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APPLIED GEOLOGY (Paper – VII),2014 Question Paper,M.Sc. I (Semester – II), Solapur University Question Paper

Solapur University Question Paper
M.Sc. I (Semester – II) Examination, 2014
APPLIED GEOLOGY (Paper – VII)
Hydrogeology
Day and Date : Saturday, 26-4-201412 Max. Marks : 70
Time : 11.00 a.m. to 2.00 p.m.
N.B. : 1) Answer any five questions.
2) All questions carry equal marks.
3) Question No. 1 is compulsory.
4) Answer any two questions from each Section.
5) Draw neat and labelled diagrams wherever necessary.
I. Choose mark the correct answer. 14
1) Evaporation evapotranspiration, precipitation and runoff are three important
phases of the
a) Water cycle b) Water transfer cycle
c) Hylogic cycle d) b and c both
2) Frozen rain drops while falling through air at subfreezing temperature is known
as
a) Glaze b) Sleet c) Snow d) Hail
3) The air close to the warm earth gets heated and rises due to its low density,
cools adiabatically to form a cauliflower shaped cloud, which finally bursts in
to a thunder storm is a _________ type of precipitation.
a) Convectional precipitation b) Frontal precipitation
c) Orographic precipitation d) Cyclonic precipitation
4) The rate of evaporation is a function of the differences in vapour pressure at
the water surface and in the atmosphere, staling that the evaporation is
proportional to the difference in vapour pressures ew and ea is known as
a) Vapour pressure law b) Laplace’s law
c) Peter’s law d) Dalton’s law of evaporation
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5) The __________ is defined as that rate of rainfall above which the rainfall
volume equals the runoff volume.
a) W-index b) fave-index c) φ=index d) Y-index
6) The portion of runoff in a rising flood in a stream, which is absorbed by the
permeable boundaries of the stream above the normal phreatic surface is
called ________ storage.
a) depression b) detention c) bank d) phreatic
7) If the ground water table is below the bed of the stream, the seepage from the
stream feeds the ground water resulting in the build up of water mound, such
streams are called ________ streams.
a) influent b) effluent c) intermittent d) perennial
8) A formation that contains sufficient saturated permeable material to yield
significant quantities of water to wells and springs is known as
a) Aquiclude b) Aquifuse c) Aquitard d) Aquifer
9) An imaginary surface coinciding with the hydrostatic pressure level of the
water in the confined aquifer is known as
a) Piezometric surface b) Potentiometric surface
c) Aquisurface d) a and b both
10) _______ is defined as the volume of water that an aquifer releases from or
takes into storage per unit surface area of aquifer per unit change in the
component of head normal to that surface.
a) Storage coefficient b) Transmissivity
c) Specific yield d) Maximum yield
11) The flow rate through porous media is proportional to the headloss and
inversely proportional to the length of the flow path, is known as
a) Bernoullies law b) Possion’s law
c) Vector’s law d) Darcy’s law
12) Flow lines lie _________ to water table contours.
a) Perpendicular b) Orthogonal
c) Oblique d) Parallel
13) Naturally occurring radio isotopes (H3 and C14) are used to know
a) Residence times of water
b) Evaluating regional groundwater flow
c) Age of groundwater
d) All the above
14) The substances which are susceptible to the quantitative determination in
minute concentration, absent from natural water, do not react chemically
with the natural water, do not get absorbed by the porous media, safe in
terms of human health, inexpensive and readily available are ideal
a) Water sources b) Chemically active groundwater
c) Groundwater tracers d) None of the above
SECTION – A
II. Describe groundwater flow net and write in short how do you understand
groundwater setup of a region using groundwater flow net. 14
III. What are groundwater tracers ? Describe its usefulness in groundwater studies. 14
IV. Enumerate different graphic representations of chemical quality of
groundwater. 14
SECTION – B
V. Write notes on : 14
a) Groundwater basin investigations
b) Types of aquifers.
VI. Describe in brief : 14
a) Darcy’s law
b) Fresh-saline water relationship.
VII.Discuss in short : 14
a) Groundwater pollution
b) Infiltration.
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