ICSE Worksheet for Chapter - 1 Crop Production and Management Class 8

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Find ICSE Worksheet for chapter-1 Crop Production and Management class 8

1. CLASS-8
2. BOARD: ICSE
3. BIOLOGY Worksheet - 1
4. TOPIC: Crop Production and Management
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1. Select the correct word from the following list and fill in the blanks :
   float, water, crop, nutrients, preparation
   1. The same kind of plants grown and cultivated on a large scale at a place is called __________.
   2. The first step before growing crops is __________ of the soil.
   3. Damaged seeds would __________ on top of water.
   4. For growing a crop, sufficient sunlight and __________ and from the soil are essential.
2. Match items in column A with those in column B.
3. Which of the following crops would enrich the soil with nitrogen?
   1. Banana
   2. Wheat
   3. Potato
   4. Pea
4. Animal husbandry deals with
   1. Increase in milk production
   2. Utilization of animal waste in farming
   3. Production of animals against disease
   4. All of these
5. Rotation of crop is essential for
   1. Getting variety of crops
   2. Removal of weeds
   3. Increasing fertility of soil
   4. All of these
6. Which manure is called organic manure?
7. What is ‘combine’?
8. Name two methods of irrigation which conserve water.
9. Write three differences between manure and fertilizers
10. Write correct sequence of steps undertaken for farming.

Solutions: to worksheet-1  Topic-  Crop Production and Management

1. Select the correct word from the following list and fill in the blanks:
   1. Crop
   2. Preparation
   3. Float
   4. Water, nutrients
2. Match items in column A with those in column B.
   1. e
   2. d
   3. b
   4. c
3. (d) Pea
4. (d) All of these
5. (d) All of these
6. The manure which is made up of organic plant and animal waste is called organic manure.
7. ‘Combine’ is a machine used to perform harvesting and threshing of a crop.
8. Drip and Sprinkle system of irrigation conserve water.
9. • Fertilizers are commercially available plant nutrients which are generally in organic in nature they are specific in action and can be added according to plant requirement. Sodium nitrates, urea, ammonium phosphates, NPK, potash are the most commonly used chemical fertilizers.
   • In comparison to fertilizer, manure is prepared by the decomposition to fertilizer, manure is prepared by the decomposition of plant and animal waste and hence it is organic in nature. It enriches the soil by adding humus to it, and increases it water retention capacity.
10. The correct sequence of steps undertaken in forming are :-
    1. Soil preparation
    2. Sowing of seeds
    3. Adding manures and fertilizers
    4. Irrigation
    5. Protection from weeds
    6. Harvesting of crops
    7. Storage of grains