RISE KRISHNA SAI PRAKASAM GROUP OF INSTITUTIONS

DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING

III B.TECH (R16) II SEM MID-II EXAMINATION
October-2020

Year & Sem: III/II Branch: B. Tech - Civil Date:

Sub: WATER RESOURCES ENGINEERING-I Time: 90 min. Max. Marks: 20M
Name of the Faculty: kartheek Babu

WATER RESOURCES ENGINEERING-I QUIZ

1. For determination of average annual precipitation in a catchment basin, the best method is
A) Arithmetical method
B) Thiessen’s mean method
C) Isohyetal method
D) None of these
2. For computing the run off volumes of large areas, number of infiltrations used are
A) 2
B) 3
C) 4
D) 5
3. The Quantity of water retained by the sub-soil against gravity is known as
A) Yield
B) Porosity
C) Specific Yield
D) Specific Retention
4. Consumptive use of a crop during growth is the amount of
A) Interception
B) Transpiration
C) Evaporation
D) All the above
5. For the estimate of high floods in fan-shaped catchment the formula used is
A) Dicken’s formula
B) Ryve’s formula
C) Ingli’s formula
D) None of these
6. The deficiency in rain catch due to vertical acceleration of air forced upward over the gage is
A) Greater for heavy rain
B) Greater for lighter rain
C) Greater for large drops
D) Lesser for small rain drops
7. Hydrology is the science which deals with
A) Rain water
B) Sea water
C) Surface & Underground water
D) Flood water
8. The surface run off is due to
A) Initial rain
B) Residual rain
C) Rain in the net supply interval
D) All the above
9. The best instrument for measuring the velocity of a stream flow is
A) Pitot tube
B) Price’s current meter
C) Surface float
D) Sub Surface float
10. Unit Hydrograph is a hydrograph of rain storm of a specified duration resulting from a run off
of
A) 15mm
B) 20mm
C) 25mm
D) 30mm
11. If the due point is greter than 0 0C
A) Due will be formed
B) Frost will be formed
C) Vapours will be formed
D) Neither of these
12. Sharp crested wiers are generally used
A) For large flows
B) For small flows
C) For streams carrying high sediment loads
D) For rivers carrying floating debris
13. Run off is measured in
A) Cum
B) Cum/s
C) Cum/min
D) Cum/hr
14. If the loss due to friction in pipesvis 4mts the total losses in strainer & bends may be taken
as
A) 0.10 mt
B) 0.20 mt
C) 0.50 mt
D) 1 mt
15. In nature water may occur as
A) Liquid
B) Solid
C) Vapour
D) All the above
16. Unit hydrograph theory was enunciated by
A) Merril Bernard
B) W WHarnor
C) Le-roy K Sharman
D) Robert E Horten
17. Absolute humidity in air
A) Decreases in higher altitudes
B) Increases at higher altitudes
C) Remains constant at all altitudes
D) None of these
18. Precipitation caused by lifting of an air mass due to the pressure difference is called
A) Oro graphic precipitation
B) Convective precipitation
C) Cyclonic precipitation
D) None of these
19. The standard height of a standard rain gage is
A) 10cm
B) 20cm
C) 50cm
D) 30cm
20. In India the recording type rain gage is generally used is
A) Weighing type
B) Tipping type
C) Float recording type
D) None of these