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  • Question
  • Pick up the correct statement from the following:


  • Options
  • A. Gravity water is harmful to crops
  • B. Hygroscopic water remains attached to soil molecules by chemical bond
  • C. Capillary moisture held in the soil pores against gravity by surface tension, is utilised by plants
  • D. All the above.

  • Correct Answer
  • Capillary moisture held in the soil pores against gravity by surface tension, is utilised by plants 


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    • 1. For a unique design of a channel by Kennedy's theory

    • Options
    • A. its breadth must only be known
    • B. its depth must only be known
    • C. its breadth and depth ratio must only be known
    • D. all the above.
    • Discuss
    • 2. The Lacey's regime velocity is proportional to

    • Options
    • A. R1/2 S3/4
    • B. Q3/4 S1/3
    • C. R3/4 S1/3
    • D. R2/3 S1/2
    • Discuss
    • 3. The length and width of a meander and also the width of the river, vary roughly as

    • Options
    • A. square root of the discharge
    • B. discharge
    • C. square of the discharge
    • D. cube of the discharge.
    • Discuss
    • 4. A minimum of 90 cm free board is provided if the discharge in the canal is between

    • Options
    • A. 30 to 33 cumecs
    • B. 30 to 60 cumecs
    • C. Over 60 cumecs
    • D. Over 100 cumecs
    • Discuss
    • 5. An outlet which maintains a constant discharge irrespective of fluctuation in the water levels of the supplying channel or water course, is known as

    • Options
    • A. non-modular outlet
    • B. semi-modular outlet
    • C. flexible modular outlet
    • D. right modular outlet.
    • Discuss
    • 6. The ratio of the discharge over a trapezoidal crest to a rectangular crest of Sarda falls of identical parameters, is

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    • A. 1.084
    • B. 1.074
    • C. 1.064
    • D. 1.054
    • E. 2.053
    • Discuss
    • 7. If A is the area of the surface, x is the depth of its C.G. from the surface of the water and ? is the density of water, then

    • Options
    • A. total pressure on the surface is equal to ? x
    • B. depth of the point at which total pressure acts is equal to its moment of inertia divided by A x
    • C. depth of the centre of pressure is 2/3H vertically below the surface
    • D. all the above.
    • Discuss
    • 8. A land is said to be water-logged if its soil pores within

    • Options
    • A. a depth of 40 cm are saturated
    • B. a depth of 50 cm are saturated
    • C. root zone of the crops are saturated
    • D. all the above.
    • Discuss
    • 9. In rigid module, the discharge

    • Options
    • A. is independent of water levels in the distributary and water course
    • B. depends upon the water level in distributary
    • C. depends upon the water level in the water course
    • D. depends upon the water levels of both, i.e. distributary and water course
    • E. none of these.
    • Discuss
    • 10. The uplift pressure on the roof of an inverted syphon, is maximum when

    • Options
    • A. drain in running dry
    • B. canal is running dry
    • C. canal is running with F.S.L.
    • D. drain is running with H.F.L.
    • Discuss


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