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y) 2) 3) 4) 5) 6) ” 8) What is the chemical symbol for ICE as per UNESCO terminology a) HiOs ©) HeOs b) 0 4) HO What is hydrological cycle a) Process involved in the transfer of moisture from sea to land b) Process involved in the transfer of moisture from sea back to sea again ©) Process involved in the transfer of water from snowmelt in mountains to sea d) Process involved in the transfer of moisture from sea to land and back to sea again Humidity is measured by a) Hygrometer ©) Hydrometer b) Hyetometer d) Pyrheliometer A precipitation in the form of water droplets of size less than 0.5 mm and intensity less than 1 mm/h is known as a) Rain ©) Small rain b) sleet d) drizzle When the density of snowfall is not known it is usual to assume that water equivalent to snowfall as a) 10% b) 30% ©) 50% d) 90% ‘The average annual rainfall over the whole of India is estimated as a) 86 cm b) 119 em ©) 203 em d) 160 cm ‘The monthly rainfall at a place M during August, 1985 was noted as 65 mm below normal. Here the term normal means a) Rainfall in the same month August in the previous year b) The average monthly rainfall of august computed from a specific 30 years of past record ©) The average monthly rainfall computed from the previous 12 months of records d) The rainfall that is normally expected, based ‘on the data from the beginning of that water year A metrological division in India is said to experience severe drought, if the seasonal rainfall deficiency from the normal rainfall is 9) The normal annual rainfall at station A, B and C are 170.6, 180.3 and 165.3 cm respectively. In 1985, station 8 was inoperative and station A ‘and C recorded annual precipitation of 153.0 and 4145.1 cm respectively. The annual rainfall at in that year could be estimated as a) 160 cm b) 180 em ©) 108.7 cm 4) 149.1 cm 10) According to India, metrological department, a year is considered a drought year in case the total area affected by metrological drought in the ‘country is more than a) 20 % of the total area of the country b) 50 % of the total area of the country c)_ 75% of the total area of the country d) 10 % of the total area of the country 11)An area Is classified as a drought prone area, if the probability P of occurrence of a drought is a) 04 25 % value is 10 %. ©) > 75% d) > 90 % a) 2 bya ) 6 as AIHYDROLOGY LeveL o RINCHTAR CLASSES M: +917877554488 16) Which of the following statements are incorrect 1. Records of tipping bucket raingauge give intensity of rainfall 2. Records of weighing bucket type raingauge give mass curve 3. Records of natural siphon type give mass a) tonly b) 2 only ©) 3only d) none of the above 17) Which of the following were not matched correctly ‘) Double mass curve ~ consistency method b) Moving average method - trend ©) DAD curve - average depth of rainfall d) Non recording gauge - symon's gauge 18) In the hydrological cycle, the average residence time of water in the global a) Atmospheric moisture is larger than that in the global rivers b) Oceans is smaller than that of the global groundwater ©) Rivers is larger than that of the global groundwater d) Oceans is larger than that of the global groundwater 19)The monthly rainfall at a place A during September 1982 was recorded as 55 mm above normal here, the term normal means a) The rainfall in the same month in the previous year b) The rainfall normally expected based on previous year ©). The average rainfall computed from past 12 months record d) The average monthly rainfall for September computed from a specific 30 years of past record 20) The % standard error of precipitation average is, often expressed functionally or graphically in terms of (i) precipitating gauge network density expressed as area per gauge and (ii) total area of the catchment. The % standard error a) Increases with area per gauge as well as total area b) Decreases with area per gauge as well as total area ©) Increases with area per gauge but decreases with total area d) Decreases with area per gauge but increases with total area 2IHYOROLOGY_LEV 21)Match list 1 (hydrology terms) with list 2 (relationship/nature of curve) List 1 List 2 P. theissen | 1. average depth of polygon rainfall over an area Q. mass curve | 2. relationship of rainfall intensity and time BR hyetograph 3. relationship of accumulated rainfall & time S.DAD curve | 4. relationship of river runoff & time 5. always a falling curve 22) The rainfall hyetograph data is given below Duration | 30 60 30 (min) Rainfall | 2 4 6 intensity mm/hr Total amount of rainfall represented by hyetograph Is a) 12mm by 8mm <) 5mm 4) 6mm 23) How is the average velocity along the vertical in a wide stream obtained ? 8) By averaging the velocities at 0.2 and 0.8 depth from surface b) By measuring the velocities at 0.6 depth below the surface )_ By measuring velocities at half the depth d) By measuring velocities at 0.1 times the depth from surface 24) Mean precipitation over an area is best obtained 25)The moving average of annual precipi from gauged amounts by a) Arithmetic mean method b) Theisen method c)_Linearly interpolation isohyetal method 4) Orographically weighed isoheytal method tion. record Is carried out to determine a) Trend b) Annual mean ) Extreme annual variation d) Extreme seasonal variation o RINCHTAR CLASSES M: +9178775S44e8 26) Which one of the following defines the aridity index a) a=" x 100 b) a=" x100 ©) = x10 d) Al x 100 27) For which of the following purposes is the double mass curve is used? a) Checking the consistency of precipitation data b) Prediction of annual Precipitation ©) Defining which period of storm should be analysed to obtain the maximum useful Information from storm rainfall d) For estimating the capacity of a reservoir 28)Which one of the following is a method of extending the length of record for a frequency curve at a station? a) Double mass curve method b) The station year method ©) Thiessen method d) Ischyetal method 29) Consider the following with respect to ‘double ~ mass ~ curve’: 1. Plot of accumulated rainfall with respect to two chronological orders 2. Plot for estimating multiple missing rainfall data 3. Plot for checking the consistency of the rainfall data 4. Plot for accumulated annual rainfall of a station v/s accumulated rainfall of a group of. stations Which of these statements are correct? a) 183 by283 o) 384 d)184 30) Consider the following statements 1. Over the oceans there is more evaporation than precipitation 2. On land it is more precipitation than evapo- transpiration. Which of these statements are correct a) Both i and 2 b) neither 1 nor 2 ©) tonly 4) 2 only 31) A hyetograph is a graph representing a) Rainfall volume with time b) Rainfall intensity with time ©) Rainfall volume with duration 4d) Rainfall intensity over an area a|HYDROLOGY_LE\ 32)In the case of large rivers, a number of ‘equidistance vertical sections of the total width of flow are identified, for the purpose of finding by numerical integration, the total discharge on any day. On each section, the mean velocity is taken as the arithmetic average of two typical depths on that section, Then the mean velocity is worked out for that section. Usually, the mean velocity of any section, corresponding to which oO RINCHTAR CLASSES Mi +9 one of the following a) Sua eat tu by Hose You ) fase Pose 33) Which of the following are the pertinent to the realization of hydrological cycle? 1. Latitude difference in solar heating of the earth surface 2. Inclination of the earth's axis 3. Uneven distribution of land & water 4. Coriolis effect a) 1,2.&3 only b) 1, 2&4 only ©) 2,384 only 4) 1, 2,3 & 4 only 34) ind the missing rainfall data [ mm] Raingauge | Normal (mm) | Actual (mm) A 645 945 B ais 762 c 981 915 x 830 2 35)The intensity of rainfall and time interval of the typical storm are: Time intervals | Intensity of rainfall (minutes) (mm/min) 0-10 07 10-20 at 20-30 2.2 30-40 15 40-50 1.2 50-60 28 60-70 1.9 70-80 0.4 The maximum minutes duration of the storm mm/min. 36) The following rainfall data refers to station A and B which are equidistance from station X. Find P. intensity of rainfall for 20 L mm) Station | Station | Station A x B Tong term normal annual |240 | 250 | 260 rainfall (in mm) Annual rainfall in mm for year |230 | P 190 1940 7877554488

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