1.

The bringing back to original /positive condition is known as

a) Modernization
b) Rehabilitation
c) water management
d) optimization

2. -----------------------------indicators are needed to access the performance in irrigation system in

terms of water delivery.

a. Maintenance
b. Protection
c. Performance
d. water management

3. The process of delivering desired land slope in the direction of irrigation by changing natural land
slope called as

a. land levelling
b. land smoothing
c. Land grading
d. land sliding

4. The process of making the most effective use of water in minimal situation.

a. Rehabilitation
b. modernization
c. optimization
d. PIM

5. Which instrument used to determine watering duration and frequencies on a daily basic based on
the real time weather condition?

a. Pressure regulation
b. Smart controllers
c. Control structure
d. Convert to drip irrigation

6. The process of developing surface relief of the land to a planned grade to provide better aeration
and efficient water application on farm

a. land levelling
b. land smoothing
c. Land grading
d. land forming

7. PIM stands for

a. participation irrigation management

b. public irrigation management
c. public irrigation matter
 d. participation irrigation matter

8. The process of upgrading infrastructure, operation and management of irrigation systems to

sustain the water delivery service requirements of farmers and optimize production and water
productivity is known as

a. Rehabilitation
b. modernization
c. optimization
d. PIM

9. The process of giving zero slope in the direction of irrigation as as well as in cross direction.

a. land levelling
b. land smoothing
c. Land grading
d. land forming

10. Irrigation water losses incudes

a. air losses
b. water surface evaporation
c. deep percolation
d. all of the above

11. The items of works pertaining to on form water management are termed as

a. on form requirement works

b. on form development works
c. on form management works
d. none of the above

12. Which losses include due to water held on the plant?

a. air losses
b. water surface evaporation
c. deep percolation
d. canopy losses

13. The ratio o of crop production to cropped area is

a. efficiency
b. yield
c. output
d. performance

14. The ratio of value of production to command area is

a. Output per unit cropped area

b. Output per unit command area
c. Annual yield
 d. yield

15. The ratio of value of production to cost of production is

a. Fee collection index

b. Resource utilization
c. Total production
d. Annual yield

Irrigation engineering online test 2

canal regulations - direct sluice - canal drop - cross drainage works-canal outlets - design of
prismatic canal-canal alignments-canal lining - kennedy s and lacey s regime theory-design
of unlined canal

1. The discharge value of water is controlled by?

a) Hydraulic Jump
b) Falls
c) Regulators
d) Velocity of the flow

2. 3. What is the other name for canal escape?

a) Canal Outlet
b) Escape
c) Surplus Water Escape
d) Canal Inlet

3 What is the main purpose of the canal escape?

a) To Maintain Uniform Flow in the Canal
b) To Remove Surplus Water
c) To Maintain Constant Velocity of the Flow
d) To Help for Proper Hydraulic Jump

4. Which type of canal escape does the figure represent?

a) Weir Type Escape

b) Regular Type Escape
c) Venturi Flume
d) Surplus Water Escape

5. Which of the following Cross Drainage works carry drainage over the canal?
a) Aqueduct and Syphon Aqueduct
b) Super passage and Syphon
c) Level-crossing and inlets outlets
d) Canal Syphon and Aqueduct

6. The crossing arrangement preferably made at the junction of a huge canal and a river stream
carrying a short-lived high flood discharge at almost equal bed levels is a __________
a) Super passage
b) Aqueduct
c) Level crossing
d) Canal syphon

7. What type of fall does diagram represent?

a) Simple Vertical Drop Fall

b) Inglis Fall
c) Straight Glacis Fall
d) Ogee Fall

8.  What type of fall does the diagram depict?

a) Ogee Fall
b) Trapezoidal Notch Fall
c) Simple Vertical Drop Type Fall
d) Straight Glacis Fall

9.  What type of losses can be mainly avoided by lining the canals?

a) Evaporation Losses
b) Seepage Losses
c) Erosion of Canal Bed
d) Discharge Losses at Branch Canals

10.  What type of major dangers can the lining of canals extinguish?
a) Leakages
b) Floods
c) Water-logging
d) Seepage Losse

11.  What is the range of value of Manning’s coefficient for straight alignment for cast in-situ
concrete lining?
a) 0.012 – 0.015
b) 0.015 – 0.018
c) 0.018 – 0.020
d) 0.020 – 0.025

12. A flexible membrane impregnated with tar or bitumen is spread over the subgrade in
_________________
a) Asphalt lining
b) Soil-cement lining
c) Cement mortar lining
d) Puddle clay lining

13. According to Lacey what factor is needed to have a true regime in an artificial channel?
a) Flow is Uniform
b) Critical Velocity = Actual Velocity
c) No Silting or Scouring Action
d) Lining of the Channel Bed

14. According to Kennedy the silting action in channels is due to?

a) Generation of Eddies
b) Slope of the Bed
c) Area of Channel
d) Type of Flow in the Channel

15. A velocity which will just keep the silt in suspension, without scouring the channel is known
as………..

a. Design velocity

b. Non-silting & Non-scouring velocity

c. flow Velocity

d. Theoretical velocity

16. Which type of canal is the farmer’s responsibility?

a) Contour Canal
b) Side Slope Canal
c) Watershed Canal
d) Field Channel

17. On flatlands what type of canal alignment is used?

a) Side Slope Canal
b) Contour Canal
c) Watershed Canal
d) Field Channel

18. What is the main purpose of canal outlet?

a) To Connect Head with a Minor Channel
b) To Avoid Leakage
c) To Avoid Exit Gradient
d) For Proper Discharge

19. A cross-drainage work is called a super passage, when it carries the canal water:

(a) Below the drainage under pressure

(b) Below the drainage at atmospheric pressure.

(c) Above the drainage at atmospheric pressure

(d) None of the above.

20. The drainage water is sometimes allowed to join the canal water to augment canal supplies,
through a hydraulic structure, called:

(a) canal outlet

(b) canal inlet

(c) module

(d) level crossing.

of impounding structures - gravity dam - forces on a dam -design of gravity dams; earth
dams, arch dams- diversion head works - weirs and barrages-

1. Portion of dam in contact with ground at downstream side is __________

a) Crest
b) Toe
c) Foot
d) Heel

2. The cross section below shows a

a) Earth
b) Buttress
c) Gravity
d) Arch

3. Which of the below is an example for arch dam?

a) Bhakra Nangal Dam
b) Banasura Sagar Dam
c) Idukki Dam
d) Bisalpur Dam
4. _________ is a temporary dam constructed to exclude water from a specific area.
a) Debris dam
b) Diversion dam
c) Coffer dam
d) Storage dam

5. Earth dams are _________ in shape.

a) Triangular
b) Rectangular
c) Trapezoidal
d) Circular

6.  ___________ is the arrangement made near top of dam for passage of excess water from the
reservoir.
a) Sluice way
b) Spillway
c) Gallery
d) Abutments

7. For full reservoir condition in a gravity dam, the critical combination of vertical and horizontal
earthquake accelerations to be considered for checking the stability is
________________________
a) Vertically upward and horizontally downstream
b) Vertically downward and horizontally downstream
c) Vertically upward and horizontally upstream
d) Vertically downward and horizontally upstream

8. Presence of tail-water in a gravity dam ____________________

a) Increases the principal stress and decreases the shear stress
b) Increases both the principal stress and the shear stress
c) Decreases the principal stress and increases the shear stress
d) Decreases both the principal stress and the shear stress

9.  Which of the following earth dam is suitable only on impervious foundation?

a) Zoned embankment type
b) Homogenous embankment type
c) Non-homogenous type
d) Diaphragm type

10. Which of the following forces is the least important in the design of arch dams?
a) Reservoir water force
b) Uplift pressure
c) Temperature stresses
d) Ice load
e) Yield stresses

11. Which of the following theory is the most accurate method to design arch?
a) The thin cylinder theory
b) The theory of elastic arches
c) The trial load method
d) Creep theory

12. Into how many components the diversion headwork is divided?

a) 8
b) 5
c) 4
d) 7

13. What does the diagram represent?

a) Divide Wall
b) Plan of Fish Ladder
c) Scouring Sluices
d) Canal Head Regulator

14. What device is placed in front of head regulator for silt removal?
a) Weir
b) Silt Extractor
c) Silt Excluder
d) Barrage

15. What is the difference between a weir and a barrage?

a) Discharge Capacity
b) No Solid Obstruction
c) Storage Capacity
d) Velocity of Flow

16. Which one among the following is a correct choice in relation to a weir?

(a) It is helpful in diverting excess water to a river from a canal

(b) It does not cause any heading up of water on its upstream side

(c) It stores water by raised counter-balanced gates

(d) It increases the chances of floods in the upstream areas

17. What type of weir does the diagram represent?

a) Parabolic Weir
b) Gravity Weir
c) Dry Stone Slope Weir
d) Vertical Drop Weir

18. Barrages constructed across alluvial rivers help in:

(a) Controlling floods
(b) Restoring river regime
(c) Ensuring monsoon storage

(d) all of them.

19. Silt excluders are constructed:

(a) On the river bed downstream of the head regulator·
(b) On the river bed upstream of the head regulator
(c) On the canal bed ·downstream of the canal head regulator·
(d) None of these.

20. Head sluices are the gate controlled openings, in.

(a) The entire length of the barrage
(b) The under-sluice length of the barrage
(c) The regulator of the main off taking canal
(d) None of them.

22. The gated regulator, which is constructed in the parent canal near the site of an off taking
Canal, is called a:

(a) Canal head regulator

(b) Distributary head regulator
(c) Cross regulator

(d) None of the above.

23. A cross regulator helps in

(a) Increasing supply in the parent channel downstream
(b) Increasing supply in the off taking channel
(c) Increasing water depth on the parent canal, upstream
(d) Both (b) and (c)
24. The crest level of a distributary head regulator is usually kept:

(a) The same as the upstream bed level of the parent canal
(b) The same as the crest level of the cross-regulator.
(c) 0.3 to 1 m higher than the upstream bed level of the parent canal
(d) None of the above.

25. A fish ladder is provided in a canal project:

(a) to catch the fish for commercial development

(b) to enable the fish to move freely in the river
(c) to. serve the same purpose as a canal ladder.
{d) (b) and (c) both,

ONLINE TEST 4

CROP WATER REQUIREMENT

need and classification of irrigation- historical development and merits and demerits of
irrigation-types of crops-crop season-duty, delta and base period- consumptive use of crops-
estimation of evapotranspiration using experimental and theoretical methods

1. The field water efficiency is determined by:

a) Water transpired by crop – water applied to a field
b) (Water absorbed by crop ÷ water applied to a field) x 100%
c) Water absorbed by crop – water applied to a field
d) (Water transpired by crop ÷ water applied to a field) x 100%

2. Micro-irrigation is also called:

a) Nano-irrigation
b) Petite irrigation
c) Localized irrigation
d) Flood irrigation

3.  What is the other name for Flood Irrigation?

a) Flow Irrigation
b) Lift Irrigation
c) Surface Irrigation
d) Uncontrolled irrigation

4. In which of the following types of irrigation water is supplied to the crops throughout
their crop period?
a) Perennial Irrigation
b) Flood Irrigation
c) Direct Irrigation
d) Storage Irrigation

5.  Irrigation from wells is what type of irrigation system?

a) Lift Irrigation
b) Tank Irrigation
c) Direct Irrigation
d) Flow Irrigation

6. What type of irrigation system is based merely on gravitation?

a) Flow Irrigation
b) Direct Irrigation
c) Lift Irrigation
d) Storage Irrigation

7. What type of irrigation does this diagram represent?

a) Direct Irrigation
b) Storage Irrigation
c) Lift Irrigation
d) Flow Irrigation

8. On what factors Potential Evapotranspiration critically depends?

a) Climatological Factors
b) Types of Crop
c) Types of Soils
d) Vegetation

9. Which type of method is adopted for research studies on crops?

a) Phytometer Method
b) Lysimeter Method
c) Furrow Irrigation Method
d) Drip Irrigation Method

10. What is the time interval between sowing and harvesting of crops?
a) Base period
b) Kor period
c) Crop period
d) Season period
11. The first watering before sowing the crop is ________
a) Paleo
b) Kor
c) Delta
d) Flooding

12. What is called as the percentage of C.C.A irrigated at a time in one crop season?
a) Gross Command Area
b) Culturable cultivated area
c) Culturable uncultivated area
d) Intensity of irrigation

13. What is total depth of water, for complete growth of crop called?
a) Triangle
b) Delta
c) Duty of Water
d) Rotation Period

14. Which type of period is slightly more than its counterpart period?
a) Crop Period
b) Period
c) Base Period
d) Rotation Period

15. Which type of units is used to define high and low duty?
a) Hectare-meters
b) Hectares/cumec
c) Meters
d) Centimeters

16.  Given that, a particular irrigation field has C.C.A as 200 hectares, out which 150
hectares of land is cultivated for rabi season and 100 hectares of land is cultivated for
kharif season. What is the intensity of irrigation for each season?
a) 50%, 100%
b) 120%, 60%
c) 75%, 50%
d) 150%, 75%

16.  It is said that a particular type of crop requires a depth of 6 cm of water every 24
days and the crop period is 168 days. Find the delta of the crop?
a) 50 cm
b) 42 cm
c) 20 cm
d) 95 cm

18. Optimum depth of kor watering for rice is

a. 190 mm
b. 215 mm
c. 135 mm
d. 165 mm
19. The ratio of the quantity of water stored in the root zone of the crops to the
quantity of water actually delivered in the field is known as

a. water application efficiency

b. water use efficiency
c. water conveyance efficiency
d.none of the above

20 Kor period is less for humid climates and more for dry climates.
a) True
b) False

21. Consumptive use of water for a crop represents:

(a) The transpiration needs of the crop
(b) Evaporation needs of the cropped area.
(c) Evapotranspiration needs of the cropped area plus the minor quantity
required in plant metabolism
(d) None of the above.

22. What is the crop ratio of Kharif to rabi crops?

a) 1:2
b) 1:4
c) 1:3
d) 2:1

23. Which Indian state is Worlds first organic state?

a) Punjab
b) Assam
c) Arunachal Pradesh
d) Sikkim

24. What are the climatic conditions required for growing rice?
a) Fertile clay soil, 70-200 cm rainfall, temperature 20˚C-27˚C
b) Fertile soil, 50-75 cm rainfall, temperature 20˚C-25˚C
c) Nitrogen-rich soil, 50-80 cm rainfall, temperature 25˚C-30˚C
d) Sulfur-rich soil, 150-200 cm rainfall, temperature 15˚C-20˚C

25. The optimum utilisation of irrigation water means _________

a) Getting maximum yield with the maximum amount of water available
b) Getting maximum yield with any amount of water
c) Getting less yield with maximum water content
d) Getting less yield with the least water content

Tank irrigation - well irrigation - irrigation methods: surface and sub-surface and micro
irrigation - design of drip and sprinkler irrigation - ridge and furrow irrigation-irrigation
scheduling - water distribution system- irrigation efficiencies