Accountancy, Financial Accounting-I


Exercises 

1. Select the correct word from the following list and fill in the blanks. 

                    float, water, crop, nutrients, preparation 

(a) The same kind of plants grown and cultivated on a large scale at a place is called _____________. 

(b) The first step before growing crops is _____________ of the soil.

(c) Damaged seeds would _____________ on top of water. 

(d) For growing a crop, sufficient sunlight and _____________ and _____________ from the soil are essential. 


 2. Match items in column A with those in column B. 

             A                                                      

(i) Kharif crops                             (a) Food for cattle 

(ii) Rabi crops                               (b) Urea and super phosphate 

(iii) Chemical fertilisers                (c) Animal excreta, cow dung urine and plant waste 

(iv) Organic manure                      (d) Wheat, gram, pea 

                                                       (e) Paddy and maize

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3. Give two examples of each. 

(a) Kharif crop 

(b) Rabi crop

 

4. Write a paragraph in your own words on each of the following. 

(a) Preparation of soil                (b) Sowing 

(c) Weeding                               (d) Threshing

 

5. Explain how fertilisers are different from manure. 

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6. What is irrigation? Describe two methods of irrigation which conserve water. 

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7. If wheat is sown in the kharif season, what would happen? Discuss.

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8. Explain how soil gets affected by the continuous plantation of crops in a field. 

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9. What are weeds? How can we control them? 

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10. Arrange the following boxes in proper order to make a flow chart of sugarcane crop production. 

Sending crop to sugar factory - 1        Irrigation - 2         Harvesting - 3          Sowing - 4

Preparation of soil - 5                 Ploughing the field - 6                 Manuring - 7


11. Complete the following word puzzle with the help of clues given below. 

Down 

1. Providing water to the crops. 

2. Keeping crop grains for a long time under proper conditions. 

5. Certain plants of the same kind grown on a large scale. 

Across 

3. A machine used for cutting the matured crop. 

4. A rabi crop that is also one of the pulses. 

6. A process of separating the grain from chaff.




Extended Learning — Activities and Projects 

1. Sow some seeds in the soil and arrange to water them by drip irrigation. Observe daily.

(i) Do you think it can save water? 

(ii) Note the changes in the seed. 


2. Collect different types of seeds and put them in small bags. Label them. 


3. Collect pictures of some other agricultural machines and paste them in a file. Write their names and uses.

 

4. Project Work Visit a farm, nursery or a garden nearby. Gather information about 

(i) importance of seed selection. 

(ii) method of irrigation

(iii) effect of extreme cold and extreme hot weather on the plants. 

(iv) effect of continuous rain on the plants. 

(v) fertilisers /manure used.