A spoil bank is formed when the volume of excavated soil is _________________ of embankment filling?

Related Mcqs:

1. Canals normally excavated directly from river without head regulator is called___________________?

   A. Perennial canals
   B. Inundation canals
   C. Non-perennial canals
   D. Water shed canals

2. To protect the face of embankment against the attack of wave wash with stone boulders is called _________________?

   A. Pitching
   B. Armouring
   C. Revetment
   D. All are correct

3. The percentage of the volume of water filled in voids to the total volume of solids of soil grains is called__________________?

   A. Void ratio
   B. Degree of compaction
   C. Degree of saturation
   D. Volume of saturation

4. The soil which are formed due to the weathering effects particularly by movement of water and are high permeable are called _________________?

   A. Alluvial soils
   B. Non-alluvial soils
   C. Impervious soils
   D. Semi-impervious soils

5. The height from the top of the embankment to the normal water level in canal .Dam – Reservoir etc, which allows for small waves to splash without over flow is called___________________?

   A. Free board
   B. Free space
   C. Free faced
   D. Free end –

6. An earth embankment built on one or both sides of a river, some distance away from its banks to control flood is called _______________?

   A. Dyke
   B. Embankment
   C. Marginal embankment
   D. Flood protective bund

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. Volume of water that unit volume of aquifer will give up by gravity pull is called ____________________?

    A. Specific volume
    B. Specific yield
    C. Specific retention
    D. All are correct