EPWORTH MABVUKU TAFARA GRADE 7 FERM 3

AGRIC SCIENCE AND TECH

SECTION A
Answer all questions in this section in the spaces provided on the question paper

1a. Define the term Agriculture. [1]

b. Name any one branch of agriculture. [1]

c. State the benefit of Agriculture to the community. [1]

d. What is subsistence farming. [1]

e. Name any one career in agriculture. [1]

2 a. What is the shortest season in Zimbabwe? [1]

b. Explain global warming.[1]

5%

25%

45%
25%

c. Which soil component constitutes 5%. [1]

d. Briefly describe percolation. [1]

e. The main cause of erosion in winter. [1]

3 a.

Beans ?

Sunflower

a. Write the missing crop the above field crop rotation. [1]

(i) State one crop above which can be grown in an Agro-Forestry enterprise? [1]

a. Complete the following table

ANIMAL PRODUCT BY-PRODUCT

Rabbit ---------------------------- Pelts

Poultry Meat -----------------------------------

4. What is the function of incisor ? [1]

b. The digestive juice found in the stomach is called………. [1]

c. What is gestation period of human being? [1]

d. State one exotic method of preserving food. [1]

e. Give one example of a body-building food. [1]

5a. State one example of hardware maintenance on a computer.[1]

b. Give one example of a computer programme? [1]

 c.

b. This type of network topology (arrangement) is called …… [1]

c. What type of a hacker is illegal in companies. [1]

d. One type of network in the world which caters for one person in a building. [1]
 SECTION B
Answer any two questions from this section in the spaces provided

6. Give one example of animal driven machinery. [1]

b. How is a planter an efficient machinery. ? [1]

c. One fixed cost in Agri-business is ………… [1]

e. What is recorded in an inventory record. [1]

f. What is a farm budget ? [1]

7. Study the table below which shows income and expenditure on poultry project.

Input/ Expenditure Output/Income

Chicks 100 @$1 each 95 chicks @ $5 each

Feeders $4 Manure 10 buckets @ $1 each

Chemicals $3

Sawdust $4

Starter mash 1x50kg @ $30

Grower 2 x50 @ $29 each

Finisher 4x50kg @ $28 each

i. Calculate the total expense [1]

ii. Calculate the total income [1]

b. Did the farmer make profit or loss ? [1]

c. Calculate profit of loss. ?[1]

d. State one national market. [1]

8. Give one example of intensive housing system. [1]

b. An example of internal parasite in poultry is………………. [1]

c. One symptom of coicidiosis in agriculture. [1]

d. Yellowing and drying of the edges of the leaf indicates lack of ………….. nutrient. [1]
e. ………….. is an example of perennial crop. [1]

SECTION C
Answer any two questions from this section in the spaces provided

9 a. Write any one property of water [1]

b.Why do we glass to make windows ? [1]

c. What are sonorous metals.? [1]

d.The center of the atom is called ……… [1]

A is ………………………………………….. force. [1]

10. Define friction.[1]

b. The force that can pull objects that are made from iron is called……….[1]

c. What’s the difference between hydro and thermal electricity ? [1]

d. Sound travel through ………………………… [1]

f. Give one type of germination of a seed . [1]

11.

A
B

a. Line A is called ……………………………… [1]

b. A part followed by earth when revolving around the sun is called……… [1]
 c. Define perspiration. [1]

d. Which landform is useful to the farmers?. [1]

e. Why are plants called producers? [1]

SECTION D
Answer any one question from this section in the spaces

12. What is computer trouble shooting. [1]

b. Create a database table with the name of school in that database, create your name, age , sex and your
grade . [1]
c. Write an example of an email address. [1]

d. What is a strong air blower used for ? [1]

e.C.P.U stands for……….. ?

13. The icon M shows ………. [1]

b. Label the following logos

(i) [1] [1]

g.The other name for a graph is a …………. [1]

f. Give one use of spreadsheet [1]

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