Crop Sci
Crop Sci
Crop Sci
The concept of basic and nutritious food being available accessible, affordable and stable in supply
a. Food availability
b. Food security
c. Food safety
d. Food accessibility
2. A food production strategy in the 1960’s and 70’s designed to solve problems related to population explosion
and world hunger by introducing new farm technologies including modern varieties, pesticides, fertilizers,
irrigation and machines
a. Sustainable agriculture
b. Green revolution
c. Masagana 99
d. Gintong ani
3. A plant belonging to the grass family which has a very extensive root system and is effective as soil stabilizer
a. Corn
b. Vetiver
c. Lemon grass
d. Napier grass
4. The temperature, sunlight, humidity and other climatic conditions in a small localized area
a. Climate
b. Weather
c. Microclimate
d. None of the above
5. The practice of gradually exposing the seedlings to sunlight before field planting in order to minimized
transplanting shock is
a. Balling
b. blocking
c. hardening
d. sun bleaching
6. Practices of providing support to viny plants to keep the stem, leaves and fruits away from the soil and to allow
better exposure to sunlight
a. Supporting
b. Trellising
c. Staking
d. Propping
7. This refers to the practice of removing unnecessary suckers from the base of banana to minimize competition
among the remaining suckers
a. Flower induction
b. Fruit induction
c. Flowering thinning
d. Desuckering
8. A method of harvesting in which only matured or ripe fruits or pods are harvested is called
a. Stripping
b. tapping
c. tuxying
d. priming
9. The process of extracting latex from a tree or fruit is called
a. Tuxying
b. tapping
c. stripping
d. priming
10. Which of the following does not require threshing
a. Rice
b. corn
c. mungbean
d. soybean
11. Which of the following require fermentation during primary processing
a. Cotton
b. cacao
c. coconut
d. abaca
12. For longer shelf life perishables should not be stored under
a. Low oxygen
b. Low temperature
c. Low relative humidity
d. High CO2
13. Planting materials that are most applicable to most agronomic crops and vegetable crops
a. Stem
b. leaves
c. seeds
d. corms
14. What technique refers to a plant grown with the main crop, attracts the pest, but not suitable for their growth
and reproduction (e.g eggplant with tomato)
a. Repellant crop
b. Decoy
c. Natural enemies attractants
d. Trap crop
15. What technique refers to growing of flowering plants at strategic places in the field
a. Repellant crop
b. Decoy
c. Natural enemies attractants
d. Trap crop
16. Which of the following does not have modified stem
a. Ginger
b. Pineapple
c. Banana
d. Sweet potato
17. Aerial plantlets formed on the axis of the leaves or flower stalk of an Agave are called
a. Bulbils
b. bulblets
c. offsets
d. tuber
18. You have 15,000 seedling of Cacao and you are instructed to plant it with the distance of 118.08 inch. apart.
Compute the total area in hectare to be planted using the square planting pattern.
a. 135,000 sq.m.
b. 13.5 Ha.
c. 135 Ha.
d.1.35 Ha.
19. You have 1,300 seedling of Cacao and you are instructed to plant it in a 1.5 ha. Compute the distance of
planting using the square planting pattern.
a. 4.0 m
b. 3.0 m
c. 4.5 m
d. 3.5 m
20. You are instructed to plant 3 water melon seedlings per hill, with a distance 2 m by 3.28 ft apart. How many
seedlings can be planted for 2.5 Has farm? Use the formula P.D. = (A/d1*d2)* NPh, where: P.D.- Planting Density,
A-Area, d1-distance of plant per hill, d2- distance of plant per row, NPh- number of plant per hill
a. 37, 500
b. 3,750
c. 375,000
d. 375
24. This type of dormancy is due to one or more unsuitable factors of the environment which are non-specific in
their effect. In seeds this is equivalent to quiescence.
a. Paradormancy
b. Endodormancy
c. Ecodormancy
d. Chemical dormancy
25. Reduction in the amount of green pigments in leaf, resulting to yellowing:
a. Chlorosis
b. Necrosis
c. Autolysis
d. Dialysis
26. The natural termination of the functional life of an organ, organism or other life unit which is also regarded as
the final phase in plant development:
a. Deterioraton phase
b. Abscission phase
c. Senescence
d. Growth inhibition
27. Photoperiodism is a growth response to unidirectional light which is probably influence by a particular growth
hormone
a. Abscissis acid (ABA)
b. Indole acetic acid (IAA)
c. Kinetic (Ki)
d. Gibberellins (GA)
28. The growth response of plant to touch that is est exemplified by the coiling of tendrils as in Cucurbits:
a. Thermotropism
b. Seismopasty
c. Thigmotropism
d. Thigmomorphogenesis
29. Senescence is an energy-requiring process brought about by metabolic changes, one of thich is the destruction
of the pigments:
a. Carotenoid
b. Xanthophyll
c. Anthocyanin
d. Chlorophyll
30. The organ movement such that the axis of the organ come to lie at right angles to the direction of the
gravitational field as exhibited by stolon of potato and strawberry
a. Herliotropism
b. Plagiogeotropism
c. Diagravitropism
d. Thermonasty
31. Domestication of plants due to:
a. Change in plant type and limited ecological adaption
b. Narrower genetic variation and wider ecological adaptation
c. The disappearance of the natural habitats of wild plants
d. None of the above
32. The following changes in plants are attributed to domestication EXCEPT
a. Loss of seed dormancy
b. Increased susceptibility to disease
c. Conversion
d. Increased environmental adaptation
33. Oxygen as one of the products of photosynthesis evolves from:
a. The oxidation of H2O
b. Photolysis of H2O
c. The reduction of CO2
d. The reduction of H2O
34. Both photosynthetic and respiration rates are influenced by
a. Relatively humidity and CO2 concentration
b. Oxygen concentration
c. Temperature and CO2 concentration
d. Temperature and relative humidity
35. Respiration is a necessary evil in plants because
a. It breaks down glucose which should have been used in the synthesis of complex compounds
b. It leads to the loss of glucose but generates metabolic energy and organic compounds that are used in the
synthesis of structural and storage compounds
c. It generates CO2 and H2O and ATP
d. It generates heat energy for transpiration
36. The rapid industrialization cause the increase in value of agricultural lands near population center, resulting
into
a. Large scale reduction of our forested lands
b. Massive movement of work forces to other countries
c. Massive land conversion of farm lands
d. Excessive garbage problem
37. The three major crops of the Philippines in terms of land area cultivated are
a. Abaca, rice and coconut
b. Corn, abaca and banana
c. Rice, corn and coconut
d. Banana, sugarcane and coffee
38. Self-sufficiency (annual) in rice in the Philippines
a. Had never been attained
b. Is impossible because of high population
c. Had been achieved before
d. Is possible because IRRI is in the Philippines
44. A farm laborer is instructed to plant cacao seedlings with a distance of 6.28 ft apart. Using the formula
P.D. =A/d2. How many Cacao seedlings can he planted for 5 Has farm?
a. 12,500
b. 1,250
c. 125, 000
d. 125
50. The best type of plating materials for crops like cereals and field legumes are
a. Sexual
b. Asexual
c. root cuttings
d. Tissue cultured plants
51. Because of
a. Planting materials are easy to produce, inexpensive and have hybrid vigor
b. Ture-to-type and early planting
c. Expensive for high density planting
d. Late bearer and no incompatibility
56. Knowing the economics of irrigation the crops the correct statement is
a. Natural rainfall could be enough for coconut and mango
b. Pump irrigation is resorted for low value crops in greenhouse
c. Upland rice is irrigated by overhead method
d. Generally vegetables are irrigated by flooding
58. The process of removing dead and diseased parts from healthy plant is called
a. Rejuvenate pruning
b. Corrective pruning
c. Preventive pruning
d. Formative pruning
81. The root crops like ube and gabi are propagated commercially by
a. Suckers
b. Division
c. Root cuttings
d. Runners
82. Sugarcane are propagated commercially by stem cuttings and irrigated by furrow and overhead method.
Integrated farming with sugarcane could be
a. sugarcane with livestock
b. intercropping with rice
c. fishery and sugarcane
d. relay cropping with coconut
83. Special practices in the contr
ol of pest of mango in Cebu and Iloilo is by
a. Spraying the fruits with Malathion
b. Smudging by burning dried leaves before flowering
c. Bagging the fruits individually with paper bag
d. Pruning
84. Irrigation for sugarcane and corn could be by furrow or overhead method. The most appropriate irrigation
method for greenhouse crops that could incorporate fertilizer nutrients is by
a. Overhead irrigation
b. Flooding
c. Drip irrigation
d. Furrow irrigation
85. Grape culture requires support of trellis like other vine crops. it is induced to flower by
a. Irrigation
b. Chemical spraying of calcium carbide
c. Smudging
d. Pruning
86. Because crop production/farming is a regular activity of rural people and without it they will never have a
normal life, farming is considered a
a. Business
b. art
c. technology
d. culture ( a way of life)
87. Trade liberalization could lead to declining demand for locally grown products as manifested by
a. Increasing tendency to buy imported fruit products
b. Greater desire of balikbayan to buy traditional native products
c. Greater utilization of modern technologies
d. Television advertising and computer marketing
88. The increasing interest in the use of organic foods and traditional medicine is due top the public perception or
belief that
a. Natural products are harmful and than those produce with synthetic inputs
b. Natural products are cheaper in the market
c. Foods produced using chemical (synthetic fertilizers and pesticides) always have harmful residues
d. Foods produced without pesticide and synthetic fertilizer are safer
89. A method of asexual propagation in which organ(s) is allowed to generate on detached vegetative part of the
plant
a. Marcotting
b. cutting
c. budding
d. grafting
90. Cucumber will be planted 2 seedlings per hill. With the distance of 2 feet between rows and 3 feet between
hills. How many cucumber seedlings will be planted in a 2.5 ha farm?
a. 90,073.86
b. 90,074
c. 9,007
d. 900,734
91. This type of dormancy is due to one or more unsuitable factors of the environment which are non-specific in
their effect. In seeds, this is equivalent to quiescence.
a. Paradormancy
b. Endodormancy
c. Ecodormancy
d. Chemical dormancy
92. Plant response to seasonal variations in the length of day are collectively known as
a. Vernalization
b. photoperiodism
c. circadian rhythm
d. morphogenesis
93. These plant organisms need to be supplied only with inorganic substances since they make their own organic
substances
a. Heterotrophic organisms
b. Accumulators
c. Autotrophic organisms
d. Eukaryotic organism
94. In grafted plant, the lower portion of the graft union that became the root system is called
a. Rootstock
b. Roots
c. Scion
d. Interstock
95. The practice of growing a new crop out of shoot arising from the previous crops is called
a. Replanting
b. Re-cropping
c. Rationing
d. Rejuvenation
96. The arrangement of individual soil practices into compound particles or aggregates which normally determines
the water holding capacity and drainage quality of the soil
a. Soil structure
b. Soil texture
c. Soil aggregation
98. This refers to the judicious removal of plant parts to attain specific purpose
a. Thinning
b. Pruning
c. Training
d. Rejuvenating
99. Which of the following is NOT among the objectives of pruning?
a. To dwarf the plant
b. To increase the volume of canopy
c. To maintain desired canopy shape
d. To rejuvenate an old tree
100. Crops that normally have short shelf-life due to rapid deterioration
a. Durables
b. Semi-perishables
c. Perishables
d. Non-perishables