SSC Geography quiz 16 September 11, 2018 September 11, 2018 Please enter your email: 1. Fertility of soil can be improved by : adding living earthworms adding dead earthworms removing living earthworms and adding dead earthworms removing dead earthworms 2. What is multiple cropping? Raising in succession only one type of crop in the same piece of land Dividing a field in two or more parts and then sowing different crops in each part When seeds are sown on a piece of land and then seedings are transplanted in different fields Raising two or more crops in succession in a year on the same land 3. Extensive subsistence agriculture is ; farming on the slopes of Western Ghats farming in the thickly populated areas farming in the forests of equatorial region farming in the thinly populated areas 4. Sucrose content in sugarcane decreases: if there is high temperature during the time of ripening if frost occurs during the process of ripening if there is fluctuation in temperature during the period of growth of the plant if high rainfall occurs during the period of growth of the plant 5. Which one of the following regions experiences three cropping season for rice in India Krishna-Godavari delta Brahmaputra valley Coastal Kerala Littoral Tamil Nadu 6. In which month are the kharif crops sown? September June November April 7. What type of farming is practised in the densely populated regions of the world? Commercial farming Plantation farming Extensive farming Intensive farming 8. The important feature of shifting cultivation is : rotating of crops cultivation of Leguminous crops cultivation by transplantation change of cultivation site 9. Mixed farming means: producing crops using mixture of manures and fertilizer growing different crops in succession growing two crops at the same time 10. Crop rotation refers to : growing same crop in alternate years farming done on the same land by different people turn-wise growing different crops in succession method of farming without irrigation in an area of limited rainfall Loading … Question 1 of 10 Share this:WhatsAppTelegramTweet Related