Summary

• Description:

  The MS Word document comprises Grade 6 Agriculture and Nutrition Mid Term 2 2025 Exam with Marking Scheme. The PDF version is also available upon your request. The marking scheme is in a different document.

  The exam paper contains 21 main questions, many with multiple parts, and is marked out of a total of 70 marks. The duration for the exam is not specified in the provided document.

  Topics covered:

  • Agriculture
    • Soil Erosion: Understanding and demonstrating soil erosion, identifying materials for a setup, explaining the process, naming types of soil erosion, and stating the role of ground cover like grass.
    • Seedbed Preparation and Crop Management: Identifying types of seedbeds (e.g., raised beds), reasons for their use, alternative planting methods for crops like maize, and common caring practices for growing crops.
    • Tree Management: Reasons for protecting young trees, materials used for protection, and alternative protection methods.
    • Creeping Crops: Identifying common creeping crops, their planting materials, methods of preparing planting materials, and identifying/explaining caring practices like staking or trellising.
    • Domestic Animals: Identifying different domestic animals from pictures, stating reasons for rearing them, common rearing practices, and methods of protecting them from wild animals.
    • Organic Gardening: Identifying caring practices for organic legume crops (e.g., weeding), naming other organic gardening practices, and safety measures when using farm tools.
    • Wild Animal Control: Identifying methods used to control wild animals on the farm (e.g., traps), reasons for controlling them, appropriate actions for trapped animals, and alternative control methods.
  • Human Health, Nutrition, and Home Management
    • Adolescence: Identifying physical changes that occur specifically in girls during adolescence.
    • Personal Grooming: Recommending good grooming habits to address issues like dirty uniforms and body odour.
    • Use of Cosmetics: Identifying potential problems from improper application of make-up.
    • Non-Communicable Diseases: Identifying a non-communicable disease (e.g., asthma) based on symptoms and environmental triggers.
    • Financial Literacy: Understanding basic concepts like saving and the importance of making a budget.
    • Nutrition: Identifying minerals found in specific food items and recognizing symptoms of nutritional deficiencies (e.g., anaemia).
    • Food Preservation: Sequencing the steps for preserving food using the sun-drying method and outlining hygiene measures for preserving meat.
    • Fuels and Cooking: Identifying cooking equipment suitable for different types of fuels. Planning a balanced meal with varied nutrients. Identifying cooking methods from descriptions and stating relevant safety measures. Naming foods prepared by baking.
    • Needlework: Describing proper ways of storing needlework tools after use.
    • Laundry: Outlining the correct steps for washing a white cotton shirt.
• File Size:

  477.00 KB
• Length:

  12 pages
• Category:

  Exams
• Level:

  Grade 6
• Subject:

  AGRICULTURE & NUTRITION
• Posted By:

  Caleb_Peter

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