water management MCQs – Page 12

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water management Mcqs
221. The various works constructed on river side to control the flow and pass it safely from hydraulic structures are called ___________________?
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A. River controlling works

B. Marginal Embankment

C. River Training works

D. Guide Banks

222. The area irrigated in the year and it grows crops on which water rates are leveled is called____________________?
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A. Area cultivated

B. Area leased

C. Area irrigated

D. Area Assessed
223. The experiment of capillary rise is performed in a glass tube of smaller diameter, because___________________?
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A. It is easily visible

B. Glass tube is cheaper than metal

C. Capillary rise is significant

D. Glass tube is lighter than metallic tube

224. The property of saturated soil mass which transmits appreciable quantities . water is called___________________?
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A. Porosity

B. Permeability

C. Discharge

D. Transmissibility

225. Torsional force does not act on ____________________?
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A. Steel

B. Liquids

C. Wood

D. Soil

226. The method of irrigation in which each tree is surrounded by a border to form a pool when water is supplied is called ________________?
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A. Border irrigation

B. Check irrigation

C. Furrow irrigation

D. Basin irrigation
227. When the air in a atmosphere is fully saturated with the vapours present in it, then the pressure exerted by such wet air mass will be called ____________________?
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A. Vapour pressure

B. Saturation pressure

C. Atmospheric pressure

D. Partial pressure

228. Silt free water should be supplied to the canals through______________________?
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A. Under sluices

B. Sluice gates

C. Head sluices

D. Scouring sluices

229. To be more close to the actual field conditions, some times artificial rain tests conducted, the instrument used is called ___________________?
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A. Infiltrometer

B. Rain simulator

C. v Hydrometer

D. I.C. curve

230. A water pool is designed on the down stream of the hydraulic structure to dissipate the energy of falling water by providing a water cushion called ______________________?
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A. Water cushion

B. Cistern

C. Down stream pond

D. Water pool

231. Ground water moving down wards in the un-saturated ground above the water table is called___________________?
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A. Capillary water

B. Hygroscopic water

C. All are correct

D. Gravity water
232. A digging out of earth to make trench for any engineering purpose is called ______________________?
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A. Earth filling

B. Cavitations

C. Excavation

D. borrow pitting

233. The meandering pattern of a river is developed by ____________________?
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A. Dominant discharge

B. Average discharge

C. Maximum discharge

D. Critical discharge

234. The invented filter is provided just after the end of concrete floor to reduce () possibility of _________________?
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A. Piping

B. a and b are correct

C. Up thrust

D. Under mining

235. The property of liquid which controls its rate of flow is called __________________?
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A. Viscosity

B. Compressibility

C. Specific gravity

D. Capillarity

236. On relative basis, when one soil is eroded as compared to other soil under same conditions, this property is called __________________?
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A. All are correct

B. Compact ability

C. Viscosity

D. Erodibility
237. Canals normally excavated directly from river without head regulator is called___________________?
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A. Inundation canals

B. Perennial canals

C. Non-perennial canals

D. Water shed canals

238. The unit of kinetic viscosity is equivalent to ______________________?
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A. All are correct

B. cm/sec

C. cm2/sec

D. cm/sec2

239. The specific weight of water at normal pressure of 760 mm, 4C temperature and at mean sea level is ______________________?
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A. 1100kg/m3

B. 1020kg/m3

C. 960kg/m3

D. 1000ka/m3
240. To avoid scouring from end of structure, it is necessary to provide a ________________ at the exit point?
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A. Stone blocks

B. Stone apron

C. Vertical cutoff

D. Stone boom