PART ll

IRRIGATION AND DRAINAGE

By: DANICA B. GABATILLA

1. The moisture content of the soil when the gravitational water has been
removed is

a. Available moisture b. field capacity c. saturation point d. water holding capacity

ANS: b. field capacity

2. The rate of evapotranspiration of vigorously growing crop that completely

shades the ground and is adequately supplied with soil moisture is

a. Crop water requirement

b. Actual crop evapotranspiration
c. Reference crop evapotranspiration
d. Potential evapotranspiration

ANS: d. Potential evapotranspiration

3. When the rainfall intensity is lower than the infiltration capacity, the actual
infiltration rate is equal to

a. Rainfall intensity
b. Runoff rate
c. Infiltration capacity
d. Saturated hydraulic conductivity

ANS: a. Rainfall intensity

4. The structure that serves as an outlet of water in irrigation canal whereby

water passes through and discharges into the main farm ditch or service
area is called

a. Checkgate b. offtake c. inverted siphon d. turnout

ANS: d. turnout
 5. A structure constructed along supplementary farm ditch at the head of the
internal farm ditch to control and regulate water discharges serving the
farm or group of farms is called

a. turnout b. offtake c. division box d. headgate

ANS: b. offtake

6. The amount of drainage water to be removed per unit time per unit area is
the

a. Drainage requirement b. drainage coefficient c. drain spacing d. drainage volume

ANS: b. drainage coefficient

7. A rectangular channel of 12m width and has a bed slope of 0.00085 and
Manning’s n= 0.015. Compute the normal depth to carry a discharge of 45
cu. meter per second.

a.0.418 m b. 1.48m c. 4.18m d. 8.41m

ANS: b. 1.48m

8. The discharge over a trapezoidal weir is 1.315 cubic meter per second. The
crest length is 2m and the sides are inclined at 75ᶿ 57’ 49” with the
horizontal. Find the head on the weir in meters.

a. 0.050 m b. 50m c. 4.5m d. 0.50m

ANS: d. 0.50m
9. Compute the unidirectional flow in two parallel drains; 1000m apart if the
soil hydraulic conductivity is 12m/day and the water level at the drains are
6 and 8 meters.

a. 0.012m3/day b. 0.007m2/day c. 0.168m3/day d. 0.0005m2/day

ANS: b. 0.007m2/day

10. A hydro site offers a head of 50m and a flow of 1.2 cubic meter per second.
With an alternator speed requirement of 1500rpm in a direct- drive
transmission, compute the specific speed of the turbine for the system.
Assume a turbine efficiency of 70%.

a. 230 b. 2.30 c. 3.20 d. 320

ANS: a. 230

11. An orifice has a coefficient of discharge of 0.62 and a coefficient of

contraction of 0.63. Determine the coefficient of velocity for the orifice.

a. 984 b. 0.0984 c. 0.984 d. 9.84

ANS: c. 0.984