Republic of the Philippines
Are domesticated plants
Region XI
Commission on Higher Education
Sto. Tomas College of Agriculture,
Sciences and Technology
Feeder Road 4, Brgy. Tibal-og, Sto.Tomas,
DDN, 8112, Philippines
Midterm Examination for CS – 10
(Fundamentals of Crop Science)
Multiple choice:
Instruction: Read and understand the
questions before choosing the correct answer
in the choices provided. Shade the letter of
your correct answers in your answer sheet.
1. What is the agricultural definition of
the word “ Crops”
a. A plant domesticated by man
for their economic value and
significant uses or purpose.
b. Any living organism that has an
economic value and significant
uses.
c. A plant intended for human
consumption and utilization.
d. A plant domesticated by man
for feeds or forage for their
animals.
2. Which of the following is the synonym
of term crop yield?
a. Secondary product
b. Field output
c. Agricultural output
d. Farmer’s output
3. Why we need higher yield surplus?
a. To maintained commodity price
in the market.
b. To have more livestock to feed,
maintained and established.
c. To sustain the life of the farmer
d. None of the above
4. Which one is the correct description of
cash crop?
a. Also called a non-food crop,
this crop is grown to produce
goods for manufacturing.
b. An agricultural crop which is
grown for sale to return a
profit.
c.
cultivated and harvested during
the rainy season.
d. A fast-growing crop that is
grown between the rows of a
main crop.
5. Which of the following is the
description of industrial crop?
a. Also called a non-food crop,
this crop is grown to produce
goods for manufacturing.
b. An agricultural crop which is
grown for sale to return a
profit.
c. Are domesticated plants
cultivated and harvested during
the rainy season.
d. A fast-growing crop that is
grown between the rows of a
main crop.
6. When to plant succeeding crop in relay
cropping technique?
a. Seedling stage
b. End of vegetative stage
c. Flowering stage
d. Ripening stage
7. In what way does the Cocos nucifera
classified as a fiber crop?
a. By eating the fruit in fresh.
b. By using the leaves as roof.
c. By using the coco coir as rope.
d. By uprooting the roots for
making rope.
8. When did Jatropha curcas can be
classified as cash crop and energy
crop?
a. When this crop are sold to a
profit and oil are extracted to
be a biofuel.
b. When this crop are consumed
by the farmer as wind breaker
and utilize as a biogases.
c. When this crop are sold for a
profit and stalks are utilize as
firewood.
d. When this crop are grown for
pesticide and protect soil from
erosion.
9. What is the right example of a kharif
crop?
a. Sunflower
b. Peanut
 c. Mungbean b. Organic farming means
d. Rice subsistence farming.
10. How would you classify plants as an c. Works in harmony of nature
energy crop? rather than against it.
a. If this crops can be utilize as a d. Organic farming means
raw materials for chemical inputs are use but in
manufacturing. a tolerable dose.
b. If this crops can be utilize as a 15. How would you assess the farm which
bio-fuel. adopted organic farming practice?
c. If this crops can be made to a. Non usage of chemical inputs.
cloth. b. Non usage of GMO ccrops
d. If this crop can be utilize for c. All inputs and outputs are
industrial purposes. recyclable causes no harm to
11. How cover crops manage soil erosion? the environment and the
a. By slowing the velocity of people who live in it.
rainfall before it contacts to the d. All of the above.
soil surface. 16. Which of the following is the example
b. By turning its leaves to a of a fiber crop?
nitrogenous material. a. Pineapple
c. By attracting many micro fauna b. Sunflower
to leave with it. c. Stringbean
d. By slowing ground water to d. Banana
penetrate soil surface. 17. What is the most common cover crops?
12. What is meant by monoculture? a. Trees
a. Only one methods to employ in b. Shrubs
a cultural practices of crops. c. Algae
b. Only one crop is grown in a d. Grass
given area throughout the 18. What is the best companion crop of
year. beans?
c. Growing several crops in one a. Onion
piece of land in one year. b. Garlic
d. Growing different crops in the c. Gladiolus
same area at different time. d. Most vegetable and herbs
13. What happened if the companion crops 19. Which of the following are the benefits
are not compatible with the main crop of multicropping?
in a multi-cropping system? a. Increase erosion control
a. It might damage the main crop b. Insurance against crop failure
or another crop by hosting pest c. Labor and harvesting are
and diseases that are spread more evenly.
distractive. d. All of the above
b. It compete essential resources 20. Which of the following are the
for growth and development. characteristic of a perennial crops?
c. It releases allelophathic effect a. It is harvested annually
that could suppress plant b. It is planted after main crop is
growth and development. harvested.
d. All of the above. c. Not being planted annually
14. What is meant by organic farming? d. Annual crops
a. Works in contrast with nature
for better agricultural output.
21. What is meant by a black market crop?
a. A crop that is restricted by a
government for sale and
marketed illegally by the
citizens.
b. A crop that is allowed for
market legally.
c. A crop in which there is a high
export value.
d. A crop which has no value at
all.
22. Which is true about Industrial crop?
a. Industrial crop is intended for
Food.
b. Industrial crop is a non-food
crop
c. Industrial crop is a crop used
to break impact of wind.
d. Industrial crop is a crop used
to fertilize main crop.
23. How many percent of oil can be
extracted in a 1 kilo of copra?
a. 60%
b. 50%
c. 40%
d. 30%
24. How would you describe subsistence
farming?
a. Farming for a profit
b. Farming for pasture and
grazing animals.
c. Farming for beautification
d. Farming for own consumption.
25. Which statement support that organic
farming are sustainable and echo
friendly technique in crop production?
a. Organic farming will give
agricultural product which
promote health and wellness of
the farmers.
b. Organic farming uses
recyclable inputs which all are
biodegradable and leaves no
lasting residue.
c. Organic farming will give low
production cost resulting to a
higher profit.
d. Organic farming are simple and
acceptable to the farmer.
26. What is the right inches depth of the
beds for planting in bio-intensive
farming?
a. 18
b. 24
c. 12
d. 36
27. How would you differentiate cash crop
and a catch crop?
a. A cash crop are crops grown
for a profit while catch crop are
fast growing plants which
planted in between rows and
are substitute to main crop.
b. A cash crops are crops grown
for a profit while cash crop are
for consumption.
c. A cash crop is grown for food
and feeds of the animals while
catch crop help in the
establishment of perennial
crops.
d. None of the above.
28. What is the main idea of organic
farming?
a. Lowering production cost.
b. Simple farming.
c. Sustainable agriculture.
d. Health and wellness.
29. How would you classify this cropping
pattern?
Mungbean + Corn + String
bean
a. Sequential cropping
b. Intercropping
c. Relay cropping
d. Fallow
30. What types of sequential cropping is
this?
Mungbean – Corn – String
bean
a. Double sequential cropping.
b. Triple sequential cropping.
c. Quadruple sequential cropping.
d. Ratooning
31. What facts or ideas shows when
farmers intercrop leguminous crop?
a. Leguminous crop fix its own
nitrogen preventing the
competition of nutrient.
b. Leguminous crop is a fast
growing crop and can be
harvested before main crop
matured.
c. Leguminous crop have higher
yield than non-leguminous
crop.
d. Leguminous crop is a host of
beneficial insect that can
pollenate other crop.
32. Which statement support that a corn
plant can be classified as a bio-fuel?
a. Corn is a good source of
ethanol through fermented
carbohydrates.
b. Corn can be a bio-diesel
through its oil content.
c. Corn can be used as a gas
biomass if ensiled to a
chamber.
d. Corn can be used as a firewood
by burning its stem.
33. How would you classify permanent
crops?
a. Those crop that last for many
season and mostly perennials.
b. Those crop that grows for
many seasons and totally cut
off when it will be harvested.
c. Those crop that are fast
growing compared to main
crop.
d. Those crop that help in the
establishment of perennials
crops.
34. What is meant by mix intercropping?
a. Planting of several crops in the
same piece of land with no
distinct arrangement.
b. Planting of several crops in the
same piece of land.
c. Growing of two or more crops
simultaneously where one or
more crops are planted in
rows.
d. Growing one crop in the same
area in one year.
35. What is the sign used in writing crop
sequence in relay cropping technique?
a. Minus sign (-)
b. Add sign (+)
c. Division Sign (/)
d. Multiplication sign (*)
36. How would you write the order of the
crop when farmers planted Soybean,
Corn, and Eggplant in sequential
cropping?
a. Soybean + Corn + Eggplant
b. Soybean - Corn - Eggplant
c. Soybean / Corn / Eggplant
d. Soybean * Corn * Eggplant
37. What would happen to the soil quality
if famers planted cover crops?
a. Soil organic matter increases.
b. Soil structure enhance.
c. Efficient water, and nutrient
holding capacity
d. All of the above
38. Which of the following crop is an
example of a leguminous crop?
a. Corn
b. Mungbean
c. Cabbage
d. Rice
39. Which statements best support the
practice of an organic farming?
a. Our farming system should not
create pollution or poison.
b. Our farming system should
intensifies through the use of
proper chemical inputs.
c. Our farming system should
utilize all technique for better
yield.
d. Our farming system should
recycled empty chemical
bottles for effective waste
disposal.
40. What is the better cropping system
could be used if the topography of the
soil is mountainous?
a. Slash and Burn
b. Monoculture
c. Multiculture
 d. Double sequential cropping
41. Which types of crop would you plant if
you want to assist the establishment of
a perennial crop?
a. Nurse crop
b. Cash crop
c. Fiber crop
d. Cash crop.
42. How is cash crop related to catch
cropping?
a. Most of the cash and catch
types of crop are annual.
b. They are both fast growing
crop.
c. They are marketed to return a
profit.
d. None of the above.
43. What is the theme of an organic
farming?
a. Sustainability
b. Profitability
c. Stability
d. Practicality
44. What are the parts of the crop that can
be classified as a vast fibers?
a. Stem and Skin of the crop
b. Leaves of the crop
c. Seed and fruits of the crop
d. Roots of the crop
45. What information would you check to
assist if they are totally adopting
organic farming?
a. The use of chemical inputs.
b. The usage of GMO’s
c. Sustainability
d. All of the above
46. What examples can you find to
describe perennial monoculture?
a. The plantation of banana
Cavendish.
b. Rice farming in barangays.
c. Vegetable farming in upland
areas.
d. Nothing in the locality describe
perennial farming.
47. How would you organise planting
pattern of strip cropping.
a. The different crops should be
arrange in rows.
b. The different crops should have
no distinct arrangement.
c. The Field should have only one
crop and arrange in row.
d. The field should be no other
crops except the main crop.
48. What would the result if the content
carbohydrates of a corn is extracted
and fermented?
a. It will become a bio-ethanol
fuel
b. It will become a bio diesel.
c. It will become a fertilizer.
d. It will convert into pesticide.
49. Choose the best statement that apply
the idea of bio-intensive farming?
a. Usage of compost, for the soil
health and vigor
b. Usage of empty plastic
container to grow a plant.
c. Usage of artificial light to grow
plants indoor.
d. Usage of water to grow plants
without soil.
50. What would be the result if the farmer
follow multi-cropping pattern?
a. Production will be low due to
interaction of different species.
b. Production will be at
equilibrium due to the
competition of resources.
c. Production will increase leading
to elevate income of the
farmers.
d. None of the above
51. What technique would you suggest if
the farmer wants to stop the used of
synthetic fertilizer?
a. Green manuring technique
b. Decomposed animal waste
c. Bio-fertilizer technique
d. All of the above
52. How would evaluate the farm if they
applied corn and tomato intercropping?
a. Corn and tomato are good
companions they will benefit
each other.
b. Corn and tomato are both none
leguminous crop they will not
compete resources at scarce.
c. Corn and tomato are bad
companions, tomato can be a
host of pest that will damage
corn plant.
d. Corn produce sucrose to fed
the good bacteria which can
supplied nutrient to tomato
plant.
53. How effective are the legumes to be a
companion to other crops?
a. Legumes can fix nitrogen
through a rhizobia bacteria, it
will not compete nutrient on
the companion crops.
b. Legumes are annual crops that
can be harvested before the
main crop matured.
c. Legumes are resilience it can
survive even in harsh condition
d. Legumes are highly
competitive with other plants it
can support companion crop
from weeds.
54. What are the consequences if the soil
are acidic?
a. The Soil could burn the plants
and can result stunted growth
if plant survive.
b. The Soil are productive and
could give enough nutrients for
plant utilization.
c. The macro and micro elements
cannot be available for plant
absorption due to the bonding
of metallic elements.
d. Nothing will be gain from the
crop if the soil is acidic.
55. What are the best alternatives of fossil
fuel?
a. Animal fats processed and
extracted to make a biofuel.
b. Water by separating hydrogen
from oxygen to become a fuel.
c. Fuel from an oil yielding crops
which have low cost to produce
and low harvest maintenance.
d. Fuel from outside the earth
that can be discovered soon.
56. How would you evaluate if the crop are
classified to industrial crop?
a. Parts are processed and
extracted to be a raw material
for manufacturing.
b. Parts are sold for cash.
c. Parts are utilized to become a
source of food
d. Parts are used to help establish
succeeding crop.
57. What could we done to minimize
pollution in the farm?
a. We should apply chemicals
which have lesser toxicity.
b. We should adopt organic
farming.
c. We should kept chemicals in a
proper way.
d. Do whatever you want this is a
free country.
58. What changes would you make to
correct this cropping pattern to make it
more efficient in terms of utilization of
nutrient, water and light?
“Corn+ Coconut+Ginger+Mungbean+
Soyabean + Coffee”
a. Coconut + Mungbean + Corn +
Ginger + Soyabean + Coffee.
b. Mungbean + Corn + Coffee +
Soyabean + Coffee.
c. Corn + Coconut + Soyabean +
Mungbean + Coffee.
d. All are true.
59. What could you done to maximize root
penetration of the crop deep in the
ground?
a. I will dig and replace aerated
and loosen soil double than the
height of the ruler.
b. I will fertilize double the
requirement of the plant.
 c. I will give water double than
the requirement.
d. I will cut the apical shoots to
let the roots develop deep in
the ground.
60. How could you motivate farmers to
change the old practice of agriculture
(conventional agriculture) into organic
farming?
a. I need to explain to them what
the consequences in continuing
the old practice is.
b. I need to motivate farmers by
explaining and showing what
benefits they can have on
organic farming in terms of
profit, health and wellness.
c. I need to show the advantages
on adopting organic farming.
d. I need to be part of organic
farming.

Prepared by:

JUN REL C. CHAVEZ LARRY L. REGIDOR, MSA ROWEL N. TIZON, LPT

Instructor I Instructor I Instructor I

Reviewed by: Approved

HANNAH R. MARIANO, MBA MICHAEL R. LUMANDO, MAEd

BSAB Program Head OIC-Vice President for Academic Affairs