WEEKLY HOME LEARNING PLAN

Grade 10 – Quarter 3 - Week 8

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and Area Competency Delivery
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Exercise your body and energize your mind. Prepare to learn in this wonderful day!
Reading/Writing/Numeracy Activities in all learning areas to be provided by English, Filipino and Math teachers in all Grade levels

March TLE MELC SUMMATIVE TEST: Write your answer on an intermediate pad
4 - 8, (Horticulture) Have the parent
2022 Enabling Choose the LETTER of the correct answer hand-in the
Competencies 1. Which is NOT true about fertilizers? output to the
a. It is made up of decomposed plant and animal wastes. teacher in
b. It is a material added to the soil to supply plant food element. school.
c. It is an inorganic material of synthetic origin added to the soil to
1. minimize plant growth.
d. None of these.

2. Which of the following best describes an organic fertilizer?

a. It contains decomposed plant and animal wastes
b. It is any organic or inorganic material of any natural or
e. synthetic origin
c. It does not contain organic material
d. all of the above

3. The process of transferring the seedlings from the nursery to the field is
a. pricking
b. rouging
c. transplanting
d. hardening

4. The practice of gradually exposing the seedlings to full sunlight at least a week before
transplanting is
a. rouging
b. pricking
c. hardening
d. transplanting

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5. Which of the following is not a proper handling of planting materials?
a. lifting
b. trimming
c. mud pudding
d. hardening

6. Chemical compounds added to the soil to supplement plant nutrients are called
a. water
b. inducers
c. fertilizers
d. pesticides

7. The method of spraying fertilizer on the leaves of the plants is called______.

a. side dressing
b. foliar application
c. band application
d. broadcasting method

8. Which of the following is not an organic fertilizer?

a. compost
b. green manure
c. urea
d. bat manure

9. Which of the following is NOT true about pruning?

a. it controls the height, size and shape of the tree crown
b. it removes undesirable branches
c. it removes diseased branches and water sprouts
d. it prevents the new growth of shoots

10. What type of pruning is performed to retain the apical dominance of the remaining
branches?
a. heading-back
b. top pruning
c. thinning-out
d. blocking

11. Which chemicals are applied to fruit trees to promote flowering?

a. fertilizers
b. insecticides
c. inducers
d. pesticides

12. What is the traditional flower inducing method?

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 a. fertilizing
b. burning
c. smudging
d. smoking

13.What is the collective term that refers to all chemical materialsused to control and
destroy pests?
a. insecticide
b. pesticide
c. herbicide
d. fungicide

14. Which term refers to chemical compounds used to kill insects?

a. pesticides
b. fungicides
c. insecticides
d. nematocides

15. What is the method of controlling insect pests and diseases that
adopt a system of crop rotation?
a. genetic
b. chemical
c. biological
d. cultural

16. Which does not belong to the classifications of insecticides

according to formulation?
a. granules
b. wettable powder
c. stomach poisons
d. emulsifiable concentrate

17. How do stomach poisons kill insects?

a. entering through the alimentary canal
b. penetrating the body wall
c. entering through the respiratory system
d. translocation in the different insect body parts

18. What method of insect control is practiced by a farmer when he allows the existence of
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natural enemies of insect pests in his farm?
a. genetic
b. biological
c. chemical
d. cultural

19. Which of the following is a sucking insect?

a. termite
b. cutworm
c. mealy bug
d. white grub

20. Which of the following insects discharge foul odor and suck the sap of plants?
a. thrips
b. stink bugs
c. click beetle
a. d. branch twig borer

21. A fruit is ready to harvest when ________.

a. it is fully ripe
b. the color of its skin is attractive
c. it begins to fall on the ground
d. it shows maturity signs

22. Which of the following refers to the harvesting of fruits beyond the right time of
harvest?
a. premature harvesting
b. maturity
c. delayed harvesting
d. none of the above

23. Which of the following is NOT an index of maturity of fruits?

a. appearance of the fruit
b. age of the fruit
c. cracking of the skin
d. color of the skin

24. Harvesting at the right stage of maturity will __________.

a. ensure good quality of harvest
b. benefit the grower and consumer
c. increase marketability of fruits
d. all of the above

25. Mango fruits mature in ________ from flowering.

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 a. 90 to 100 days
b. 130 to 140 days
c. 90 to 120 days
d. 80 to 100 days

B. True or False. Write True if the statement is correct and False if itis wrong. Write your
answer in your quiz notebook.
__________26. Harvesting of fruit-bearing crops is done only by hand-picking.
__________27. Harvesting of fruits should be a little delayed if the intention is for seed
purposes.
__________28. Using appropriate materials in harvesting fruits is advisable to avoid
damages of fruits.
__________29. Delayed harvesting of fruits is advantageous to the farmer.
__________30. The distance of shipping fruits is a factor to be considered at the time of
harvesting.