GENERAL KNOWLEDGE : Poaceae Grasses

 

CLASS 8

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Poaceae Grasses

 

Poaceae are the grasses that are shrub- or tree-like plants. Here is a quiz on the same.

 

Tick (✔) the correct answers:

 

1. Which of these is not a grass grown for its edible seeds?

a. Rice

b. Wheat

c. Maize

d. Potato

 

2. Name the grass which is the major source of sugar production:

a. Potatoes

b. Wheat

c. Rice

d. Sugarcane

 

3. Which of these is not grass used as an animal fodder?

a. False Oat grass

b. Neem

c. Meadow

d. Bermuda grass

 

4. This grass is used to make wooden wind instruments:

a. Maize

b. Arundo

c. Rice

d. Wheat

 

5. The pollen of which grass causes hay fever?

a. Rye grass

b. Bent grass

c. Zoysia

d. Reed

 

6. Name the grass not used to make lawns:

a. Bahia grass

b. Meadow grass

c. Bamboo

d. Bermuda grass

 

7. Name the grass used in traditional medicine for skin and eye problems:

a. Bermuda grass

b. Culms

c. Nodes

d. Blades

 

8. Name the product made from grass fibre:

a. Paper

b. Biofuel

c. Board

d. All of these

 

9. What is the term used to denote the hollow stems of most poaceae plants?

a. Sheaths

b. Culms

c. Nodes

d. Blades

 

10. Name the grass with blades that are sharp enough to cut human skin:

a. Cut grass

b. Knife grass

c. Sword grass

d. Rye grass

 

11. What is the thin outgrowth at the junction of leaf and leaf stalk called?

a. Blade

b. Ligule

c. Node

d. Clums

 

ANSWERS:

1.    Potato

2.    Sugarcane

3.    Neem

4.    Arundo

5.    Rye grass

6.    Zoysia

7.    Bermuda grass

8.    All of these

9.    Culms

10. Sword grass

11. Node