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University of Gondar
Institute of technology
Department of Hydraulic and water resource engineering
Engineering Hydrology Work sheet.
Prepared by Daniel G. (MSC engineering hydrology)
1) Orographic precipitation occurs due to air mass being lifted to higher altitude by:
A) The density difference of air masses
B) A frontal action
C) The presence of mountains barrier
D) Extratropical anti cyclones
2) The normal annual rain falls at station A, B, and C situated in meteorologically
homogenous region are 175, 180 and 150 cm respectively. In the year 2000, station B
was inoperative and station A and C record annual precipitation of 150 cm and 135 cm
respectively. The annual rainfall at station B in that year could be estimated as
A)150 cm B)143 cm C) 158 cm D)1 68 cm
3) the double mass curve techniques in data processing are adopted to
a) check the consistence of rain gauge records
b) to find the average rain fall over a number of years
c) to find the optimum number of rain ague required
d) to estimate the missing rainfall
4) The mass curve of rainfall storm is a plot of

a) rainfall depth of various equal duration plotted in decreasing order
b) rain fall intensity versus time in chronological order
c) accumulated rainfall intensity versus time
d) accumulated precipitation vs time in chronological order
5) A hyetograph is
a) cumulative rainfall vs time
b) rainfall intensity vs time
c) rainfall depth vs duration
d) river discharge vs time
6) An Isohyet is a line joining points having
A) equal evaporation value
B) equal barometric value
C) equal height above mean see level
D) equal rainfall depth in a given duration
7) a catchment area has 7 rain gauge stations. In a year the annual rainfall recorded by the
gauges is given as follows.
Station A B C D E F G
Rainfall 130 142.1 118.2 108.5 165.2 102.1 149.6
(cm)
For 5% error in estimating of annual rainfall, calculate the minimum number of

additional rain gauge required.
A) 5 B) 3 C) 4 D) 2
8) How many additional gauges are required in a catchment if the error allowed in
estimation of mean rain fall is reduced by half than the present?
A) Equal to its present number
B) Twice of its present number
C) Three times that of its present number
D) Four times that of its present number
9) Which of the following is not essential requirement for precipitation to occur?
A) presence of moisture in the atmosphere
B) existence of nuclei around which condensation vapor takes place
C) Dynamic heating responsible for heating of water vapor in atmosphere
D) Precipitation product must reach the ground in some form
E) None
10) The mean areal precipitation using Thiessen polygon method for the catchment
represented by the following figure is
A) 10.64 B) 13.2 C) 9.8 D) 12.4
11) The isohyets due to a storm in a catchment was drawn as figure below and
the area of the catchment bounded by isohyets were tabulated as below
Estimate the mean precipitation due to the storm.

A) 8.85 B) 9.85 C) 10.4 D) 11.8
12) Which of the following factors the curve number depends on?
A) Antecedent moisture content B) Land use type C) precipitation D) Soil type
13) There was 5 inches of rainfall on a 1000-acre watershed. The hydrologic soil group is
50 percent Group B and 50 percent Group C interspersed throughout the watershed.
Antecedent moisture condition II is assumed.
The land use is:
40 percent residential area that is 30 percent impervious
12 percent residential area that is 65 percent impervious
18 percent paved roads with curbs and storm sewers
16 percent open land with 50 percent fair grass cover and 50 percent good grass cover
14 percent parking lots, plazas, schools, and so on (all impervious). The approximate
amount of runoff is
A 95 mm B 65 mm C 115 mm D70mm
14) Which of the following is not the component of direct runoff hydrograph?
A) the rising limb
B) the crest segments
C) depletion curve
D) base flow
E) inflection point
15) Which of the following terminology is unique?
A) Effective rainfall
B) Net rainfall
C) Excessive rainfall
D) Rainfall
16) Which method of baseflow separation is realistic in situations where the groundwater
contributions are significant and reach the stream quickly?
A) Straight-line method
B) Curve method
C) Line segment method
17) Which of the following is not he key points assumptions in unit hydrograph?
A) spread uniformly over space - evenly over the watershed
B) the excess RF rate is constant over the time interval
C) Ordinates of unit hydrograph are proportional to total runoff (linearity)
D) Unit hydrograph represent distributed parameter and its time is not stationarity
18) The following are the ordinates of a storm hydrograph of a river draining catchment
area of 423 km2 due to a 6-hr isolated storm. Assuming that the base flow is 10 m3/s
and increased by 0.5 m3/se after 12 hr. Derive the ordinates of a 6-hr unit hydrograph
for the catchment.
19) If peak discharges in 4 and 8 hr unit hydrographs of a basin occurs at t1 and t2, then
A) t1= t2 B) t1>t2 C) t1<t2 D) difficult to guess
20) The statement “ordinates of the direct run off hydrograph of a common base period
are directly proportional to the volume of runoff represented by the respective
hydrograph” is
A) principle of linearity B) principle of time invariance C) principle of uniformity D)
none of the above
21) find the peak one-hour unit hydrograph ordinates using the excess rain fall hyetograph
and direct runoff hydrograph given in the table
Time (h) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
Excess 1.06 1.93 1.81
rainfall (in)
Direct 428 1923 5297 9131 10626 7834 3921 1846 1402 830 313
runoff (cfs)
A) 1,460 B) 2,506 C) 2,343 D) 1,097

22) In Gumbels distribution, relation between the reduced variate y and return period Tr
is given by
−𝑦 1
A) 𝑒 −𝑒 =1−
𝑇𝑟
−𝑦 1
B) 𝑒 −𝑒 =
𝑇𝑟
−𝑦 1
C) 𝑒 −𝑒 =1+
𝑇𝑟
1
D) 𝑒 −𝑒^−𝑦 = −1
𝑇𝑟
23) If a risk of a flood occurring in the next 10 years is accepted to 10%, the the return
period for the design should be
1 1
A) 1 + (0.9)0.1 B) 1 − (0.9)0.1 C) D)
1−(0.9)0.1 1+(0.9)0.1
24) Total rainfall in a catchment area of 1200 km2 during 6-hour storm is 16 cm while
surface runoff due to the storm is 1.2*108 m3.  the index is
A) 0.1cm/h B) 1.0 cm/h C) 0.2cm/h D) cannot be estimated
25) If peak of flood hydrograph due to 3-hour duration isolated storm in a catchment area
is 270m3/s. total depth of rainfall 6.0cm. assuming an average infiltration loss of
0.3cm/h and constant base flow of 20 m3/s, which of the following will be the peak of
3h unit hydrograph of given catchment?
A) 60 m3/s B) 75m3/s C) 50m3/s D) 30 m3/s
26) If a 4-h unit hydrograph of a catchment has a peak ordinates of 60m3/s, the the peak
ordinates of an 8-hr unit hydrograph for the same catchment will be
A) 60 m3/s B) > 60m3/s C)> 60m3/s D) not applicable
27) When a 2-h unit hydrograph is available, other unit hydrograph of the folllowing
duration may be eaasily prepared except
A) 4-hours B) 5-hours C) 1 -hours D) 8-hours
28) In order to prepare 2 hour uint hydrograph from a 6 hour unit hydrograph which of
the following method will be used?
A) Synthetic unit hydrograph C) S- curve
B) Instantaneous unit hydrograph D) Simple unit hydrograph
29) S- hydrograh is used to obtain unit hydrograph of
A) Shorter duration C) Aand B
B) Longer duration D) none of these
30) Prism storage in a river reach during the pasage of flood wave is a function of
A) Inflow B) outflow C) constants D) both A and B
31) Wedge storage in a river reach during the passage of flood wave in the rising phase is
A ) positive B) Negative C) Constant D) not necessary
32) Muskigum method flood routing is a

B) Hydraulic channel routing method
C) Hydrologic chaneel routing method
D) Hydrologic reservoir routing method
E) None of these
33) For the folllowing given Inflow hydrograph, the maximum outflow ordinate is
K = 2.3 hr, X = 0.15, ∆t = 1-hour, Initial Q = 90
A) 640 B) 670 C) 624 D) 570
Period 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
(h)
Inflow( 9 137 20 32 442 54 63 67 691 67 63 57 47 39 32 24 18 134 108 90
cfs) 3 8 0 6 0 8 5 4 1 7 0 9 7 4
34) Capacity of a storage reservoir can be decided by using

A) Mass curve of inflow B ) mass curve of out flow C) both A and B D) none
35) Useful storage in a dam reservoir is volume of water stored between
A) Minimum and maximum reservoirs level
B) Minimum and normal reservoirs level
C) normal and maximum reservoirs level
D) none
36) With the increase in its capacity-inflow ratio, trap efficiency of a reservoir
A) increase B) remains unchanged C) decrease D) may increase or decrease
37) Percentage of total sediment flow depositing in the reservoir, is called its
A) capacity- inflow ratio C) trap efficiency
B) sediment coefficient D) displacement efficiency
38) In the channel routing by Muskingum method, value of the routing coeffects Co and
C1 are estimated as -0.2 and 0.5 respectively. The value of third coefficients C2
would be
A) 0.7 B) 0.5 C) 0.4 D) 0.3
39) Flow duration curve is a plot between
A) Flow vs percentage time flow is exceeded
B) Duration of flooding and elevation
C) Flow rate vs duration of time taken to empty reservoir
D) None
40) When recurrence interval or frequency is 5 years and the total number of years for
which records are available are 40 years, the ranking of the required storm will be ___
41) Normal annual precipitation at station X, A, B and C are 700, 1000, 900 and 800 mm
respectively. If the storm precipitation at three station A, B and C were 100, 90 and 80
mm respectively the storm precipitation at station X will be ___________
42)

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University of Gondar

Department of Hydraulic and water resource engineering

Engineering Hydrology Work sheet.

Prepared by Daniel G. (MSC engineering hydrology)

A)150 cm B)143 cm C) 158 cm D)1 68 cm

3) the double mass curve techniques in data processing are adopted to

a) check the consistence of rain gauge records

b) to find the average rain fall over a number of years

c) to find the optimum number of rain ague required

d) to estimate the missing rainfall

4) The mass curve of rainfall storm is a plot of

For 5% error in estimating of annual rainfall, calculate the minimum number of

the area of the catchment bounded by isohyets were tabulated as below

Estimate the mean precipitation due to the storm.

A) 1,460 B) 2,506 C) 2,343 D) 1,097

A) 60 m3/s B) 75m3/s C) 50m3/s D) 30 m3/s

A ) positive B) Negative C) Constant D) not necessary

32) Muskigum method flood routing is a

34) Capacity of a storage reservoir can be decided by using

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