M5 & M6

Question 1

Water resources engineering

Answer 1

Water resources engineering

Question 2

In our planet is available in the atmosphere, the oceans, on land and within the soil and fractured rock of the earth’s crust.

Answer 2

Water

Question 3

Moisture circulates from the earth into the atmosphere through evaporation and then back into the earth as precipitation. Water is conserved - that is, it is neither created nor destroyed.

Answer 3

Hydrologic Cycle

Question 4

Occurs when atmospheric moisture becomes too great to remain suspended in clouds. It denotes all forms of water that reach the earth from the atmosphere, the usual forms being rainfall, snowfall, hail, frost and dew

Answer 4

Precipitation

Question 5

Is the greatest source (about 90%) of precipitation.

Answer 5

Ocean evaporation

Question 6

Is the predominant form of precipitation and its distribution over the world and within a country

Answer 6

Rainfall

Question 7

Is the water that flows across the land surface after a storm event.

Answer 7

Runoff

Question 8

As rain falls over land, part of that gets infiltrated the surface as overland flow. As the flow bears down, it notches out _ and _ which combine to form channels. These combine further to form streams and rivers.

Answer 8

rills and gullies

Question 9

The geographical area which contributes to the flow of a _ is called a?

Answer 9

river or a watershed

Question 10

Artificial or natural inland body of water used to store water to meet various demands.

Answer 10

Reservoirs