed forever
Based on luck
Scientific methods are important because they:
Help us find reliable answers
Make us dream
Create confusion
Teach guessing
Technology is best defined as:
The use of tools and knowledge to solve problems
The study of animals
Growing crops only
Observing stars
Which of these is an example of technology?
Hammer
Aeroplane
Mobile phone
All of the above
Technology helps people to:
Work faster and easier
Sleep longer
Avoid science
Forget farming
One importance of technology is that it:
Wastes time
Improves communication
Stops learning
Reduces knowledge
Modern technology has given us:
Computers and internet
Stone tools
Cutlass only
Old farming methods
Which is a life application of technology?
Cooking with gas stove
Using mobile phones
Driving cars
All of the above
Technology in medicine helps doctors to:
Sing
Cure diseases
Dance
Farm
One application of technology in communication is:
Farming
Telephone
Hoe
Cutlass
Education has improved through technology by:
Online learning
Printing books
Projectors
All of the above
In agriculture, technology has brought:
Tractors
Irrigation systems
Fertilizers
All of the above
What is the primary purpose of a scientific experiment?
To entertain
To test a hypothesis
To prove a theory wrong
To confuse others
Which of the following is a key component of the scientific method?
Observation
Belief
Intuition
Assumption
What is the main focus of environmental science?
Creating technology
Designing buildings
Understanding ecosystems
Studying human behavior
What is the primary goal of scientific research?
To sell products
To create art
To discover new knowledge
To entertain
Which of the following is a method used in scientific experiments?
Assuming
Guessing
Observation
Ignoring
Which of these is a renewable resource?
Wind
Plastic
Natural gas
Coal
Which of the following is a branch of science that studies the Earth?
Geology
Botany
Psychology
Physics
A person who studies plants is known as a:
Physicist
Botanist
Geologist
Zoologist
The process of testing a hypothesis is part of:
Philosophical debate
Scientific method
Artistic expression
Historical analysis
