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SAI INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL
                 SUB- SOCIAL SCIENCE- GEOGRAPHY (VIRTUAL CLASSES WORKSHEET-2)
                                         STD-VIII- CHAPTER-4- Agriculture

                                            SUBJECTIVE ASSIGNMENT-2
         Sl.no  Questions                                                            Page  Mark
                Fill in the blanks:-                                                 42,4    1
                A] In____________ the farmer cultivates a small plot of land          3
                using simple tools and more labour.
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                B] Commercial farming includes commercial grain farming,
                mixed farming and ______________ .

                In response to the picture identify the                                      1
                type of farming involved in the
                process.


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                Match the following:-                                                 43     1

                   Column A                            Column B
                   Jhumming -                          Mexico
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                   Primitive tools                     Nomadic Herding
                   Milpa                               North-East India
                   Transhumance                        Subsistence farming


                What is organic farming?                                              42     1
           4

                What is shifting cultivation? What are its disadvantages?             43     3
           5
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                Write any three points of difference between subsistence             42,     3
           6    farming and commercial farming.                                       43

                Give any four characteristic features of plantation farming.          44     5
           7    Name any two plantation crops grown in India.


                Book Exercise Questions
           8    What is plantation agriculture?                                       44     1

           9    What is shifting cultivation? What are its disadvantages?             44     3
                Distinguish between: -Subsistence farming and Intensive               48     3
          10
                farming.
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