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    ZERAKI ACHIEVERS’ EXAMINATIONS

    Term 2 - 2022
    AGRICULTURE
    (QUESTION PAPER)
    FORM ONE
    TIME: 1½ HOURS

    Name: …………………………………………………………. Adm No: ……………….


    School: ……………………………………………………….. Class: …………………..
    Signature: …………………………………………………….. Date:

    INSTRUCTIONS
     Answer All the question
     Write youe answera in the spaces provides

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    SECTION A (70 MARKS)

    1. State four advantages of mixed farming ( 4mks)


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    2. Outline the role of agriculture in the economu of Kenya1` ( 2mks)


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    3. Differentiate between and pomology ( 2mks)


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    4. State two ways in which agriculture contributes directly to the development of industries
    ( 2mk)
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    5. State four conditions under which shifting cultivation is practices ( 4mks)


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    6. List four major branches of agriculture ( 2mks)


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    7. Name four factors which determine the system of farming in a given place ( 4 mks)
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    8. State the most important aspects of the rainfall in a given area ( 2mks)

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    9. Give three harmfull effects of wind crop growth ( 3mks)


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    10. List three effects of soil organisms which benefit crop growth ( 3mk)

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    11. State two causes of hard pand in a crop field. ( 2mk)

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    12. The diagram below shows an experiment set up using soil types G,H anf J and observation
    made after 24 hours. Study the diagram and answer the quation that follow.

    a) What is the experiment represented above sedigned to study? ( 1mk)


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    b) Name the three soil types G, H and J ( 3mks)

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    c) What is the characteristics texture of soil types G and J ( 1mk)

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    d) State how the farmer would improve the structure of soil type G ( 1 mks)

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    13. State three advantages of adding organic matter to sandy soil ( 3 mks)
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    14. Name the tools or equivalent used for each of the following farm practices. (3 mks)

    a) Castrating bulls……………………………………………..
    b) Detecting matitis in lactating cows………………………
    c) Giving livestock drugs to kill worms……………………..

    15. What is the functional difference between a wood chisel and a cold chisel( 1mk)
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    16. State three maintenance practices that should be carried out on a wheelbarrow ( 3 mks)

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    17. List four tools used for laying concrete blocka when constructing a wall of a calf pen ( 2mks)

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    18. Give two used of a ball pein hammer ( 2mks)

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    19. Where in the body of livestock is the clinical thermometer placed? ( 1mk)

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    20. Give three conditiones under which a fork jembe would bemore suitable for use then an
    ordinary jembe. ( 3 mks)

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    21. Name four types of hand saws used when cutting wood ( 4mks)
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    22.Study the illustration of the farm tools shown below and answer the queations that follow

    a) Identify the tools labeled K,L,M,and N(4MKS )


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    b) Give use of each of the tools names in above ( 4mks)
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    23.Give four reasons for proper maintenance of farm tool and equipment ( 4mks)

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