PART II Flashcards
1
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- Area which contributes runoff or drains water into the reservoir.
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Watershed
2
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- This is a reinforced concrete slab or a thick wooden plank that span the sidewalls built around the floating cages.
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Catwalk
3
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- The science that encompasses the occurrence, distribution, movement, and properties of the waters of the earth and their relationship with the environment.
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Hydrology
4
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- A branch of meteorology and hydrology that studies the transfer of water and energy between the land surface and the lower atmosphere.
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Hydrometeorology
5
Q
- Method of areal rainfall determination done by computing the weighted average.
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Arithmetic method
6
Q
- Part of rainfall which runs off the soil as surface or subsurface flow.
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Runoff
7
Q
- The part of rainfall that is stored in the root zone and can be used by the plants.
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Effective rainfall
8
Q
- It involves two processes in converting ammonium and ammonia into useful nitrates.
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Nitrification
9
Q
- The inverse of the probability of exceedance of a certain hydrologic event.
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Return period
10
Q
- Airmass lifting process which is mountain-facilitated.
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Orographic
11
Q
- The precipitation depth that corresponds to a liquid quantity of 1 liter falling into a 1 square meter of ground area.
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1 mm
12
Q
- Probability of occurrence any year of hydrologic event recurring once in 4 years.
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25%
13
Q
- What is the probability of occurrence in any year of a hydrologic event recurring every year?
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100%
14
Q
- It is characterized by a single high tide every’ 24 hours and 50 minutes.
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Diurnal tide
15
Q
- Rainfall depths recorded were as follows: 8mm and 2mm for 8:00/A.M. and 2:00 P.M., respectively on 7-7-2022 and 5 mm and 9 mm for 8:00 A.M. and 2:00 P.M., respectively on 7-8-2022. What is the total rainfall depth on 7- 7-2022?
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10 mm
16
Q
- The agrometeorological station uses electronic rain gage. The rainfall depths were recorded on June 1, 2022 as follows: 2 mm from 6:QO to 8:00 A.M., 7 mm from 8:00 to 10:00 A.M., 9 mm from 12:00 noon to 2:00 P.M. and zero rainfall for all other times of the day and the previous day. What is the rainfall intensity recorded on June I, 2022?
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3 mm/hr
17
Q
- Estimate the time of concentration of a certain watershed having a time lag of 1 hour.
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1.43 hrs
18
Q
- The maximum permissible water velocity for clay loam canal surface based on PAES 603:2016.
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0.8 m/s
19
Q
- It is a complex mixture of algae. cyanobacteria, heterotrophic microbes. and detritus that are attached submerged surfaces in most aquatic ecosystems.
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Periphyton
20
Q
- The minimum permissible velocity for water with sediments in lined canals based on PAES 603:2016.
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0.9 m/s
21
Q
- Application of water in the soil to supply moisture needed for plant growth.
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Irrigation
22
Q
- Loss of water from a channel during transport due to seepage and percolation.
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Conveyance loss
23
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- Depth of water flow where the energy content is at minimum hence, no other backwater forces are involved.
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Critical depth
24
Q
- A microscopic aquatic animal of the phylum Rotifera.
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Rotifer
25
Q
- Ratio of the actual crop evapotranspiration to its potential evapotranspiration.
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Crop coefficient
26
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- Moisture content of the soil when gravitational water has been removed.
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Field capacity
27
Q
- Elevated section of open channel used for crossing natural depressions.
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Flume
28
Q
- Top producer of milkfish from brakishwater fishpond according to the Philippine Fisheries Profile 2020.
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Region VI
29
Q
- Surveying instrument used for determining land areas in a topographic map.
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Planimeter
30
Q
- An aquatic organism that is able to tolerate a wide range of salinity.
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Euryhaline
31
Q
- Elevation of water surface in a stream with reference to a certain datum.
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Stage
32
Q
- Facility for determining water consumptive use of crops in an open field.
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Lysimeter
33
Q
- Time required to cover an area with one application of water.
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Irrigation period
34
Q
- At optimal emitter spacing, drip emitter spacing is of the wetted diameter estimated from field tests.
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80%
35
Q
- Reference crop evapotranspiration is the rate of evapotranspiration from a reference surface which is a hypothetical reference crop with an assumed crop height of 0.2 m and an albedo of _______.
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0.23
36
Q
- It is composed of fish or aquatic animal manure, uneaten feeds and other waste material that could be a source of toxic substances.
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Sludge
37
Q
- Which one is the flattest canal side slope?
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4:1
38
Q
- Determine the side slope angle e with the horizontal plane of an unlined canal with side slope ratio (run: rise) z of
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26.6°
39
Q
- A separation process in which a certain quantity of a mixture is divided during a phase transition into a number of smaller quantities in which the composition varies according to a gradient.
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Fractionation
40
Q
- If the most efficient concrete canal has its side angle e with the horizontal plane equal to 600, what is the z value of the canal sides or the side’s horizontal run in meters per meter rise? This value is commonly used in designing
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