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Grade 10 Sustainable Natural Resource Utilisation

Agricultural Sciences practice questions and a worked example

Grade 10 Agricultural Sciences questions on sustainable natural resource utilisation cover soil degradation, tillage systems, water use, agricultural waste and primary and secondary resources. You identify soil erosion and its causes from pictures, recommend control measures such as cover crops and contour ploughing, and explain what the National Water Act requires of farmers. They come from the Eastern Cape Department of Education’s Grade 10 November Paper 2s for 2018 and 2019 and its 2020 exemplar, each with the answer from the marking guideline.

Worked example

QUESTION 4: SUSTAINABLE NATURAL RESOURCE UTILISATION AND BIOLOGICAL CONCEPTS 4.1 The picture below shows the consequences of poor soil management. 4.1.1 Identify the phenomenon displayed in the picture above. 4.1.2 Suggest TWO adverse effects of the phenomenon in QUESTION 4.1.1 to the farmer.

Answer

Any TWO: Reduction in arable land Loss of soil quality Siltation of dams

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1.1.6 … is not a control measure for soil degradation.
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Common mistakes

  • Giving a cause of soil erosion when a control measure is asked. Overgrazing and monoculture cause it; cover crops, contour ploughing and zero cultivation reduce it.
  • Mixing up crusting and compaction. The hardening of the soil surface is soil crusting.
  • Treating soil as a renewable resource. Soil is non-renewable because it takes a long time to develop.

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