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PART 1. TERMS Flashcards

1
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The amount of power that the manufacturer specified for an engine.

A

rated horsepower

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2
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a mechanical breaking up fuel into spray droplets by high velocity of air passing through a jet

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atomization

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3
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during the power stroke, which of the following valve is open

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a. intake
b. exhaust
c. intake manifold
d. a and b
e. NOTA

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4
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power transmitted to the pistons by the gas in the cylinder

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indicated horsepower

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5
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number of spark plugs for a 6-cylinder diesel engine

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none (spark plugs are for SI (gasoline engine))

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6
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two pistons running at the same time in the same direction but performing different strokes

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running mate

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7
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it is the ration of the drawbar power and the wheel axle power of a tractor

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traction efficiency

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8
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an international trade, FOB means

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free on board

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9
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distance of movement of the piston from the top dead to the bottom dead center

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stroke

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10
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reduction of engine speed or flow of fuel

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throttling

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11
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a device that meters the fuel and air and mixes them into harmonious mixture before the mixture enters the combustion chamber of an engine

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carburetor

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12
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the space when the piston is at the top dead center

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clearance volume

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13
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part of an engine that converts reciprocating motion into rotary motion

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crankshaft

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14
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it is the amount of energy received by any surface perpendicular to the ray of the sun at any day and time

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solar constant

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15
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is a thermochemical conversion characterized by the absence of oxidant (oxygen) and it is also known as destructive distillation

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pyrolysis

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16
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system of number indicating the ignition quality of the diesel fuel

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cetane rating

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17
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the speed of the engine is automatically regulated by the __

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governor

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18
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a device that converts kinetic energy of the wind to mechanical power

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rotor

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19
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wind machine that is used for lifting power

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wind pump

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20
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a substance that is added to the tractor for the purpose of changing traction and stability

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a ballast

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21
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the inherent characteristics of tractors to maintain or to produce increased drawbar pull even if the speed is reduced

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lugging ability

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22
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it is the special arrangement of gears to permit driving member to rotated slower or faster than the other and permit operation of driving wheels at different speed for easy turn

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differential

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23
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it is an indicator of the amount of fuel is a furnace that is converted into ash

A

burning efficiency

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24
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part of the plow bottom which helps to counteract the side pressure exerted by the furrow slice

A

landside

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25
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an angle of the disk plow in reference to the vertical plane

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disk angle

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26
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a gang arrangement on a disk harrow consisting of two gangs of disk placed end-to-end which throws the soil in opposite direction

A

single action

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27
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the highest possible power coefficient of a windmill

A

0.593

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28
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a device to measure the quantity of oil in a crankcase

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dipstick

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29
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the act of analyzing, testing, and measuring the engine to remedy the cause of the trouble

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trouble shooting

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30
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it is the utilization of hand tools, implements for draft animals, and mechanically-powered machines for agricultural land development, production, harvesting and on-farm processing

A

agricultural mechanization

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31
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machine element that transmit torque and power

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shaft

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32
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a procedure in which planting is made directly into an essentially unprepared seedbed

A

zero tillage

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33
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the pushing or rolling of soil by a steeply inclined blade

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bulldozing

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34
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the angle in a vertical plane perpendicular to the direction of travel between a centralized tool or reference axis and the soil surface

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tilt angle

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35
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it is the ratio of the number of weeds removed by the weeder to the number of weeds per unit area

A

weeding index

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36
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a field sprayer that is being carried at the back by means of should straps

A

knapsack sprayer

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37
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a machine that involvers combing the grain from the plant while the plant remain anchored

A

stripper harvester

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38
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it is the ratio of the weight of cleaned threshed grain to the grain input

A

threshing recovery

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39
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the center-to-center distance between overlapping broadcast application

A

swath

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40
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a name given to by a manufacturer to its product to distinguish them from the ones produced by other manufactureres

A

brand name

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41
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a soil tool reaction in which soil slides over the surface of the tillage tool without significant adhesion

A

scouring

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42
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an instrument used to measure the draft of the plow

A

dynamometer

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43
Q

it is the cultivation of one crop underneath a perennial crop

A

inter-culture

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44
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a transport machine used in agriculture suitably designed for coupling to an agricultural tractor or self-propelled combine

A

agricultural

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45
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a transport machine used in agriculture suitably designed for coupling to an agricultural tractor or self-propelled combine

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agricultural trailer

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46
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a rotating device located inside the hopper of gravity flow applicator and broadcast spreaders to enhance delivery of granules to the adjustable office of the machine

A

agitator

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47
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a heat treatment method to increase the hardness of steel by rapid cooling

A

quenching

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48
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mixing of two or more substances wherein one of which is metal

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alloying

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49
Q

device that gives mechanical advantage

A

fulcrum
pulley
wheel and axle
lever

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50
Q

the smallest gears that are meshing together

A

pinion

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51
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it is the process of cutting holes to a material by means of shearing process

A

punching

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52
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when buying angle bars, the right specification is

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thickness and width

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53
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the higher the carbon content of steel, the __

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stronger

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54
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the ability of a good or service to satisfy human wants

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utility

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55
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the group of costs associated with initiation of an activity and which occurs only once for any given activity

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first cost

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56
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a uniform payment series is one of that consists of equal payments

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starting one year from now increasing by a uniform amount up to year n

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57
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the ability of a manager to choose appropriate objectives of the appropriate means for achieving a given objective

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efficiency

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58
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also know as the Philippine Agricultural Engineering Act of 1998

A

RA 8559

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59
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also know as the National Building Code of the Philippines

A

RA 6541

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60
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when viewed in front, tractor tires must be mounted with the v-pattern pointing in waht direction

A

downward

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61
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this must be high enough in order to self-ignite the air-fuel mixture in a diesel engine

A

compression temperature

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62
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the three c’s in promotion, in reference to message designing are

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convincing, clear, compelling

63
Q

a radio service panel truck initially costs 56,000. Its resale value at the end of the fifth year is estimated at 15,000. Determine the annual depreciation cost by straight line method

A

8,200

64
Q

power requirement of hold-on thresher to throw-in thresher

A

lesser

65
Q

ROPS

A

Rollover Protective Structure

66
Q

management concerned with an effective recruitment, selection, placement, development, maintenance, and utilization of manpower to obtain optimum efficiency of labor

A

personal management

67
Q

for developing countries, this power can be viable and economic option for small farm mechanization

A

animal

68
Q

dirty engine oil is characterized by

A

black smoke at the exit

69
Q

tractor hp is usually __ greater than drawbar hp

A

20%

70
Q

it is the measure of long-term financial stability of the business enterprise

A

solvency

71
Q

it is a group of persons who voluntarily join together with a common objective and bond of interest

A

cooperative

72
Q

promotion corresponds to what C of marketing

A

communication

73
Q

a public institution that usually issues the currency, regulates money supply, and controls the interest rates in a country

A

central banks

74
Q

It is the tax imposed by the government on imported goods.

A

TARIFF

75
Q

It is the exchange of goods and services measured in terms of money.

A

price

76
Q

The primary factor that affects the performance of the sprayer.

A

Spray-particle size

77
Q

API

A

American Petroleum Institute

78
Q

Primary gas produced during gasification.

A

Carbon Monoxide

79
Q

Stoichiometric air requirement for gasification.

A

30 – 40 %

80
Q

How many times greater is the power of a carabao over man?

A

10x

81
Q

Robin engines are manufactured from?

A

Japan

82
Q

Changing of transmission oil for tractors should be done every

A

6 months or 24,000
km

83
Q

A engine with no load is in what condition?

A

Idle condition

84
Q

Bulk density of rice rusks.

A

100-120 kg/m3

85
Q

A process by which a farm manager looks ahead to the future and contemplates
alternative courses of action for the farm.

A

farm planning

86
Q

Involves converting inputs into outputs.

A

Production

87
Q

It is an increase in the production of economic goods and services.

A

Economic growth

88
Q

Period of heat and greatest receptivity to male, rapture of ovarian follicles in most
farm animals.

A

ESTRUS

89
Q

Part of a rice thresher which encloses the threshing cylinder and allows the separation of
grains from the panicles.

A

CONCAVE

90
Q

What part of the internal combustion engine is usually made of cast iron and the primary function is to maintain uniform engine speed by carrying the crankshaft through those intervals when it is not receiving energy from a piston?

A

FLYWHEEL

91
Q

What is the effective swath of the boom sprayer?

A

75 CM

92
Q

It is the ratio of the drawbar power and the wheel axle power of a tractor.

A

traction efficiency

93
Q

Average power density of solar heat striking the earth surface.

A

0.89 kW/m2

94
Q

It is an indicator of the amount of fuel in a furnace that is converted into ash.

A

burning efficiency

95
Q

A gas produced from agricultural waste which is odorless, tasteless, colorless and flammable.

A

CO

96
Q

The caloric value of fuel is

A

the amount of heat contained by the fuel per unit weight

97
Q

The elemental analysis of biomass.

A

ultimate analysis

98
Q

The highest possible power coefficient of a windmill.

A

0.593

99
Q

Machine to be designed, if possible, should have __ reliability

A

95???

100
Q

shock resistance of steel is increased by adding

A

nickel and chromium

101
Q

kind of steel used for making tractor drawn disk plow bottoms

A

mild steel

102
Q

it is a type of material failure where the stresses in the material exceeds the material’s ultimate strength causing it to fracture into two or more parts but has undergone plastic deformation

A

brittle fracture

103
Q

a farmer decides to stop growing crop A and instead use the land to grow crop B. The amount of potential profit lost by not growing crop A represents the farmer’s

A

opportunity cost

104
Q

a sliding bearing which can support steady loads without any relative motion between the journal and the bearing is called

A

boundary lubricated bearing

105
Q

optimizing the use of farm resources on an individual farm level is dealt in

A

farm management

106
Q

it is a type of material failure defined as a compressive instability that usually occurs for long members

A

buckling failure

107
Q

this refers to the mean of the individual bottoms’ center of resistance each located one fourth the width of cut to the right of the landside and the junction of the share and the moldboard

A

center of plow resistance

108
Q

for walking plows to cause the mounted plow to go deeper the plow body is tipped

A

ambot sad

109
Q

it is an inter-organizational system made up of a set of interdependent activities aimed at expanding agricultural production

A

agricultural marketing machinery

110
Q

this agent middleman usually does not have the physical control of the product, ordinarily follows the instructions of his principle closely and has less discretionary power in the price negotiations than the commission agents

A

broker

111
Q

when the price of a product decreases, ceteris paribus, the product becomes cheaper. It is therefore, more attractive relative to other products and vice versa

A

substitution effect

112
Q

little or no air cushion in the pressure cylinder of the knapsack sprayer would cause

A

insufficient rorororor

113
Q

if leaks from the end of spray wand is observed when using a knapsack sprayer, what should be done

A
114
Q

the force which resists motion of the wheels over a track or field surface

A

rolling resistance

115
Q

when total utility increases, marginal utility is

A

positive

116
Q

chain lubrication in which the lower strand of chain runs through a sump of oil in the drive housing

A

bath lubrication

117
Q

typical diesel engine power requirement of power tiller used for plowing and harrowing rice field

A

7 hp

118
Q

A sprayer with a pressurized liquid tank and in which the discharge is carried out with the air pressure created in advance by
built-in pump or from outside

A

Compression sprayer

119
Q

Minimum area required for testing manually-operated seeder.

A

Not less than 500m2

120
Q

Gauge wheels control the ____.

A

depth of penetration of shovel

121
Q

An axial-flow type which is similar with the portable thresher with oscillating screen but larger in size usually equipped with
support wheel for ease of transport.

A

Mobile axial-flow thresher

122
Q

RK Series Mitsubishi engines commonly used for power tillers basically are ___ water-cooled-type engines.

A

horizontal

123
Q

In what order do managers typically perform the managerial functions? (POLC)

A

Planning, organizing, leading, controlling

124
Q

What are the three interpersonal roles of managers? (FLL)

A

Figurehead, leader, liaison

125
Q

The firing order of inline 8 cylinder engine is

A

1-5-4-8-7-2-6-3

126
Q

Monitoring body for the service warranty provided by the assemblers, manufacturers, importers, suppliers, distributors, and
dealers of agri-fisheries machines under AFMech Law.

A

LGU and BAFE

127
Q

Maxion Tractor is made from

A

Brazil

128
Q

The perpendicular distance between the upper hitch point and the common axis of the lower hitch point of the tractor.

A

Mast height

129
Q

Process of planning and executing the conception, pricing, promotion and distribution of ideas, goods, and services to create
exchange and satisfy the individual and organizational goals.

A

MARKETING

130
Q

What is the term “rule of thumb” type of bias in decision making?

A

Heuristics

131
Q

Axial flow rice thresher basically are powered by ___ gasoline engine

A

16 HP

132
Q

Moldboard plow accessory primarily used to cut through the surface residues, encabling more complete coverage of surface
trash.

A

Rolling coulters

133
Q

The process of placing seeds in holes made in seedbed and covering them.

A

Dibbling

134
Q

When bevel gears having equal teeth and equal pitch angles connect two shafts whose axes intersect at right angle, then they
are known as__

A

miter gears

135
Q

Aerosol generator is a mechanical device that produces a liquid dispersion having a volume meadian diameter of less than

A

50 μm

136
Q

This refers to a detailed and comprehensive document that describes all technical procedures related to product development

A

Technical Specifications

137
Q

National Agri-fishery Mechanization Program is created under RA 10601 to do the following except

A

a. Promote and support through the provision of research grants, credit, transparent and predictable regulation, the local
development and manufacture of agricultural and fisheries machinery by the private sector;

b. Unify, lead and support the efforts of various institutions in the research, design and development of agricultural and
fisheries machinery;

c. Strengthen support services such as credit faculties, research, training and extension programs, rural infrastructures,
postharvest facilities and marketing services

d. Establish quality, safety and performance standards for agricultural and fisheries machinery;

e. Support the establishment of quality, safety and performance testing centers for the certification of agricultural and
fisheries machinery in strategic localities in the country

138
Q

The area with lowest level of mechanization level.

A

Kalinga

139
Q

Which of the following is a method for controlling weeds?

a. Cultivation by stirring the soil.
b. Use of flame and chemical.
c. Laying of plastic strips over the row.
d. All of the above
e. Both A and C

A

D

140
Q

Accordingt o PNS/BAFS/PAES 192:2016, repair of defective units and provision of other after sales services shall be
undertaken within ______ upon the receipt of complaints.

A

72 hours

141
Q

The standard for the Technical Means for Ensuring safety – Guidelines is .

A

PNS/BAFS 330:2022

142
Q

Based on the PNS/BAFS for Knapsack Sprayer – Methods of Test, this test is carried out to evaluate the strength and
durability of the sprayer

A

PRESSURE TEST

143
Q

Tractors with PTO power rating of 110-350kW at rated rotational frequency of engine ( determined by ISO 789-1) are
categorized (based on the categories of rear- mounted three- point linkage) as

A

4N/N

144
Q

The - ratio of the milling recovery from the test rice mill to that from the laboratory whitener.

A

total milling recovery index

145
Q

A forage chopper that uses a feeding mechanism consisting of four or more feed rolls to partially orient and advance the crop
at a consistent rate into the cutting mechanism producing the shortest and most uniformly cut particles

A

Precision-cut

146
Q

For safety purposes, slow-moving vehicles such as agricultural machines must be provided with ___.

A

identification emblem to guide motorists that the machine is slow moving

147
Q

This term refers to how frequent the motor is started and how long it will run each time it is started

A

Duty Rating

148
Q

This represents the interrelationship between capacity, head, power, NPSH, and efficiency of the pump

A

Pump Performance Curve

149
Q

This acts as second speed reduction point in the power train

A

differential

150
Q

A detailed, precise diagram or plan that conveys information about how an object functions or constructed.

A

Engineering drawing

151
Q

The sorting of products into lots or units according to one or more of its attributes

A

grading

152
Q

When trooubleshooting, we should look at the

A

FACTS

153
Q

Which of the following is a category of contract as to completion status?

a. Executory
b. Under seal
c. Implied
d. Void
e. Two-party

A

EXECUTORY

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