Watershed management is:

Related Mcqs:

1. Government of Pakistan has realized the importance of watershed management and an extensive watershed development programme is being implemented in:

   A. Northern part of the country
   B. Azad Jammu and Kashmir
   C. Both (a) & (b)
   D. None of these

2. Watershed management planning phases is / are:

   A. Reconnaissance Survey
   B. Local or watershed level survey
   C. Watershed inventory
   D. All of the above

3. The importance of watershed management was realized when Pakistan signed Indus Water Treaty with India through which right of water of ______ was given to India while Pakistan has the right on river Indus and Jhelum:

   A. Chenab
   B. Ravi
   C. Sutlij
   D. All of the above

4. The terms and definitions used in watershed management are:

   A. Albedo
   B. Alluvial fans
   C. Alluvium
   D. Aquiclude
   E. All of the above

5. What is the strategy for watershed management?

   A. The importance of integrating the resource bae and sound land use within the web of the catchments making up Pakistan rivers
   B. The production of quality water at the right time & place is a extremely important function of uplans
   C. There is little r public investment o projects related to dams, irrigation, canals and road construction except for governmental funded project
   D. All of the above

6. What are the helping factors of Watershed Management?

   A. To cope with country’s energy crises
   B. Appropriate funds must be allocated
   C. Alternatives must be provided to the local community
   D. Evolve a long watershed policy for conserving the country’s watershed
   E. All of the above

7. What is the object of watershed management?

   A. An increase in agricultural production which maintains the quantity of affordable food available to majority of population
   B. Increasing or maintaining standard of buying of growig population
   C. Increasing Gross National Product and employment opportunities in all areas of nation
   D. Reduce siltation in the major reservoirs like Tarbela & Mangla Dams
   E. All of the above

8. Management constraints – the constraints of management need to be identified in the initial phase of planning:

   A. Physical
   B. Biological
   C. Social
   D. Institutional
   E. All of the above

9. Main watershed regions and their problems are:

   A. The northern mountain region
   B. The uplands of northern Punjab
   C. The western mountain region
   D. The southwest Boluchistan plateau
   E. All of the above

10. A watershed may be just be small depression of the land or it may comprise whole sub-continents as for the large river basins of the earth:

    A. Wolga
    B. Indus
    C. Ganges
    D. Amazonas
    E. All of the above