WAEC Agricultural Science · Section 2

Environmental factors affecting crop and animal distribution and production

Section B: Agricultural Ecology

Content items
3content items
Objectives
3objectives
Section topics
12section topics

Syllabus content and objectives

Official WAEC Agricultural Science outline · Section B: Agricultural Ecology

Content

a. Climatic factors e.g. rainfall, temperature, light, wind, relative humidity

Objective

Candidates should be able to explain the effect of climatic factors on crop and animal distribution and production

Content

b. Biotic factors e.g. predators, parasites, soil micro-organisms, pests, pathogens and weeds; interrelationships such as competition, parasitism, mutualism (symbiosis)

Objective

Candidates should be able to explain the effect of biotic factors and their interrelationships

Content

c. Edaphic factors: soil pH, soil texture, soil structure, soil type etc.

Objective

Candidates should be able to explain the effect of edaphic factors

Practice Past Questions on this Topic

Opens the CBT engine with Agricultural Science past questions and answers.

More topics in this section

Open section in the full outline

Done revising Environmental factors affecting crop and animal distribution and production?

Answer Agricultural Science past questions under the same timed conditions as the real CBT exam — then come back and tick off the next topic.