DIVISION UNIFIED TEST
IN TLE GRADE 9-AGRICULTURAL CROP PRODUCTION
THIRD QUARTER
Direction: Read and understand each question carefully. Choose the letter of the correct answer
and write it in your answer sheet.
1. Which method is a good agriculture
practice in the conservation of soil
fertility?
A. Apply commercial fertilizer
B. Apply organic fertilizer
C. Practice broadcasting of
commercial fertilizer
D. Practice burning the farm
wastes
2. Which is the primary function of
nitrogen?
A. Aids in seed formation
B. Forms and transfers starch
C. Gives dark green color to
plants
D. Hastens maturity
3. How many kilograms of ammonium
sulfate is needed to supply 120
kilograms of nitrogen per hectare?
A. 571 kg. AS/ha.
B. 671 kg. AS/ha.
C. 771 kg. AS/ha.
D. 871 kg. AS/ha.
4. In your organic garden, fruit bearing
vegetable crops failed to bear flowers
on its maturity stage. Would you
apply chemical flower inducers?
A. No, because applying
chemicals can give harmful
effects to human and
environment
B. No, wait until the time that the
crops bear flowers naturally.
C. Yes, because applying
chemicals improved the stem,
root, and fruit of the crops.
D. Yes, because applying flower
inducers can increased the
yield
5. What changes would you make if you
have applied the wrong foliar
fertilizer?
A. Apply another fertilizer
B. Stop fertilizing the crop
C. Wait for the rain to wash out
the fertilizer
D. Wash the plants with water to
remove the fertilizer
6. What can you suggest if the soil has
failed to grow healthy crops and
produce low quality harvest after
continued use of inorganic fertilizer?
A. Apply another commercial
fertilizer
B. Apply organic fertilizer
C. Conduct soil testing
D. Let the soil undergo fallow
period
7. What method of controlling insect
pests and diseases that adopt the
system of crop rotation?
A. Biological
B. Chemical
C. Cultural
D. IPM
8. Which method of insect control is
practiced by a farmer when he allows
the existence of natural enemies of
insect pests in his farm?
A. Biological
B. Chemical
C. Cultural
D. Genetic
9. Which is a biological method of
controlling insects?
A. Proper land preparation
B. Proper timing of planting
C. The use of Malathion to spray
the crops
D. The use of predators to
suppress insect pests
10. What farm practice that refers to the
removal of excess water from the soil
in order to increase its productivity?
A. Drainage
B. Irrigation
C. Percolation
D. Seepage
11. What evidence can you find if
tomatoes are attacked by tomato
hornworms?
A. Crops have burning color
 B. Crops lack vigor
C. Fruits started to deform
D. Large amounts of green
foliage and sometimes fruits
are consumed
12. How can you identify a cucumber
crops that are attacked by cucumber
beetle?
A. Cucumber starts to rot
B. The beetle transmits toxins to
the fruits
C. The larvae feed on flowers
D. The larvae feed on roots and
underground stems
13. What can you recommend to
vegetable grower in order to prevent
the outbreak of vegetable disease?
A. Avoid entries of foreign crop
varieties
B. Eradicate and remove disease
infected crops
C. Observe proper sanitation in
the farm
D. Plant resistant varieties
14. What do you think is the reason of
studying the life cycle of an insect?
A. To identify their control
measures
B. To know their destructive
stage
C. To know their abundant
season
D. To study their role in the
ecological balance
15. What would you do if you have seen
crops infected with disease?
A. Allow the plants to continue to
grow
B. Cut and burn the infected
plants
C. Cut the infected portions of the
plant
D. Spray with chemicals
16. How would you describe the aims
and methods of controlling plant
diseases?
A. Imaginative and subjective
B. Interactive and collective
C. Investigative and informative
D. Preventive and curative
17. What could be done to control the
onset of plant diseases?
A. Follow quarantine procedures
B. Identify the signs and
symptoms
C. Sterilize the soil and treat the
seeds
D. Study the causes of disease
18. What do you call the symbol of
interactions between a pathogen and
a host in a favorable environment?
A. Disease circle
B. Disease rectangle
C. Disease square
D. Disease triangle
19. As crop grower, what could be the
best alternative to control the attack
of pest without destructing our
environment?
A. Biological control
B. Chemical control
C. Cultural methods
D. Tillage operation
20. What farm practice that is referred to
the removal of excess water from the
soil in order to increase its
productivity?
A. Drainage
B. Irrigation
C. Percolation
D. Seepage
21. What type of irrigation system when
water is applied to plants in the form
of spray or simulated rain?
A. Drip
B. Sprinkler
C. Sub-surface
D. Surface
22. What method of irrigation is used to
apply water with the use of sprinklers
to irrigate the growing crops?
A. Irrigation by gravity
B. Irrigation by hand
C. Irrigation by power machinery
D. Irrigation by windmill
23. What type of irrigation when water is
applied above the ground, either in
furrows or by spreading it over the
land being irrigated?
A. Overhead or spray irrigation
B. Sub-irrigation
C. Surface irrigation
D. Watering by hand
24. As crop grower, water is one thing to
be considered in the farm, how will
you save irrigation water?
A. Lining of canals with a clay
puddle
B. Over irrigation
 C. Planting in improperly graded
surfaces.
D. Wild flooding
25. How would you describe a good
drainage?
A. It enables the growing of quick
maturing crops.
B. It improves the temperature
condition of the soil.
C. It increases quality, attractive
appearance and yield of crops.
D. It is a means of securing early
maturity on most crops.
26. In order to save irrigation water, what
best practice should we apply?
A. Applying over irrigation
methods
B. Planting the field with uniform
or properly graded surface.
C. Practicing lining of canals
properly with a clay puddle
D. Practicing wild flooding
27. How would you evaluate the benefits
of irrigation?
A. If it improves the tilth of the
soil.
B. If it increases availability of
plant food
C. If it increases benefits obtained
from the use of fertilizers.
D. If it increases quality and yield
of crop
28. What is the role of water in plants?
A. It lowers the temperature
condition of the soil
B. It is use for transpiration carrier
of nutrients from the soil to
green plant tissues
C. It provides moisture content of
the plant
D. It will guide the 3 major
elements needed by plants
29. How important is the irrigation system
in crop production?
A. It furnishes a very satisfactory
means of pumping water and It
works well in sections along
the seashores.
B. It is used only where a
valuable crop can be grown in
a small piece of land, as in
school and home gardens.
C. It is used where a valuable
crop can be grown in a small
piece of land.
D. It maintains landscape and
revegetate disturbed soils in
dry areas and during period of
less than average rainfall.
30. What should be the recommended
depth in cultivating the soil?
A. 4cm
B. 5cm
C. 6cm
D. 7cm
31. Which of these practices defined as a
tillage operation of loosening or
breaking up the soil about growing
crops or plants in order to maintain
them in condition favorable for their
growth?
A. Crop rotation
B. Cultivation
C. Fertigation
D. Fertilization
32. What type of weeds that are like
grasses but have three-ranked leaves
and triangular solid stems and, they
frequently have modified rhizomes for
storage and propagation?
A. Broadleaves Weeds
B. Grasses
C. Sedges
D. Tubers
33. What method of controlling the weeds
that applies thorough land
preparation, crop rotation, cover
cropping, inter cropping and catch
cropping?
A. Biological cropping methods
B. Chemical cropping methods
C. Cropping and cultural methods
D. Mechanical methods
34. When is the best time to cultivate the
soil?
A. After draining the field
B. After planting and before the
crop covers the ground
C. After rainy season
D. After watering or irrigating
35. Which is true about cultivation?
A. It decreases crop yield
B. It depletes soil nutrients
C. It destroys weeds
D. It hinders aeration of the soil
36. Which of the following is a principle of
weed control?
A. It is less important to know if
its method of reproduction is
 by seeds, by underground
vegetative parts, or both.
B. It is necessary to know if a
weed is terrestrial or aquatic.
C. It is necessary to know
whether weeds are susceptible
to drought or to water lodging
or easily affected by these
conditions.
D. It is optional to control weeds,
understand thoroughly their
nature, life history, habit of
growth and their methods of
natural reproduction.
37. Why are weeds detrimental to crops?
A. They compete with nutrients
B. They eliminate insects
attacking the plants
C. They improve crop yield
D. They protect the crops from
sunlight
38. Why is weeding important to growing
crops?
A. Because it is necessary to
know their nature, life history,
habit of growth and their
methods of natural
reproduction.
B. Because it is necessary to
know whether weeds are
resistant to drought or to water
lodging or easily affected by
these conditions.
C. Because weeds are competitor
to cops and they compete the
crops in getting nutrients from
the soil.
D. Because weeds can hamper
the flow of water resulting to
overflow
39. What should be done to control the
weeds successfully?
A. It is advisable to control the
weeds by means of
mechanical equipment.
B. It is better to apply high
dosage of herbicides
C. It is important to know their
nature, habit and growth and
their methods of natural
reproduction
D. It is recommended to pasture
the field with farm animals
40. Why do we need to cultivate the
garden soil?
A. It decreases soil value
B. It helps to spread the weed
seeds
C. It improves the tilth of the soil
D. It makes the top soil compact
41. What do you call the mixture of
decayed organic materials
decomposed by micro-organisms in a
warm, moist, and aerobic
environment, (oxygen breathing)
releasing nutrients into readily
available forms for plant use?
A. Complete fertilizers
B. Compost
C. Mulching
D. Non-biodegradable
42. What is the balance diet combination
of compost materials for
microorganisms?
A. Brown and blue
B. Brown and green
C. Brown and red
D. Brown and red
43. Why does right amount of air and
water is needed in composting?
A. Microorganisms are always
thirsty.
B. Microorganisms can rapidly
grow and multiply
C. Microorganisms grow best in
wet area
D. Microorganisms need oxygen
44. What would happen to the garden soil
if added with compost material?
A. Increase the humus level in
the soil
B. It improves the structure and
nutrient content
C. It produces more methane gas
D. It solves the erosion problems
45. How would you test if compost
material is ready for application?
A. Compost material are fresh
B. Composts are wet
C. The composts are course in
texture
D. The composts are dry, porous
and fine
46. What would be the possible effect of
continuous cropping without
replenishing the nutrients from the
soil?
A. The soil becomes acidic
B. The soil becomes productive
 C. The soil depletes its natural planting beds to a
nutrients recommended depth 3-4
D. The soil will be eroded inches.

47. What is being referred to any material 50. Why is mulching important to
spread on the ground to protect plant agricultural crops?
roots from heat, cold or drought and A. Mulching insulates the soil,
to keep fruits clean?
helping to provide a buffer
A. Compost
B. Mulch from heat and cold
C. Stake B. Mulching keeps weeds out to
D. Trellis help root competition

48. Which mulching material is much

better than plastic because they can
C. Mulching prevents soil
be turned into the soil?
A. Cloth compaction and reduces lawn
B. Newspaper mower damage.
C. Plastic D. Mulching retains water helping
D. Straw to keep the roots moist.

49. How do you apply mulch around the

plant?
A. Cultivate first the soil around
the plants and put the mulch
materials throughout planting
beds
B. Pull mulch away from the basis
of tree and shrub trunks
creating a donut -hole or
volcano shape.
C. Spread much under trees,
shrubs, and throughout
planting beds to a
recommended depth 5-6
inches.
D. Spread mulch under trees,
shrubs, and throughout