The soil which are formed due to the weathering effects particularly by movement of water and are high permeable are 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. The hydraulic structures like dams, barrages constructed on permeable foundations are likely to fail due to ___________________?

   A. Piping
   B. Crushing
   C. Sliding
   D. All the above

4. 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

5. A water rise takes place on down stream of sloping glacis, when a stream of water moving with high velocity and low depth strikes another stream of flow moving with low velocity and high depth, such breakage in water surface is called______________?

   A. Water wave
   B. Water tide
   C. Hydraulic jump
   D. Afflux

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

   A. Less than
   B. Excess
   C. Equal to
   D. Not required

7. The minimum moisture content at which a water drop if placed on a smooth surface of soil will not be absorbed immediately by the soil is called __________________?

   A. Soil moisture content
   B. Moisture content
   C. Soil saturation
   D. All are correct

8. A dam which the up lift pressure of the sub-soil water by its own weight is called _________________?

   A. Buttress dam
   B. Arch dam
   C. Gravity dam
   D. Concrete dam

9. 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

10. 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