GES
MOCK TESTS and ANSWERS
1
1. Problems facing wildlife management in Nigeria
include the following except one
A) Scarcity of professionally trained manpower at
all levels.
B) Inadequate funding of wildlife programmes by
the government
C) Insufficient water resources.
D) Competition with other land users.
2. Wildlife meat accounts for between ………….of
animal protein consumed by people living in the coastal regions of West Africa.
A) 20-90%
B) 40-80%
C) 30-70%
D) 10-90%
3. In Ghana, wildlife is the source of……….of the
protein consumed in rural areas
A) 60%
B) 65%
C) 50%
D) 45%
4. The most familiar of animals domesticated by
man and also refers to as hunting partner is
A) Cow
B) Goat
C) Dog
D) Lion
5. Wildlife values include the following except
A) Transportation values
B) Ecological values
C) Socio-economic values
D) Socio-cultural values
6. The most important aspect of wildlife
utilization is
A) Egg product
B) Cow product
C) Meat product
D) Food product
7. The most generally recognized value of
wildlife in terms of utilization is
A) Marketing
B) Commercial
C) Productive
D) Trading
8. According to………..hunting, collecting, dressing
and eating bushmeat places people at increased risk of contacting animal borne
diseases
A) BCTF (2003)
B) Adegbite (2003)
C) CTA (2003)
D) NEST (2003)
9. Problems of wildlife conservation include the
following except
A) Problem of ownership and land tenure right and
decree
B) Hunting pressure and illegal poaching activity
C) Illegal settlement and uses of resources
D) Problem of earth warming
10. Nigeria’s first game reserve is
A) Kwale game reserve
B) Falgore game reserve
C) Dagida game reserve
D) Yankari game reserve
2
1. ------- refers to all living things , plants,
invertebrates and vertebrates outside the control of Man
Wildlife or wild animal species
2. According to UNEP(1995), ------- refers to total
variability of living organisms on the planet
Biodiversity or biological diversity
3. The totality of genes, species and ecosystems in a
region is ---------------------
Biodiversity or biological diversity
4.Another name for
undomesticated fauna is -----------------while --------------- is another name
for
undomesticated flora
wild animal/wild plants
5.The illegal hunting and exploitation of wildlife
resources is ------------
poaching
6. According to FDF(1982), the main national wildlife
management philosophy and policy are --------------, ------------------------,
and ------------------
Bush meat production, preservation of
natural heritage and promotion of recreation and tourism
7. Any native species
likely to become an endangered
species within the foreseeable
future is known as ---
threatened
8. Any native species in immense danger of extirpation or
extinction is called--------------
Endangered
9. -------------- refers to any specie
that is not extinct but no longer
occur in a wild state or exhibit patterns of use
extirpation
10.-------------- is defined as the reduction of a
species to such low abundance that though it is present in
the community , it no longer interacts significantly with
other species
ecological extinction
3
1. The government wage policy during the second era was__anti______agriculture? (a) pro
(b) anti ( c) ambi
2. One of these resulted (emanated0 from the government
wage policy during the second era
(a) Shehu Shagari awards of 1978
(b) Udoji salary awards of 1974 (c) Adebo wage and salary
awards in 1984
3. The macroeconomic policies under SAP that affected agriculture directly
may be divided into
Fiscal, monetary,
trade and pricing policies
4. Who is the present minister of agriculture? Dr. Akinwunmi Ayo Adeshina
5 The most recent
agenda which aims at strengthening the value chain of various
agricultural
crops and livestock is Agricultural Transformation Agenda
6. Write in full the following acronyms
i) GDP - Gross
Domestic Product
ii) ADPs - Agricultural Development Projects
iii) RBDA - River Basin Development Authorities
iv) DFRRI -Directorate for Food Road and Rural
Infrastructure
v) NACB -
Nigerian Agriculture and Cooperative
Bank
vi) NSS -National Seed Service
vii) NAFPP -National Accelerated Food Production
Programme
viii) OFN -Operation Feed the Nation
ix) SAP -Structural Adjustment Programme
x) FEAP -Family Economic Advancement Programme
xi) NACRDB -
Nigerian Agriculture, Cooperative and
Rural Development Bank
xii) SMIEIS -Small and Medium Industries and Equity
Investment Scheme
4
1.farming is the
nucleus of agriculture?
2. “If agriculture should remain stagnant, industries will
not grow.” Who said this and in which
year did he say it? Arthur Lewis, 1954
3. Demand that is backed up with the ability to pay is called Effective demand
4. Importation of food is triggered by (a) improvement in
agricultural activities (b)
inadequate local production
(c). deficit in GDP
5 The land tenure
system deals with ownership of land and the control over its use
6. The land use decree of 1978 confers ownership_of
land on the state
7 The three distinct agricultural policy eras as identified
by Olayemi (1989) in years are_1960 -
1969,
1970 -1984, and Post 1984
8. The macroeconomic policies instituted in the second era
were generally (a) inflationary (b)contractionary (c) expansionary (d) deflationary
9. The Nigerian Agricultural and Credit Bank (NACB) was
established in 1973 while the
Agricultural Credit Guarantee
Scheme was launched in 1977
10. Six national commodity boards were established in 1977
to replace regional marketing boards in existence then. Mention these six
commodity boards. They are Cocoa, Groundnut, Palm produce, Cotton,
Rubber and Grains commodity boards
5
1.The order of the
ruminants' compartmentalized stomach is .............
A. rumen, omasun, abomasun reticulum
b. rumen, abomasun, reticulum, omasun
C. rumen, reticulum, omasun, abomasun
D. rumen, reticulum, abomasun, omasun
2. Rabbit has the
ability to degrade large amounts of fibre because ..............
A .it feeds on forages
B. it has micro-organisms in its rumen
C. it possesses large micro-organisms in its
enlarged caecum
D .it has the ability to growp solely from the
consumption of fibrous and develofeed
3. Which compartment of
the ruminant stomach functions like the simple stomach of non-ruminants?
A. Rumen
B.Reticulum
C.Abomasun
D. Omasun
4. ............. denotes
a family name or the name of the breeder which develop a particular variety
A. Strain
B.Breed
C.Class
D. Variety
5. All of these but one
are factors to consider in selecting a breed
A. the rate of egg or meat production
B. mortality rate in the laying house
C. egg size and quality
D. adaptability of the breed to the market
6. Another name for
Gumboro disease is ...........
A. Infectious
bursa disease
B.Trypanosomiasis
C New castle disease
D. Coccidiosis
7. The temperature of
the brooder area on arrival of chicks is about
A 26.5 degree Celsius
B. 29.5 degree Celsius
C. 21 degree Celsius
D. 35 degree Celsius
8. The crude protein
content in a pullet chick starter diet is about.............
A. 19 to 21%
.B 16 to 17%
C. 14 to 15%
D. 10 to 12%
9. The energy
requirement in a broiler finisher diet is about.........
A. 2800
to 3000 kcal/kg
B. 3200 to 3500 kcal/kg
C. 2600 to 2750 kcal/kg
D. 2000 to 2500 kcal/kg
10. You vaccinate a
chicken against all of the following diseases except
A. fowl pox
B. fowl cholera
C. Newcastle
6
1. The science of management of soil resources to produce crops
is.......
·
A. Agronomy
·
B. Soil Science
·
C. Crop Science
·
D. Soil Management
2. "Agros" is the Greek word for..........
·
A. Soil
·
B. Field
·
C. Manage
·
D. Agric
3. Scientific approach to crop production was first introduced in
......... Experimental station in the year ...........
·
A. Rothamstead, 1804
·
B. IITA, 1934
·
C. Rothamstead, 1834
·
D. CRIN, 1894
4. All of these but one are under crop compobents of agronomy
·
A.Pasture Agronomy
·
B. Horticulture
·
C. Mineralogy
·
D. Weed Science
5. ...........refers to the various combinations patterns of crops
on the field
·
A. Farming system
·
B. Pattern cropping
·
C. Relay cropping
·
D. Crop ratation
6. Which of these is NOT responsible for the slow transition from
Peasant to mechanized farming?
·
A. Low managerial competence
·
B. Nature of crops
·
C. rudimentary mechanical knowldge
·
D. Poor Credit facilities
7. Jute can be classified as ...........
·
A. Cereals
·
B. Fibre
·
C. Legumes
·
D. Stimulants
8. A vertical succession of horizontal layers of the soil on which
plant grows and man lives and sustain is called..........
·
A. Soil profile
·
B. Soil depth
·
C. Soil
·
D. Earth crust
9. The relative proportion of sand, silt and clay in a soil sample
refers to .........
·
A. soil structure
·
B. Soil Profile
·
C. Soil properties
·
D. Soil texture
10. The surface soil consists of mineral, air, water and organic
matter in a proportion of .........
·
A. 45:25:25:5
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B. 25:45:25:5
·
C. 45:25:5:25
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D 5:25:25:45
11. The type of soil in alluvial flood plains or poorly developed
shallow rock ground is............
·
A. Alfisols
·
B. Ultisols
·
C. Vertisols
·
D. Entisols
12. .......... is characterized by heavy clayey sols localized and
found in some depressions along the riverbanks.
·
A. Vertisols
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B. Oxisols
·
C. Inceptisols
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D. Ultisols
