Agricultural Power, Machinery and Mechanization

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1. A grain drill has 10 furrow openers spaced at a distance of 30 cm apart. What is the swath of the planter?
a. 30 cm b. 100 cm c. 130 cm d. 300 cm
2. It is the part of an engine where power can be taken to drive farm machineries.
a. Piston b. cylinder c. main shaft d. connecting rod
3. The drive wheels of a tractor have a loaded circumference of 1.75 m and turns at 20 rpm. If there is no
wheel slippage, what should be distance covered by the tractor after 5 minutes?
a. 175 m b. 35 m c. 8.75 m d. 100 m
4. The actual distance covered by the tractor (in the preceding item) after 3 minutes is 95 meters. What is the
wheel slippage in per cent?
a. 90.5 b. 9.52 c. 10.52 d. 10.0
5. This part on an internal combustion engine, which is connected to the crankshaft, absorbs the pressure
develop inside the cylinder through the piston face.
a. piston pin b. flywheel c. valve d. connecting rod
6. In the field calibration of a 10x40 cm grain drill, one hopper is filled with seeds and a bag is placed under its
seed tube. After a field distance of 500 m, 1.6 kg of seeds was collected. How much seeds should have
been collected if all the hoppers were filled with seeds and operated similarly?
a. 1.6 kg b. 16 kg c. 40 kg d. 100 kg
7. What is the seeding rate, in kg/ha, for the grain drill in the preceding item?
a. 16 b. 40 c. 80 d. 120
8. A rotavator can be classified as what type of tillage equipment?
a. primary tillage b. secondary tillage c. cultivator d. general purpose
9. The part of a moldboard plow that facilitates the cutting of the furrow slice is known as_______________.
a. frog b. beam c. share d. moldboard
10. Which of the following is not a unit of power?
a. hp b. pferde starke c. kw-hr d. N-m/s
11. What power application is usually utilized in lifting field machinery like plows or harrows?
a. rotary power b. hydraulic power c. solar power d. drawbar power
12. It is a field sprayer that is manually carried and operated by a farmer.
a. power sprayer b. mist sprayer c. knapsack sprayer d. boom sprayer
13. This refers to the general fragmentation of a soil mass resulting from the action of tillage forces.
a. soil reaction b. tillage c. pulverization d. compaction
14. In plowing rice fields, this is the area that is still unplowed.
a. land b. head land c. idle land d. furrow wall
15. It is a manner of hitching a harrow to a tractor where the full weight of the harrow is carried by the tractor
while in transport. For this set up, the tractor is equipped with hydraulic three-point hitch lift system.
a. tractor-mounted b. semi-mounted c. trailing d. self-propelled
16. The difference between the power developed inside the engine cylinder and the shaft power
is___________.
a. drawbar power b. indicated power c. brake power d. friction power
17. What is the cylinder bore of an engine with a piston displacement of 636.17 cc and stroke length of 100
mm?
 a. 90 mm b. 100 mm c. 120 mm d. 143 mm
18. What clearance volume, in cc, is needed in the preceding item to achieve a compression ratio of 1:16?
a. 70.7 b. 63.6 c. 42.4 d. 39.8
19. It is rice harvesting machine that cuts rice stalks and thresh at the same time.
a. windrower b. combine c. reaper d. stripper
20. A plow with 4 bottoms spaced 30 cm apart travels at 4 kph. What is the theoretical field capacity in ha/hr?
a. 4.8 b. 0.48 c. 1.2 d. 0.2
21. If the plow in the previous item was able to finish plowing a 7,200 square meter area in 2 hours, what is the
field efficiency in per cent?
a. 67 b. 75 c. 80 d. 85
22. This refers to the horizontal pull exerted by the tractor in operating field machines.
a. traction b. rolling resistance c. draft d. unit draft
23. In a 4-stroke cycle engine with four cylinders, how many revolutions of the crankshaft is the combustion
interval between two successive cylinders?
a. 2 b. 1 c. ½ d. ¼
24. Threshing through the use of the threshing drum and concave is principally accomplished by ___________?
a. impact b. friction c. stripping d. aspiration
25. A type of mechanical thresher where the rice stalks are either mechanically-or manually-held during the
threshing operation.
a. axial flow b. throw-in c. pedal-operated d. hold-on
26. In the operation of agricultural tractors, this strategy is adopted to increase the available torque in the drive
wheels without necessarily increasing the power being used.
a. speed reduction b. lubrication c. lugging d. all of a, b and c
27. A machine that cuts rice stalks and places them on a windrow where they are gathered and bound into
bales that can be carried to a thresher.
a. reaper b. ripper c. baler d. windrower
28. What part of a thresher facilitates the removal of chaffs and other light materials in order to have a output of
clean grains?
a. blower b. aspirator c. sieves d. all of a, b and c
29. A single-acting disk harrow travelling at 6 kph has a swath of 2 m. What is the actual field capacity, in ha/hr,
if the field efficiency is 60%?
a. 1.2 b. 2 c. 1.5 d. 0.72
30. For a farm machine, the total field time to cover a hectare is 90 minutes. Turning and other time loss is 25
minutes per hectare. What is the effective operating time in minutes?
a. 90 b. 25 c. 65 d. 85
31. What is the aggregate time spent (minutes) for operating on the overlap in the previous item?
a. 90 b. 65 c 25 d. 5
32. It is the part of a planter that drops the seeds on the furrow.
a. seed plate b. seed tube c. metering mechanism d. hill dropper
33. This is a part of a disc plow that prevents the clogging of the discs while operating on sticky soils.
a. declogger b. coulter c. scraper d. rear thrust wheel
34. It is an implement used for breaking clods after the initial plowing, for subsequent operations prior to
transplanting and for puddling and leveling. It consists of a row of teeth that works like a rake.
a. offset harrow b. disc harrow c. tandem harrow d. comb-tooth harrow
 35. Which of the following fuels is derived from renewable sources?
a. cocodiesel b. gasoline c. cetane d. aviation gas
36. An engine running at 1,800 rpm has a bore diameter of 120 mm and a piston speed of 540 m/min.
Determine the length of stroke for the piston.
a. 100 mm b. 120 mm c. 150 mm d. 180 mm
37. What is the piston displacement of the engine in the previous item?
a. 6785 cc b. 565 cc c. 452 cc d. 1696 cc
38. It is the ratio between the mass of fuel consumed per unit of time of an engine and the corresponding
measured power.
a. fuel consumption b. specific fuel consumption c. mass-time ratio d. a, b and c
39. In a 4-stroke cycle engine, at what event is the exhaust valve close?
a. intake b. compression c. power d. all of a, b and c
40. A tillage and land-forming operation using a tool which splits the soil and turns furrows laterally in opposite
directions, thereby providing ridge-and-furrow soil configuration.
a. listing b. chisel plowing c. harrowing d. bulldozing

Answer Key

1. d
2. c
3. a
4. b
5. d
6. b
7. c
8. d
9. c
10. c
11. b
12. c
13. c
14. a
15. a
16. d
17. a
18. c
19. b
20. b
21. b
22. c
23. c
24. a
25. d
26. a
27. a
28. a
29. d
30. c
31. d
32. b
33. c
34. d
35. a
36. c
37. d
38. b
39. d
40. a