water management MCQs – Page 15

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water management Mcqs
281. To protect the face of embankment against the attack of wave wash with stone boulders is called _________________?
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A. Armouring

B. Revetment

C. Pitching

D. All are correct

282. A series of vertical steps in a stream made to avoid soil scouring is called ___________________?
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A. Embankment

B. Banks

C. Cascades

D. Levees

283. Direct runoff is the sum of __________________?
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A. Surface run off and flow

B. Sub-surface run off and deep percolation

C. Surface run-off and mass flow

D. Bass flow and ground water run off

284. The mercury in a glass tube assumes convex shape at the top because of_________________________?
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A. Adhesion

B. Surface Tension

C. Viscosity

D. Cohesion

285. Water logging caused by ____________ water, which during excessive irrigation percolates down and join under ground water table?
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A. Hygroscopic

B. Capillary

C. Gravity

D. Free

286. A water rise takes place on down stream of sloping glacis, when a stream of water moving with high velocity and low depth strikes another stream of flow moving with low velocity and high depth, such breakage in water surface is called______________?
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A. Water tide

B. Hydraulic jump

C. Afflux

D. Water wave

287. The free distance on the paddy surface which a wind can travel to any point to rise waves is called_________________?
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A. Wave wash

B. Tide

C. Wave amplitude

D. Fetch
288. The groyne pointing downwards in the direction of flow in fiver is called________________?
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A. Attracting

B. repelling

C. Permeable

D. Impermeable

289. A hydraulic jump to dissipate energy when flow is __________________?
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A. Turbulent flow

B. Shooting flow

C. Critical flow

D. Streaming flow