CBSE Class 8 Science Chapter Wise Question Bank Set A

Science for Class VIII

1. Crop Production and Management

Q 1 Why storage of food is done?

Q 2 Write any two sources of irrigation?

Q 3 What are the two common forms by which we add nutrients in soil?

Q 4 What do you mean by seed drill?

Q 5 What is sowing?

Q 6 Why we use tractor driven cultivator for ploughing now a days?

Q 7 How are disease transmitted in plants?

Q 8 Name two common examples of agricultural crops.

Q 9 What is agriculture?

Q 10 What is crop?

Q 11 What do you understand by harvesting and threshing?

Q 12 What is weeding and why is it a necessary process?

Q 13 What is horticulture?

Q 14 Differentiate between plough and hoe? Marks 

Q 15 What do you mean by agricultural practices?

Q 16 What do fisheries include?

Q 17 What is winnowing?

Q 18 What is field fallow?

Q 19 What are Kharif season crops? Give examples.

Q 20 What are Rabi season crops? Give examples.

Q 21 What do you understand by the term preparation of soil?

Q 22 What do you mean by animal husbandry and what it‟s use?

Q 23 What are the various safety measures use for store the grain for longer time?

Q 24 What do you understand by weeds. And what are the different methods use by the farmers to remove weeds?

Q 25 What are the various activities come under agricultural practices?

Q 26 What are the traditional tools we used for sowing the seeds?

Q 27 How is tilling or ploughing are useful in agriculture?

Q 28 Why is it necessary to sow seeds at an appropriate depth and distance?

Q 29 Define irrigation and also mention the traditional and modern methods use for irrigation?

Q 30 How can we say that manure is better than fertilizers?

Q 31 Differentiate between fertilizers and manures.

Q 32 What are the different measures which help to increase crop yield?

Most Important Questions

Q 1 Why is crop production and management necessary?

Q 2 In a field if we found that same type of plants are grown in a row, what are they known as? Give one example.

Q 3 On what basis crops can be categorized into two types?

Q 4 What are the two types of cropping patterns which are broadly used?

Q 5 What do you understand by agricultural practices?

Q 6 Mention the basic practices of crop production.

Q 7 What happens in the first step of crop production?

Q 8 Mention the steps involved in soil preparation?

Q 9 What is done in the process of ploughing?

Q 10 What are the three tools used in soil preparation?

Q 11 Plough is used for various purposes. Mention some of them.

Q 12 What are the two parts of plough?

Q 13 What do you understand by Hoe?

Q 14 Why do we use tractor driven cultivators for ploughing nowadays?

Q 15 What is levelling? How is it done?

Q 16 What do you understand by the term Sowing?

Q 17 Why selection of seeds is necessary before sowing?

Q 18 Name the device that is commonly used for planting seeds in the soil.

Q 19 Why do we use seed drill for sowing?

Q 20 What happens if we do not add the nutrients in soil?

Q 21 What is meant by manure?

Please refer to attached file for CBSE Class 8 Science Chapter Wise Question Bank