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Grade 10 Agri-industry

Agricultural Sciences practice questions and a worked example

Grade 10 Agricultural Sciences agri-industry questions cover food use and food security, population growth, indigenous and scientific knowledge, agricultural legislation, land ownership and tenure, and agricultural organisations. You read graphs and tables of food use and population, match Acts to what they protect, and explain terms such as urbanisation, leasehold and staple food. They come from Grade 10 November Paper 1s: the Eastern Cape Department of Education’s 2019 paper and 2020 exemplar and North West’s 2024 paper, each with the answer from the marking guideline.

Worked example

QUESTION 3: AGRI-INDUSTRY 3.1 The graph below shows the information about patterns of food use. Study the graph and answer the questions that follow. 3.1.1 Refer to the graph above and identify the food that is mostly used in rural areas. 3.1.2 Give a reason for the answer to QUESTION 3.1.1.

Answer

Any ONE: • Maize is a staple food • Easily accessible/cheap • Maize is 82%

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1.1.4 The production of maize in the Western Cape is 96 tons, in the Eastern Cape 92 tons and in Gauteng 84 tons. The production percentage of the Eastern Cape province will be …
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    1.2 Indicate whether each of the descriptions in COLUMN B applies to A ONLY, B ONLY, BOTH A AND B or NONE of the items in COLUMN A. 1.2.3 COLUMN A: A: State land B: Leasehold COLUMN B: Land is owned by a small village
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    1.2 Indicate whether each of the descriptions in COLUMN B applies to A ONLY, B ONLY, BOTH A AND B or NONE of the items in COLUMN A. 1.2.4 COLUMN A: A: Commodity organisations B: Agricultural Cooperatives COLUMN B: Local and provincial agricultural organisations
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    1.3 Give ONE word/term for each of the following descriptions. 1.3.3 A measure of how available food is, as well as a person’s access to food
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    1.3 Give ONE word/term for each of the following descriptions. 1.3.4 A change made to an Act

Common mistakes

  • Not recognising an indigenous practice. Growing two or more different crops next to each other is intercropping, and changing crops regularly on the same land is crop rotation.
  • Mixing up land ownership terms. A farmer who rents land from the owner holds it as leasehold; land owned by government departments and municipalities is state land.
  • Reading a difference off a graph without the calculation. Maize use is 82% in rural areas and 24% in urban areas, so the difference is 82 – 24 = 58%.

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