SOIL SCIENCE TEST 1

Soil science test
Soil science test

SOIL SCIENCE TEST 1

 Each right answer has 4 mark and each wrong answer has -0.25 mark.

1/25
1. 'Soil fertility and fertilizers' was written by
(a) NC Brady
(b) Tisdale et al.
(c) MM Rai
(d) None
2/25
2. Who suggested that the principal nourishment of plant was water?
(a) Pietro de Crescenz
(b) JB Helmont
(c) Francis Bacon
(d) Jethro Tull
3/25
3. Who gave the statement 'water was the sole nutrient of plants' ?
(a) Robert Boyle
(b) John Woodward
(c) JR Glauber
(d) JB Helmont
4/25
4. Who suggested that saltpeter (KNO,), and not water, was the principle of vegetation.
(a) JR Glauber
(b) Jethro Tul
(c) Jehrwcodward
(d) John Mayow
5/25
5. "Horse hecing husbandry" was written by
(a) Liebig
(b) Arthur Young
(c) Faker
(d) Jethro Tull
6/25
6. 'Annals of Agriculture' a book was written by
(a) Sir Humphry Davy
(b) Arthur Young
(c) JS Kanwar
(d) Robert Warrington
7/25
7. Who is considered the father of field plot technique?
(a) JE Boussingault
(b) Fushkarnath
(c) Ramanunjan
(d) Liebig
8/25
8. The law of the minimer, was given by Liebig in
(a) 1842
(b) 1852
(c) 1862
(d) 1875
9/25
9. In 1843, Agricultural Experiment Station in Rothamsted, England was started by
(a) Liebig
(b) Blackman
(c) Lawes & Gilbert
(d) Benjamin Franklin
10/25
10. Who isolated Bacillus radicicola, the organism responsible for N fixation in 1888 ?
(a) S Winogradsky
(b) MW Beijerinck
(c) Milton Whitney
(d) JB Lawes
11/25
11. In remote sensing, which type of radiation is utilized for photography?
(a) Violet
(b) Far red light
(c) Infra red
(d) Green light
12/25
12. One bushel (bu) is equal to
(a) 28.35 gram
(b) 35.24 litres
(c) 101.30 atm
(d) 0.454 lb
13/25
13. One ton is equal to ____ kg.
(a) 100
(b) 907
(c) 1000
(d) 2240
14/25
14. It has been observed that soil pH increases in
(a) Summer
(b) Winter
(c) Zeid
(d) East monsoon season.
15/25
15. The behaviour of the plant in relation to day length is termed
(a) Thermoperiodism
(b) Photoperiodism
(c) Heliotropic
(d) None of above
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16. Scab of Irish potatoes, pox of sweet potatoes, and black root rot of tobacco are favoured by
(a) Acidic conditions
(b) Highly alkaline
(c) Neutral to alkaline conditions
(d) Extremely acidic condition
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17. "Increase in yield of a crop as a result of increasing a single growth factor is proportional to the decrement from the maximum yield obtainable by increasing the particular growth factor" was described by
(a) Liebig
(b) Bray
(c) Spillman
(d) EA Mitscherlich
18/25
18 Which one of the following is an example of positive interaction?
(a) Lime x P
(b) Mo x P
(c) P x Si
(d) Na x K
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19. Bray has modified the mitscherlich equation to
(a) G = f(X1, X2, X3,.... Xn)
(b) dy/dx = (A-y) C
(c) Y= A (1-10^-cx)
(d) log (A-y) = log A - C₂b - cx
20/25
20. The nutrient concentration range in which added nutrient will not increase yield but can increase nutrient concentration is referred as
(a) Deficient range
(b) Critical range
(c) Luxury consumption
(d) Toxic range
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21. Reduction reaction (NO, to NH,) for nitrate assimilation by enzyme nitrite reductase takes place in
(a) Protoplasm
(b) Cytoplasm
(c) Chloroplast
(d) Nucleus
22/25
22. Which element is considered as energy currency for the plant ?
(a) N
(b) P
(c) K
(d) Mo
23/25
23. Which element is indirectly related with drought resistance ?
(a) N
(b) K
(c) P
(d) Zn
24/25
24. The purpling along the leaf edges is the characteristic deficiency symptom of
(a) P
(b) K
(c) B
(d) Fe
25/25
25. Which one of the following element is considered to be an immobile element in the plant?
(a) Ca
(b) Mg
(c) N
(d) P
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