The City School

Prep Girls North Nazimabad

Class 6
Geography
Chapter 1: Agriculture
Fill in the blanks
1. The rivers are very important for Pakistan because their water is used to___________the crops in plain areas.
2. Rabi crops are grown in ________________.
3. The process of separating the rain from the plant is called _________________.
4. The farm where most of the crops are used for family is called ___________________.
5. The type of rice that does not grow in water is known as _____________.
6. A ____________ is a small village.
7. The substance used for killing insects is known as __________.
8. There are ______ million people live in Singapore.
9. The farmer who rents a farm is called ________ farmer.
10. The Masai tribes live in _____________.
11. The British set up __________ to grow rubber, palm oil and tea.
12. Threads and yarn are woven into ___________.
13. ____________ Crop is grown highest in yield in Pakistan.
14. The kharif crops are grown in _________________.
15. There are ____________ tributaries of river Indus.
16. A person who does not own or rent any land is called a ___________ labourer.
17. Farmer use sharp blade, called _______________ to cut the rice crop.
18. “Arable” comes from the Latin word which means ____________.
19. Jhelum, Chanab, Ravi and Sutlej are the _______________ of river ___________.
20. Crops are grown in summer are called _________________.
21. Crops are grown in winter are called ____________.
22. Absence of water is known as _______________.
23. A ____________ is a substance added to soil to make it more fertile.
24. A____________ is built to control the flow of water.
25. __________ % of population depend on farming for their living.
26. Acre and hectares are measuring units of ____________.
27. The seed pods of the cotton plant are called __________.
28. Arare is a Latin word for Arable which means _________.
29. 33% of farms are smaller than ____ acres.
30. If landlord is not present it is called __________ landlord.
31. Tenant farmers is ______________.
32. The produce on _________ farm is mainly for the farmer’s family.
33. The amount of a crop produced per acre or hectare is called ______.
34. ___________ is a type of farming in which farmers move with animals to look for pasture and water.
35. The watering of farmland by artificial method is called _____________.
36. When seedlings of rice are about ___ cm tall they are ready for transplanting.
37. For transplanting _____ cm of water is needed.
38. A tool use for harvesting rice crop is called ____________.
39. The Masai tribes live in ________________.
40. The farm where most of the crops are used for family is called ____________.
Define the following:
a) Export: ______________________________________________________________________

b) Cycle of poverty: _______________________________________________________________

 c) Cash crop: _____________________________________________________________________

d) Irrigation system: ______________________________________________________________

e) Shifting cultivation:_____________________________________________________________

f) Clearing: ____________________________________________________________________

g) Latex: _______________________________________________________________________

h) Soilless cultivation: _____________________________________________________________

i) Chief crops: ___________________________________________________________________

Differentiate between the following:

1. Small scale arable farming and large scale arable farming
2. Shifting cultivation and soilless cultivation
3. Cash crops and chief crops
4. Balochi tribe and Masai tribe
5. Hydroponic and aeroponic method
Compare the Balochi tribes in Pakistan and Masai tribes in East Africa and write at least two similarities along with
the reasons.
Complete the cycle of the poverty with the given labels.

Complete the following web.

With the help of the sketch, describe the different processes done during farming.
Label the tributaries of river Indus

Give answer of the following question by observing the graphs given below.

1. Which crop covers the largest area?

2. Which crop covers the smallest area?
3. Write in million tones the annual production of sugar-cane.
4. Write in million tones the annual production of wheat.
5. Why sugar-cane weighs so much and cotton weighs so little?