TECHNOLOGY AND LIVELIHOOD EDUCATION 7/8

SECOND PERIODIC TEST

CROP PRODUCTION

Name: ______________________________________Grade & Section: ___________________ Date: ______Score: ____

DIRECTIONS: Read each item carefully. On your answer sheet, shade the letter that corresponds to the best answers.
1. Which tool is used for cutting plant materials?
A. axe B. bolo C. sickle D. pruning shears
2. Which farm tool is used for harvesting grains?
A. axe B. bolo C. knife D. sickle
3. What tool does NOT belong to the group?
A. Crowbar B. Mattock C. Harrow D. Shovel
4. What will Lito do if he gets a spading fork in the garage?
A. check the list B. dig out root crops
C. perform inter row cultivation D. remove trash from the garden
5. Mang Pedro who has a farm in the mountain will till his land. He will use _______.
A. disc harrow B. disc plow C. native wooden harrow D. rotavator
6. Pepito’s father asked him to get the spade and help him with what he’s doing. What is the activity of Pepito’s father?
A. cultivating the soil B. cleaning the ground
C. digging canal D. transplanting
7. Which farm equipment is used to pull a disc plow in preparing a not so big area of land?
A. four wheel tractor B. hand tractor C. rotavator D. water pump
8. Common farm equipment must be used carefully; therefore, an operator should be _____.
A. college graduate B. highly skilled C. skilled D. valedictorian
9. Mang Kanor will prepare his half hectare vegetable farm. What farm equipment will he used to pull his plow?
A. four wheel jeep B. thresher C. rotavator D. four wheel tractor
10. “Farm tools and equipment are regularly sharpened and waxed from time to time.” This preventive maintenance
standard should be done ______.
A. always B. never C. often D. seldom
11. For all the tools and materials which are already worn out, what is the best thing to do?
A. keep it on the garage B. fix it C. sell it on the junk shop D. use it again
12. To maintain tools to work as intended this substance is used and applied during cleaning.
A. grease B. oil C. powder D. soap
13. Which tool is used for hauling water, manure and fertilizers?
A. drum B. pail C. sprinkler D. wheelbarrow
14. In using the shovel, what is the initial step you are going to do?
A. keep feet wide apart B. shift weight to rear foot
C. turn feet on direction of flow D. use leg to push shovel
15. In estimating farm inputs, the following data must be determined except ______.
A. labor force B. area C. crop D. age of crop
16. Which of the following formulas is used to calculate surfaces of a triangle?
A. A=bxh B. A=0.5xbxh C. A=0.5xLxW D. A=LxW
17. 1.5hectare=_______m2
A. 150 000 m2 B. 1 500 m2 C. 15 000 m2 D. 0.1500 m2
18. 12.3 m3_______liters
A. 12 000 liters B. 1 230 liters C. 15 000 liters D. 0.1500 liters

19. It is the volume of water discharged during a given period of time.

A. flow rate B. volume of water C. water depth D. water flow
20. A trapezium’s surface area may be computed using what formula?
A. A=0.5(bxa)h B. A= 0.5 b+2) h C. A= A1 + A2 + A3 D. A=A1 x A2 x A3
21. Dino cleaned their backyard with a length of 10 cm and 7 m wide for his garden. What is the surface area of the
garden?
A. 70 000m2 B. 7 000m2 C. 700 m2 D. 70 m2
22. Len-len put up a circular flower garden in front of their house with a diameter of 2.4m. What is the surface area?
 A. 4.521m2 B. 45.21m2 C. 452.1m2 D. 4 521m2
23. Are right angle
A. 1 only B. 1 & 2 C. 2 & 3 D. all of the above
24. It is the basic unit area in the metric systems
A. cm2 B. mm2 C. m2 D. dm2
25. A. river discharges 84m3 of water to the sea every 2 seconds. What is the flow rate of this expressed in L/m3
A. 2520 l/m3 B. 2.520 l/m3 C. 25.20 l/m3 D. 252.2 l/m3
26. Jen was asked to get 25% of the 80 apples on the table. How many apples will she be able to get?
A. 15 apples B. 20 apples C. 25 apples D. 30 apples
27. Hectare = ________
A. 2 500 m2 B. 1 000 m2 C. 10 000 m2 D. 7 500 m2
28. Lucas is asked to compute the surface area of the wetted canal cross-section. He has already given the measurement
of base and water depth to determine the top line, he will measure
A. bottom width of canal B. top width of canal
C. top width of water level D. bottom width of the water level
29. As applied in conventional horizontal farming or gardening is a system of growing crops in a linear pattern in at least
one direction rather than planting without any distinct arrangement.
A. Intercropping B. Inter rows planting C. Row planting D. Scatter planting
30. Is the systematic apportioning of the farm area or any growing surface for crop production?
A. Intercropping B. Row planting C. Scatter planting D. Spatial arrangement
31. Which of the following is not a type of spatial arrangement of planting?
A. hexagonal B. quincunx C. rectangular D. triangular
32. The planting arrangement wherein two or more crops are grown in the same piece of land.
A. Intercropping B. multiple cropping C. Row planting D. Scatter planting
33. The advantage of using the multiple cropping
A. for more number of plants B. for higher yield
C. maximize the use of vacant spaces D. to create better planting layout
34. Which of the following crops can be planted using the “sabog tanim” method?
A. beans and corn B. eggplant and mustard
C. mung bean and rice D. winged bean and petchay
35. What are the different considerations in using the broadcasting method of planting?
A. germination percentage B. seeding rate C. skill in throwing the seeds D. B and C
36. Dibbling is usually use in planting where the area is
A. hilly B. Lowland C. mountainous D. plain
37. Small seeded vegetables are usually planted through
A. direct planting B. indirect planting C. multiple cropping D. sabog tanim
38. Corn is planted through dibbling in about how many seeds per hill?
A. 1 – 2 B. 3 – 4 C. 5 – 6 D. 7 – 8
39. Given the seeding rate of 100 kg per hectare in rows of 20 cm apart, the calculated average seeding rate per linear
meter in the row is
A. 2 grams B. 4 grams C. 6 grams D. 10 grams
40. Mang Isko planted his 2 hectares farm with corn and peanut in replacement series. What arrangement did he use in
his row planting?
A. Broadcasting B. Monocropping C. Multiple cropping D. Sole cropping
41. It is likely that a hazard will cause injury.
A. chemicals B. exposure C. hazard D. risk
42. Safe management chemicals involves
1. Correct leveling
2. Provision of safety data sheet
3. Safe transport
A. 1&2 B. 2&3 C. 1&3 D. 1,2 & 3
43. Surface irrigation system allows water applied to the field in the form of system
A. direct to the crop B. Either the controlled or uncontrolled manner
C. Slow rate of water application D. Spray
44. Fixed pumping plant is included in what type of conventional sprinkler system?
A. Fully portable system B. Fully permanent system
 C. Semi-portable system D. All of the above
45. This includes floors, stairs, work platforms, steps, ladders, fire, falling objects, slippery surfaces, manual handling,
excessively loud and prolonged noise, vibration, heat and cold, radiation, poor lightning, ventilation, air quality
A. chemicals B. mechanical/electrical C. psychosocial environment D. physical
46. It is the practices related to production and work process
A. biological B. occupational safety C. psychosocial environment D. safety
47. Which of the following is a specific function of farm irrigation?
A. Conveying the system on the top part of the field
B. Heating crop to the soil
C. Protecting crops from physiological damages
D. Providing a means for measuring and regulating flows
48. In surface irrigation, water of the irrigation system is designed as ______.
A. applied to the field either controlled or uncontrolled manner
B. conveyed through pipes and applies it with minimum amount of losses
C. moved from one field to another or other pumping sites
D. all of the above
49. The water supplied by a pump fills a drum of 300 liters in 15 seconds. What is the flow rate of this pump?
A. 10L/s B. 15L/s C. 20L/s D. 30L/s
50. A. river discharges 84m3 of water to the sea every 2 seconds. What is the flow rate of this expressed in L/m3
A. 2520 l/m3 B. 2.520 l/m3 C. 25.20 l/m3 D. 252.2 l/m3

Table of Specification
Technology and Livelihood Education 7/8
Periodic Test
CROP PRODUCTION

No.
No. of
Objectives of Remembering Understanding Applying Analyzing Evaluating Creating
Items
Days

Use farm tools and 6,7,8,9,10,11,

10 14 1,2,3,4.5
equipment 12,13,14

Perform 20,21,
28
estimation and 11 14 `5,18,17 18,19 22,23 24,25 26,27
basic calculation

Interpret plans and 40

8 11 29,30 31,32,33,34, 36 37 38,39
drawings

Apply Safety
Measures in Farm 8 11 41,42 43,44 45,46 47 48,49
50
Operations

Total 37 50