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