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This section includes 276 Mcqs, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your Agriculture knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.
| 151. |
The angle between a head regulator and entrance of water, for smooth entry of water in a canal is kept as _________________? |
| A. | 90° |
| B. | 100° |
| C. | 110° |
| D. | 120° |
| Answer» D. 120° | |
| 152. |
The _________ analysis of earth dam foundation against shear must be carried out when the foundation is kept on fine loose cohesion less material? |
| A. | Stability |
| B. | Suitability |
| C. | Overturning |
| D. | Failure |
| Answer» B. Suitability | |
| 153. |
The amount of moisture content present in the air, when it is expressed as weight per unit volume is called ________________? |
| A. | Humidity |
| B. | Absolute Humidity |
| C. | relative humidity |
| D. | All are correct |
| Answer» C. relative humidity | |
| 154. |
The aeration of water is done to remove _________________? |
| A. | Odour |
| B. | Smell |
| C. | Colour |
| D. | Taste |
| Answer» D. Taste | |
| 155. |
Readily available moisture is the % of moisture that is always easily available to plant and this moisture is called _________________? |
| A. | 70% |
| B. | 75% |
| C. | 80% |
| D. | 85% |
| Answer» D. 85% | |
| 156. |
Rabi crops pertains to ___________________? |
| A. | Throughout the year |
| B. | Summer season |
| C. | Monsoon season |
| D. | Winter season |
| Answer» E. | |
| 157. |
Presently percentage of area irrigation to that of total cultivated area in our country is __________________? |
| A. | 80% |
| B. | 60% |
| C. | 40% |
| D. | 27% |
| Answer» E. | |
| 158. |
Pilot tube is a device, which convert velocity head of flowing water into pressure by ____________________? |
| A. | H = v2/2g |
| B. | H = v/g |
| C. | H = v2 / g2 |
| D. | H = v2 / g |
| Answer» B. H = v/g | |
| 159. |
Piezometer tube is open to both ends mostly used to measure ____________________? |
| A. | Atmospheric pressure |
| B. | gauge pressure |
| C. | Vacuum pressure |
| D. | absolute pressure |
| Answer» C. Vacuum pressure | |
| 160. |
Permissible velocity of water flowing through concrete lined tunnel is usually __________________? |
| A. | 3 – 4m/sec |
| B. | 4 – 5m/sec |
| C. | 5 – 6m/sec |
| D. | 6 – 7m/sec |
| Answer» C. 5 – 6m/sec | |
| 161. |
Out/ of a well water is more than canal water because____________________? |
| A. | Conveyance losses in well irrigation are less |
| B. | Well water is clear than canal water |
| C. | Lifting of water increase cost of well water |
| D. | Well water is used economically |
| Answer» B. Well water is clear than canal water | |
| 162. |
Onion is a ___________ rooted crop? |
| A. | Shallow |
| B. | Deep |
| C. | Non-rooted |
| D. | Spread |
| Answer» B. Deep | |
| 163. |
On relative basis, when one soil is eroded as compared to other soil under same conditions, this property is called __________________? |
| A. | Compact ability |
| B. | Erodibility |
| C. | Viscosity |
| D. | All are correct |
| Answer» C. Viscosity | |
| 164. |
__________% of total global water is saline and available in oceans ? |
| A. | 95% |
| B. | 96% |
| C. | 97% |
| D. | 97.5% |
| Answer» E. | |
| 165. |
_________% of total global water is fresh and its major portion is obtained from Rains ? |
| A. | 2% |
| B. | 2.5% |
| C. | 3% |
| D. | 3.2% |
| Answer» C. 3% | |
| 166. |
Now- a -days the hydraulic structures are designed. Keeping in view the flow net, this was given by __________________? |
| A. | Blight |
| B. | Khosla |
| C. | Lane |
| D. | Darcy |
| Answer» C. Lane | |
| 167. |
Net irrigation + field irrigation losses are the requirement of _____________________? |
| A. | Full irrigation |
| B. | Field irrigation |
| C. | Furrow irrigation |
| D. | Basin irrigation |
| Answer» C. Furrow irrigation | |
| 168. |
Mostly the salt of calcium and Magnesium can not cause ________________? |
| A. | Salinity |
| B. | Alkalinity |
| C. | Poisoning |
| D. | Turbidity |
| Answer» D. Turbidity | |
| 169. |
Mostly the hydraulic structures founded on ____________ soils fails because of undermining and uplift pressure? |
| A. | Stable |
| B. | Rocky |
| C. | Impermeable |
| D. | Permeable |
| Answer» E. | |
| 170. |
Mercury does not wet the glass because of its property of ______________________? |
| A. | Capillary |
| B. | Surface tension |
| C. | Compressibility |
| D. | Viscosity |
| Answer» C. Compressibility | |
| 171. |
Mean velocity of flow in a river can be directly measured by means of ______________________? |
| A. | Dickne’s formula |
| B. | Current meter |
| C. | Surface floats |
| D. | Rod floats |
| Answer» E. | |
| 172. |
Land containing high percentage of alkalies may be reclaimed by addition of_____________________? |
| A. | Caso4 |
| B. | Gypsum |
| C. | Chemicals |
| D. | Caco3 |
| Answer» B. Gypsum | |
| 173. |
Khosla provided a seepage theory for design of Hydraulic structures called________________? |
| A. | Theory of seepage |
| B. | Method of independent variables |
| C. | Method of cutoffs |
| D. | Creep theory |
| Answer» C. Method of cutoffs | |
| 174. |
It is important to keep the saturation gradient line within the body of a embankment of canal, the saturation gradient line in loomy soils lie at___________________? |
| A. | 1:2 to 1:4 |
| B. | 1:3 to 1:5 |
| C. | 1:4 to 1:6 |
| D. | 1:5 to 1:7 |
| Answer» D. 1:5 to 1:7 | |
| 175. |
Infiltration capacity curve is the graphical representation, as to how the infiltration capacity varies with time after rainfall this curve was represented by ____________________? |
| A. | Darcy |
| B. | Horton |
| C. | Lacy |
| D. | Kennedy |
| Answer» C. Lacy | |
| 176. |
In the initial stage of rainfall, when soil moisture available in the root zone is very low, the rate of infiltration ? |
| A. | Increases |
| B. | Reduces |
| C. | remain stagnant |
| D. | Normal |
| Answer» B. Reduces | |
| 177. |
In study of a granular material sliding on plane ground, the angle between the perpendicular and the surface in static condition is called ___________________? |
| A. | Angle of friction |
| B. | Angle of internal friction |
| C. | Angle of repose |
| D. | All are correct |
| Answer» B. Angle of internal friction | |
| 178. |
In ogee spillway the discharge is directly proportional to _______________________? |
| A. | H1/2 |
| B. | H1/3 |
| C. | H3/2 |
| D. | H1/4 |
| Answer» D. H1/4 | |
| 179. |
in most economical Trapezoidal section, half of the Top width is equal to _________________? |
| A. | Bottom width of channel |
| B. | Depth of channel |
| C. | Sloping side of channel |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» D. None of these | |
| 180. |
In high floods, to avoid spilling of flood water over the gates, a wall is provided from pond level to high Flood level. This wall spans for the entire length of regulator, rest on piers, sustain water pressure by its weight called_____________________? |
| A. | Retaining wall |
| B. | Divide wall |
| C. | Breast wall |
| D. | Cantilever wall |
| Answer» D. Cantilever wall | |
| 181. |
In case of silt deposition in the dam reservoir to dispose of the effectively ________________ be used? |
| A. | Vortex pipes |
| B. | Silt excluders |
| C. | Silt ejectors |
| D. | All are correct |
| Answer» B. Silt excluders | |
| 182. |
In alluvial river due to the action of centrifugal force, bends are developed by scouring on concave and silting on convex _____________________? |
| A. | Silting & scouring |
| B. | Meandering |
| C. | Aggrading |
| D. | Degrading |
| Answer» C. Aggrading | |
| 183. |
In a river the flood water dries up before it joins the sea or any other river, such river is called ________________? |
| A. | Flashy |
| B. | Virgin |
| C. | Tidal |
| D. | Deltaic |
| Answer» C. Tidal | |
| 184. |
If the weir flood is designed continuous with divide piers as reinforced structure,such that the weight of divide piers, keep the structure safe against uplift, is called__________________? |
| A. | Non-gravity weir |
| B. | Gravity weir |
| C. | Sharp crested weir |
| D. | Rectangular weir |
| Answer» B. Gravity weir | |
| 185. |
If the duration of a unit hydrograph approaches zero, the resulting unit hydrograph is called __________________? |
| A. | Instantaneous unit hydrograph |
| B. | Intensity unit hydrograph |
| C. | Unit hydrograph |
| D. | Unit hyetgoraph |
| Answer» B. Intensity unit hydrograph | |
| 186. |
if the depth of water in an open channel is greater than the critical depth, the flow is called________________? |
| A. | Critical depth |
| B. | Non-critical flow |
| C. | Sub-critical flow |
| D. | Shooting flow |
| Answer» D. Shooting flow | |
| 187. |
If in a river the flood rises and falls suddenly due to storm rain, then such river is called __________________? |
| A. | Virgin |
| B. | Tidal |
| C. | Flashy |
| D. | Deltaic |
| Answer» D. Deltaic | |
| 188. |
If E1 is the energy before the hydraulic jump and E2 is the energy after the hydraulic jump the efficiency of jump is then given by _____________________? |
| A. | E2 – E1 |
| B. | E2 / E1 |
| C. | E1 – E2 |
| D. | E1 / E2 |
| Answer» C. E1 – E2 | |
| 189. |
If a river or stream is collecting sediment and is building up dunes in its bed is called ______________________? |
| A. | Stable river |
| B. | Sub-stable river |
| C. | Aggrading river |
| D. | Sediment river |
| Answer» D. Sediment river | |
| 190. |
Hydrology is the science which deals with the depletion and recharge of water resources yearly therefore. its knowledge is a must to _________________ properly the water resources? |
| A. | Develop |
| B. | Manage |
| C. | Remodel |
| D. | Rehabilitate |
| Answer» C. Remodel | |
| 191. |
Hydraulic structures are designed for a safe flow of flood. The floods which are equal in designed magnitude life of the project is called _____________________? |
| A. | High floods |
| B. | Ordinary floods |
| C. | Low floods |
| D. | Probable flood |
| Answer» E. | |
| 192. |
hail is precipitation in the form of balls or lumps of ice of size greater than _______________ formed by alternate freezing & melting? |
| A. | 5 mm diameter |
| B. | 10 mm diameter |
| C. | 15 mm diameter |
| D. | 20 mm diameter |
| Answer» B. 10 mm diameter | |
| 193. |
Ground water moving down wards in the un-saturated ground above the water table is called___________________? |
| A. | Hygroscopic water |
| B. | Capillary water |
| C. | Gravity water |
| D. | All are correct |
| Answer» D. All are correct | |
| 194. |
generally useful life of a reservoir is considered terminated when its -gross storage is reduced by _______________ of the design capacity of the reservoir? |
| A. | 100% |
| B. | 80% |
| C. | 50% |
| D. | 20% |
| Answer» C. 50% | |
| 195. |
From a water fall, if water is falling down at the rate of 100 N/sec: on the blades of a turbine when the height of fall is 100 m the power delivered to turbine will be______________? |
| A. | 1000 kw |
| B. | 10,000 kw |
| C. | 100 kw |
| D. | 5000 kw |
| Answer» C. 100 kw | |
| 196. |
Friction head loss in open channels is determined by_________________? |
| A. | Chezy’s formula |
| B. | Darcy weisbach equation |
| C. | Kutter’s formula |
| D. | Pilot tube |
| Answer» C. Kutter’s formula | |
| 197. |
For strong Hydraulic jump containing maximum energy, the down stream glacis should be sloped at a slope of ______________ to dissipate max: energy? |
| A. | 2:1 to 2.5:1 |
| B. | 2.5:1 to 3:1 |
| C. | 3:1 to 5:1 |
| D. | 5:1 to 6 |
| Answer» D. 5:1 to 6 | |
| 198. |
For an economical design of gravity dam, the shear friction factor causec compression strength should lie between____________________? |
| A. | 1.5 to 4.0 |
| B. | 2.0 to 4.0 |
| C. | 2.5 to 4.5 |
| D. | 3 to 5 |
| Answer» B. 2.0 to 4.0 | |
| 199. |
For a perfect incompressible liquid flowing in a continuous stream, the total energy of a particle remain the same, while the liquid particle move from one point to another this statement is called ___________________? |
| A. | Continuity Equation |
| B. | Pascal s law |
| C. | Bernoulli equation |
| D. | Archimede’s principle |
| Answer» D. Archimede’s principle | |
| 200. |
For a flood control reservoirs, the effective storage is equal to ___________________? |
| A. | Useful storage – valley storage |
| B. | Useful storage + surcharge storage |
| C. | Useful storage + surcharge storage |
| D. | Useful storage + surcharge storage -valley storage |
| Answer» E. | |