Water Management Mcqs - Set 10

1)   The field capacity is the water retained by a saturated soil after free drainage of surplus water to the ground water table but the water retained by a saturated soil after being centrifuged by a centrifugal force of 1000 times that of gravity is called________________?

a. Soil moisture
b. Equivalent moisture
c. Field moisture
d. Available moisture
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Equivalent moisture

Explanation:
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2)   Infiltration capacity curve is the graphical representation, as to how the infiltration capacity varies with time after rainfall this curve was represented by ____________________?

a. Darcy
b. Horton
c. Lacy
d. Kennedy
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Horton

Explanation:
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3)   When seepage water after passing the ground water aquifer joins the surface stream, such stream will be called_____________________?

a. Influent stream
b. Effluent stream
c. Rain stream
d. Storm stream
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Influent stream

Explanation:
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4)   A curve showing the maximum flow in the river and mean time reduces flow. we be called___________________?

a. Infiltration capacity
b. Infiltration capacity curve
c. Ground water depletion curve
d. All are correct
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Ground water depletion curve

Explanation:
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5)   The water vapours are generally present in a atmosphere, some times isolated and sometimes mixed with other gases. in such a situation the pressure exerted by each component of mixture, will be called ______________________?

a. Partial pressure
b. Saturation pressure
c. Vapour pressure
d. All are correct
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Partial pressure

Explanation:
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6)   The difference between saturation vapour pressure and actual vapour pressure at a constant temperature is called ___________________?

a. Saturation vapour pressure
b. Actual vapour pressure
c. Saturation deficit
d. Partial pressure
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Saturation deficit

Explanation:
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7)   The ratio between the actual pressure and saturation vapour present at same temperature is called___________________?

a. Absolute Humidity
b. Relative Humidity
c. Low humidity
d. High Humidity
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Relative Humidity

Explanation:
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8)   Pilot tube is a device, which convert velocity head of flowing water into pressure by ____________________?

a. H = v2/2g
b. H = v/g
c. H = v2 / g2
d. H = v2 / g
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: H = v2/2g

Explanation:
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9)   A unit hydrograph is a hydrograph of runoff produced by a rainstorm of a specified duration called ____________________?

a. Unit duration
b. Peak runoff
c. Storm runoff
d. Base flow
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Unit duration

Explanation:
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10)   The floods which exceeds the designed magnitude of a reservoir is called _______________________?

a. High floods
b. Standard protects flood
c. Intensive flood
d. Storm flood
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Standard protects flood

Explanation:
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11)   The area irrigated in the year and it grows crops on which water rates are leveled is called____________________?

a. Area Assessed
b. Area leased
c. Area irrigated
d. Area cultivated
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Area Assessed

Explanation:
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12)   A river which does not change its alignment – slope and its regime significantly is called________________?

a. Aggrading river
b. Degrading river
c. Stable river
d. Deltaic River
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Stable river

Explanation:
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13)   If in a river the flood rises and falls suddenly due to storm rain, then such river is called __________________?

a. Virgin
b. Tidal
c. Flashy
d. Deltaic
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Flashy

Explanation:
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14)   In alluvial river due to the action of centrifugal force, bends are developed by scouring on concave and silting on convex _____________________?

a. Silting & scouring
b. Meandering
c. Aggrading
d. Degrading
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Meandering

Explanation:
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15)   The groyne pointing downwards in the direction of flow in fiver is called________________?

a. Permeable
b. Impermeable
c. repelling
d. Attracting
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Attracting

Explanation:
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16)   When the weight of weir balances the up lift pressure caused by the head of the water seeping below the weir bed is called ___________________?

a. Cippollite weir
b. Broad crested weir
c. Gravity weir
d. Non-gravity weir
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Gravity weir

Explanation:
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17)   The down stream sloping glacis of the Hydraulic structure is made in such a way to form automatically the _____________ and dissipate the surplus energy of flowing water?

a. Afflux
b. Hydraulic jump
c. Pond level
d. HFL
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Hydraulic jump

Explanation:
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18)   The water level required on the upstream side of a canal head regulator, so as to feed the off-taking canal with its full supply is called_________________?

a. HFL
b. FSL
c. Pond level
d. Canal level
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Pond level

Explanation:
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19)   The under sluices in a weir are provided, at the level of upstream floor dispose off the sediment deposited on downstream is called______________________?

a. Under sluices
b. Head sluices
c. Scouring sluices
d. Sluice gates
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Scouring sluices

Explanation:
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20)   The various works constructed on river side to control the flow and pass it safely from hydraulic structures are called ___________________?

a. River controlling works
b. River Training works
c. Marginal Embankment
d. Guide Banks
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: River Training works

Explanation:
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