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Grade 10 Animal Studies

Agricultural Sciences practice questions and a worked example

Grade 10 Agricultural Sciences animal studies questions cover cattle, sheep, goat, pig, poultry, horse and game farming. You identify breeds and their products from pictures and tables, tell beef, dairy and dual-purpose breeds apart, classify animals as ruminants or non-ruminants, and name by-products such as bone meal and bristle. 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.

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QUESTION 4: ANIMAL STUDIES 4.1 The flow diagram below shows different types of beef breeds and milk breeds. Study the diagram and answer questions that follow. 4.1.1 Identify the TWO exotic beef breeds in the diagram above.

Answer

• Hereford • Brahman

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1.1.7 The following statements are TRUE about the domestication of animals: (i) Most animals were domesticated for their products (ii) Few animals were domesticated to be pets (iii) Some animals were domesticated for transport and work (iv) Many animals were domesticated for home protection Choose the CORRECT combination below:
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    1.1.10 One of the animals listed below, does not belong to the game animals known as The Big Five:
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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. 1.2.5 COLUMN A: A: Drakensberger B: Nguni COLUMN B: It was created by cross breeding the Afrikaner with the Holstein
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    1.3 Give ONE word/term for each of the following descriptions. 1.3.5 An incidental or secondary product made in the manufacture or synthesis of something else
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    1.4 Change the UNDERLINED WORD(S) in each of the following statements to make them TRUE. 1.4.3 Mutton breeds are used in wool and meat production systems that combine fine wool production with higher fertility and slaughter lamb production. [Underlined in the paper: Mutton breeds]

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  • Mixing up the dairy breeds. The Jersey produces high-quality milk with a high butterfat content; the Friesland or Holstein produces white milk with a low butterfat content.
  • Treating horses and donkeys as ruminants. They are grazers but monogastric; a goat is a ruminant with a four-chambered stomach.
  • Naming meat as the main product of every goat. The Angora goat is kept for mohair, and the Saanen and Toggenburg are dairy goats.

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Aligned to CAPS Grade 10 Agricultural Sciences — Animal Studies. Curriculum source: CAPS for the FET Phase, Department of Basic Education.

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