Class 6 | Geography | Chapter 4 - Types of Agriculture | Questions and Answers

A. Answer the questions given by choosing the most appropriate alternative.

1. In the word 'agriculture' ager means_________.

a) Farm

b) field

c) orchard

d) grow 

Answer: (b) Field

2. _________is the practice of growing two crops simultaneously on the same land.

a) Jhum

b) Horticulture

c) Mixed Cropping

d) Crop rotation

Answer (c) Mixed cropping

3. Viticulture is the cultivation of__________.

a) oranges

b) apples

c) grapes

d) olives

Answer (c) grapes

4. Commercial grain farming was first developed in the_________.

a) Japan

b) USA

c) Europe

d) India

Answer (b) USA

5. The rearing of________is called sericulture.

a) cows

b) silkworms

c) fish

d) sheep

Answer (b) silkworms

B. Fill in the blanks.

1. ______is a self-sufficiency farming system.

Answer Subsistence farming

2. _____is commonly practiced in Asia and South-east Asia.

Answer Intensive Farming

3. _____is practiced where population densities are low and land is easily available.

Answer Extensive Farming

4. _____is practiced by tribal people who lived in remote, hilly or forested regions.

Answer Shifting agriculture

5. Shifting cultivation is called_______in Indonesia. 

Answer Ladang

C. Write (T) for the true and (F) for false.

1. Shifting cultivation is prevalent in the Congo Basin. 

Answer: True

2. Shifting cultivation is called milpa in India.

Answer: False

Sericulture is a highly intensive type of livestock farming.

Answer: False

USA is world's largest producer of milk

Answer: False

Amul is a dairy cooperative movement in India which started in 1950.

Answer: False

D. Differentiate between the following:

1. Pisciculture and viticulture (Click here for Answer)

2. Intensive and extensive farming (Click here for Answer)

3. Subsistence and commercial farming (Click here for Answer)

4. Sericulture and horticulture (Click here for Answer)

E. Answer the questions in about 20-30 words.

1. Define agriculture. What are the two main types of agriculture? (Click here for Answer)

2. Why is shifting agriculture a wasteful method of cultivation? (Click here for Answer)

3. What is plantation farming? Give examples. (Click here for Answer)

4. What is horticulture? Where is it practiced? (Click here for Answer)

5. What is Amul? Why was it found? (Click here for Answer)