Water Resources Engineering problems
- 1. Symon's rain gauge is
Options- A. tipping-bucket gauge
- B. weighing type gauge
- C. float recording gauge
- D. non-recording gauge. Discuss
Correct Answer: non-recording gauge.
- 2. The best instrument for measuring the velocity of a stream flow is
Options- A. pitot tube
- B. Price's current meter
- C. surface float
- D. sub-surface float. Discuss
Correct Answer: Price's current meter
- 3. Time of overland flow, is affected by
Options- A. slope of the basin
- B. type of the ground surface
- C. length of the flow path
- D. all the above. Discuss
Correct Answer: all the above.
- 4. The earthen embankments constructed parallel to the river banks at some suitable distance for flood control, are known as
Options- A. floods walls
- B. river walls
- C. levees
- D. dikes
- E. both (c) and (d). Discuss
Correct Answer: both (c) and (d).
- 5. The rainfall at any place is described by
Options- A. its intensity
- B. its duration
- C. its frequency
- D. all the above. Discuss
Correct Answer: all the above.
- 6. If the velocities of flow of a stream of 10 m depth recorded by a current meter at depths of 2 m and 8 m are 0.7 m and 0.3 m respectively, the discharge per unit width of the stream in cubic metres, is
Options- A. 2
- B. 3
- C. 4
- D. 5
- E. 6 Discuss
Correct Answer: 5
- 7. Evaporation losses depend upon
Options- A. area of the water surface and depth of the water
- B. nature of precipitation and type of vegetation
- C. humidity and wind velocity
- D. atmospheric temperature
- E. all the above. Discuss
Correct Answer: all the above.
- 8. Precipitation includes
Options- A. rain
- B. snow
- C. hail
- D. all of these. Discuss
Correct Answer: all of these.
- 9. The surface run off is due to
Options- A. initial rain
- B. residual rain
- C. rain in the net supply interval
- D. all the above. Discuss
Correct Answer: rain in the net supply interval
- 10. Hydrograph is a graphical representation of
Options- A. surface run off
- B. ground water flow
- C. rain fall
- D. discharge flowing in the river
- E. none of these. Discuss
Correct Answer: discharge flowing in the river
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