The property of saturated soil mass which transmits appreciable quantities . water is called___________________?

Related Mcqs:

1. The field capacity is the water retained by a saturated soil after free drainage of surplus water to the ground water table but the water retained by a saturated soil after being centrifuged by a centrifugal force of 1000 times that of gravity is called________________?

   A. Soil moisture
   B. Equivalent moisture
   C. Field moisture
   D. Available moisture

2. The field capacity is the amount of water retained by a saturated soil mass after being acted by gravity. The amount of water required to bring the soil moisture content of that soil up to field capacity is called__________________?

   A. Soil-moisture deficiency
   B. Field-moisture deficiency
   C. Equivalent-moisture deficiency
   D. a and b are correct

3. A channel artificially constructed for water conveyance of appreciable quantities with no problem of silting and scouring is called ____________________?

   A. A regime canal
   B. Stable canal
   C. Alluvial canal
   D. A and B are correct

4. 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

5. The contour of equal water heads and pressure in the soil mass beneath retaining structure are called___________________?

   A. Stream lines
   B. Equipotential lines
   C. Equilibrium lines
   D. Streak lines

6. An impermeable Formation which neither contains water nor transmits water may be called_____________________?

   A. Aquifuge
   B. Aquifer
   C. Aquiclude
   D. Confined-aquifer

7. The law that states that the discharge of sub-soil water is directly proportional to the loss of head and the area of soil sample and inversely proportional to to the length of soil sample ___________________?

   A. Archimed’s principle
   B. Darcy’s law
   C. Permeability law
   D. Thiem’s law

8. When the air in a atmosphere is fully saturated with the vapours present in it, then the pressure exerted by such wet air mass will be called ____________________?

   A. Vapour pressure
   B. Saturation pressure
   C. Partial pressure
   D. Atmospheric pressure

9. 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

10. The line in a flow net which shows the direction of flow of water through a soil mass beneath dam are called _________________?

    A. Equipotential lines
    B. flow lines
    C. Section lines
    D. Streak lines