A. sand
B. silt
C. clay
D. gravel
Related Mcqs:
- According to Atterberg, the soil is said to be of medium plasticity if the plasticity index PI is____________?
A. 0 < PI < 7
B. 7<PI< 17
C. 17<PI27 - If the plasticity index of a soil mass is zero, the soil is______________?
A. sand
B. silt
C. clay
D. clayey silt - When the plastic limit of a soil is greater than the liquid limit, then the plasticity index is reported as_____________?
A. negative
B. zero
C. non-plastic (NP)
D. 1 - For better strength and stability, the fine grained soils and coarse grained soils are compacted respectively as____________________?
A. dry of OMC and wet of OMC
B. wet of OMC and dry of OMC
C. wet of OMC and wet of OMC
D. dry of OMC and dry of OMC where OMC is optimum moisture content - Which of the following methods is best suited for determination of permeability of coarse-grained soils ?
A. constant head method
B. falling head method
C. both the above
D. none of the above - Residual soils are formed by______________?
A. glaciers
B. wind
C. water
D. none of the above - At liquid limit, all soils possess________________?
A. same shear strength of small magnitude
B. same shear strength of large magnitude
C. different shear strengths of small magnitude
D. different shear strengths of large magnitude - Highway Research Board (HRB) classification of soils is based on__________________?
A. particle size composition
B. plasticity characteristics
C. both particle size composition and plasticity characteristics
D. none of the above - Compressibility of sandy soils is______________?
A. almost equal to that of clayey soils
B. much greater than that of clayey soils
C. much less than that of clayey soils
D. none of the above - Rise of water table in cohesionless soils upto ground surface reduces the net ultimate bearing capacity approximately by________________?
A. 25%
B. 50%
C. 75%
D. 90%
