VEGA COACHING INSTITUTE
Isohyets
HYDROLOGY SUBJECT TEST
Subject test-Hydrology
Each question carries 1 mark and each
wrong/null answer shall be rewarded
negative 1/3 marks.
1. Precipitation caused by lifting of air
mass due to pressure difference is
a. Cyclonic precipitation
b. Convective precipitation
c. Orographic precipitation
d. None of these
2. Double mass curve technique is
followed to
a. Estimate the missing rainfall data
b. Obtain intensities of rainfall at
various duration
c. Check the inconsistency of data
d. Obtain the amount of storage
needed to maintain a demand
pattern
3. The most accurate method of finding
the average depth of rainfall over an
area is
a. Isohyetal method
b. Arithmetic mean method
c. Thiessen polygon method
d. All of the above
4. The mass curve is a plot of
a. Cumulative discharge and time
b. Accumulated precipitation and
time
c. Rainfall intensity and time
d. Amount of precipitation and time
5. A rainfall intensity of 5mm/h is
classified as
a. Trace
b. Light rain
c. Moderate rain
d. Heavy rain
6. A plot between rainfall intensity vs
time is known as
a.
b. Hyetograph
c. Hydrograph
d. Mass curve
7. If coefficient of variation of rainfall
values at 4 raingauge station is 30%
and permissible error in estimation of
rainfall is 10% then additional number
of raingauges required for catchment
is
a. 3
b. 4
c. 5
d. 9
8. According to Indian Meterological
Department, a year is considered a
drought year in case the total area
affected exceeds
a. 10% of the total area of the
country
b. 20% of the total area of the
country
c. 50% of the total area of the
country
d. 75% of the total area of the
country
9. Phytometer is generally used for
measurement of
a. Transpiration
b. Evaporation
c. Interception
d. Evapotranspiration
10. The runoff increase with
a. Increase with intensity of rain
b. Increase with infiltration capacity
c. Increase with permeability of soil
d. All of these
11. A hydrograph is a plot of
a. Precipitation against time
b. Direct run-off against time
c. Stream flow against time
d. Surface run-off against time
12. The shape of the recession limb
a. Storm characteristics only
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 b. Basin characteristics only 18. Calibration of a current meter for use,
c. Both a and b in channel flow measurement is done
d. None of the above in a
13. The Muskinghum method of flood a. Wind tunnel
routing is b. Water tunnel
a. Form of reservoir routing method c. Towing tank
b. Hydraulic routing method d. Flume
c. Complete numerical solution of St 19. Which of the following characteristics
Venant equations describes a watershed system in
d. Hydrologic channel-routing system’s parlance?
method a. Linear
14. The moving average of annual b. Non-linear
precipitation record is carried out to c. Linear and time-invariant
determine d. Non-linear and time-variant
a. Trend 20. Unit hydrograph method is usually
b. Annual mean adopted for estimating floods when
c. Extreme annual variation the catchment area is
d. Extreme seasonal variation a. 100 sq km only
15. Which one of the following defines b. Less than 5000 sq km
Aridity Index(AI)? c. More than 7500 sq km
a. AI= x 100 d. More than 10000 sq km
21. Probability of a 10 year flood to occur
b. AI= x 100
at least once in the next 4 years is
c. AI= x 100 a. 25%
d. AI= x 100 b. 35%
c. 50%
16. What is the Probable Maximum
d. 65%
Precipitation(PMP)?
22. Which of the following flood routing
a. Projected precipitation for a 100
methods involve the concepts of
year return period
wedge and prism storages?
b. Maximum precipitation for all
a. Coefficient method
past recorded storms
b. Muskingum method
c. Upper limit of rainfall, which is
c. Pul’s method
justified climatologically
d. Lag method
d. Effective precipitable water
23. A culvert is designed for a flood
17. Penman’s equation is based on
magnitude of return period 100 years
a. Energy budgeting only
and has expected life of 20 years. The
b. Energy budgeting and water
risk in this hydrologic design is
budgeting
a. 1-0.9920
c. Energy budgeting and mass
b. 1-0.0120
transfer
c. 1-0.0920
d. Water budgeting and mass
d. 1-0.1020
transfer
24. S-curve hydrograph is the hydrograph

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 a. Producing 1 cm of runoff over the 30. The ratio of the ‘average width’ to the
basin ‘axial length’ of a drainage basin, is
b. Of flow from a 1 cm intensity rain called:
of infinite duration a. Compactness coefficient
c. Having volume of 1cm3 b. Ratio factor
d. Of the total storm duration in any c. Form factor
single storm rainfall d. Runoff factor
25. The area under a hyetograph 31. The water year in India starts from
represents the first day of
a. Total precipitation received in a. January
that period b. April
b. Total runoff received in the period c. June
c. Average intensity of rainfall d. September
received in the period 32. An ephemeral stream
d. Total intensity of rainfall received a. Is one which always carries some
in the period flow
26. A contour of constant rainfall is b. Does not have any base flow
known as contribution
a. Isopluvial c. Is one which has limited
b. Isopleth contribution of groundwater in
c. Isohyet wet season
d. Isochrone d. Is one which carries only snow
27. The hydrologic flood-routing methods melt water
use 33. The dilution method of stream
a. Equation of continuity only gauging is ideally suited for measuring
b. Both momentum and continuity discharges in
equations a. A large alluvial river
c. Energy equation only b. Flood flow in a mountain terrain
d. Equation of motion only c. Steady flow in a small turbulent
28. Clark’s method aims at which one of stream
the following? d. A stretch of a river having heavy
a. Developing an IUH due to an industrial pollution loads
instantaneous rainfall excess over 34. The slope area method is extensively
catchment used in
b. Developing stage-discharge a. Development of rating curve
relationship b. Estimation of flood discharge
c. Measurement of infiltration based on high water marks
d. Flood routing through channels c. Cases where shifting control exists
29. The unit of area of a hydrograph may d. Cases where backwater effect is
be present
a. Metre 35. Which of the following instruments is
b. Sq-m not connected with stream flow
c. Cu-m measurement
d. Cumecs a. Hygrometer

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 b. Echo-depth recorder b. At the same pressure
c. Electromagnetic flow meter c. In the same volume
d. Sounding weight d. In the atmosphere
36. The average pan coefficient for the 43. The rainfall cyle period in India is
standard US weather Bureau class A taken as
pan is a. 20 years
a. 0.85 b. 25 years
b. 0.70 c. 30 years
c. 0.90 d. 35 years
d. 0.20 44. Dicken’s formula for high flood
37. Lysimeter is used to measure estimate, is useful only for the
a. Infiltration catchments in
b. Evaporation a. Southern India
c. Evapotranspiration b. Northern India
d. Vapour pressure c. Eastern India
38. The standard Symons type raingauge d. Western India
has a collecting area of diameter 45. The geological formation which
a. 12.7 cm contains and readily yields water is
b. 10 cm called
c. 5.08 cm a. Aquifer
d. 25.4 cm b. Aquifuge
39. Mass curve of precipitation is c. Aquitard
produced by a raingauge of d. Aquiclude
a. Symons type 46. In a water table if the porosity is 30%
b. Tipping bucket type and the specific retention is 10%,
c. Storage type what is the specific yield of the
d. Natural siphon type aquifer
40. For a storm of a given duration, the a. 20%
average depth of rainfall over an area b. 40%
a. Increases with the area c. 50%
b. Decreases linearly with the area d. 30%
c. Has no relation with the area 47. Ryve’s method for flood estimate in
d. Decreases exponentially with the cumecs is
area a. Q=CA3/4
41. Rain simulators are used for the b. Q=CA1/4
determination of c. Q=CA5/6
a. Evaporation d. Q=CA2/3
b. Precipitation 48. A 6 hour storm with intensities of 5, 7,
c. Runoff 12, 20, 16 and 2 mm/hr produced a
d. Infiltration capacity runoff of 30 mm. Then ɸ-index is
42. Relative humidity is the ratio of actual a. 6.25mm/hr
vapour pressure to the saturation b. 5.33mm/hr
vapour vapour pressure c. 6.00mm/hr
a. At the same temperature d. 5.00mm/hr

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49. The average annual rainfall over the
whole of India is estimated as
a. 86cm
b. 119cm
c. 189cm
d. 160cm
50. The salinity of water
a. Reduce the evaporation
b. Increases the evaporation
c. Does not affect evaporation
d. First reduce then increases