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  • Precipitation caused due to upward movement of warmer air as compared to surrounding air, is called


  • Options
  • A. cyclonic precipitation
  • B. convective precipitation
  • C. orographic precipitation
  • D. none of these.

  • Correct Answer
  • convective precipitation 


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    • 1. Humidity refers to

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    • A. temperature of the air
    • B. pressure of the air
    • C. moisture content of the air
    • D. volume of the air.
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    • 2. The recurrence interval (R.I.) of 20 cm rain storm at a place is 5 years.

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    • A. The place will definitely have 20 cm rain storm after every five years
    • B. The place may have 20 cm rain storm after every five years
    • C. The place may have 20 cm rain storm within a set of 5 years twice
    • D. None of these.
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    • 3. The rational formula for calculating the discharge, is (where A is the area of basin and Po is one hour rainfall)

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    • A.
    • B.
    • C.
    • D.
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    • 4. If the dew point is greater than 0°C

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    • A. dew will be formed
    • B. frost will be formed
    • C. vapours will be formed
    • D. neither of these.
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    • 5. The equation P - Q = Te ?index for determining the infiltration capacity, was suggested by

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    • A. Horton
    • B. Horner
    • C. Llyod
    • D. Bernard.
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    • 6. An intense rain is falling at a uniform rate of 7.5 cm/hour for a period of 60 minutes on a basin whose areas is 500 hectares. If the average infiltration capacity during the entire rain period is assumed to be 1.5 cm/hr, the maximum run-off rate based on 10 minute peak percentage of 16% from distributing graph of the basin, is

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    • A. 40 cumecs
    • B. 60 cumecs
    • C. 80 cumecs
    • D. 100 cumecs.
    • Discuss
    • 7. Water is useful for

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    • A. running hydroelectric turbines
    • B. floating the boats and ships
    • C. providing steam for running locomotives
    • D. warming dwelling units
    • E. all the above.
    • Discuss
    • 8. Pick up the correct statement from the following :

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    • A. Yield of a drainage basin is the run off at any time
    • B. Yield of a drainage basin is the run off over long periods
    • C. Yield of a drainage basin is expressed as surface run off per year
    • D. Run off is expressed as total volume per day
    • E. None of these.
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    • 9. Bernard's distribution graph is a plot of time on X-axis and

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    • A. run off on the y-axis
    • B. total run off on the y-axis
    • C. percentage of total surface run off on y-axis
    • D. percentage of total surface run off during uniform time intervals on y-axis
    • E. none of these.
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    • 10. If the axial length of a drainage basin is 35 km and its form factor is 0.2, the total area of the basin is

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    • A. 205 sq. km.
    • B. 215 sq. km.
    • C. 225 sq. km.
    • D. 235 sq. km.
    • E. 245 sq. km.
    • Discuss


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