Republic of the Philippines

University of Southeastern Philippines

College of Agriculture and Related Sciences
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING
Tagum-Mabini Campus

PRE-BOARD EXAMINATION (PART II)

SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION, IRRIGATION AND DRAINAGE, MATHEMATICS, STATISTICS,

AQUACULTURE, AGRONOMY, AND ANIMAL SCIENCE

1. It is a channel having a steep slope.

a. canal b. flume c. chute d. weir

2. It is the removal of the testis from the scrotum or any method that would render the testis functionless

a. Castration b. Conception c. Heterosis d. parturition

3. A fully penetrating well installed in a confined aquifer with a transmissivity of 197 m2/day is pumped at
a constant rate. If the drawdowns in two observation wells, 8m and 22 m from the pumped well were
observed to be 1.42 m and 0.44 m, respectively, the steady state ppm discharge is:

a. 202 gpm b. 220 gpm c. 156 gpm d. 165 gpm

4. Find the 22nd term of the arithmetic progression 8, 12, 16, …

a. 88 b. 92 c. 96 d. 100

5. Which of the following statements is correct considering the economics of irrigating crops?

a. natural rainfall could be enough for coconut and mango

b. pump irrigation is applicable for low value crops in a greenhouse
c. upland rice is irrigated using overhead sprinkler system
d. high-value vegetables can be irrigated by flooding method
e. drip irrigation system is highly recommended for all crops

6. A graph showing level, velocity, or discharge of water in a channel or conduit plotted against the time.

a. Hydrograph b. stream gauge c. staff gage d. stream flow

7. An undisturbed sample of a medium sand weighs 484.68 g. The core of the undisturbed sample is 6
cm in diameter and 10.61 cm high. The sample is oven-dried for 24 hr at 110oC to remove the water
content. At the end of the 24 hr, the core sample weighs 447.32 g. Determine the bulk density.
(Assume ρm=2.65 g/cm3)

a. 1.526 g/cm3 b. 1.491 g/cm3 c. 1.884 g/cm3 d. 1.625 g/cm3

8. What is the void ratio?

a. 0.777 b. 0.773 c. 0.775 d. 0.779

9. Determine its volumetric water content.

a. 0.125 b. 0.152 c. 0.251 d. 1.025

10. Determine its porosity.

a. 47.33% b. 43.73% c. 52.26% d. 52.62%

11. How much is the saturation percentage of the sample?

a. 71.53% b. 75.13% c. 28.47% d. 24.87%

12. The number of permutations of letters in the word STATISTICS is:

 a. 50,000 b. 50,075 c. 50,300 d. 50,400

13. A measure of central tendency calculated by dividing the number of observations by the sum of the
reciprocals of every observation. This is used as an appropriate measure of average when the
variable is kept constant.

a. harmonic b. geometric c. arithmetic d. variance e. ANOVA

14. An agricultural engineer bought 24 boxes of screws for P2,200.00. There were three types of screws,
A, B and C. Screw A costs P300.00 per box, screw B costs P150.00 per box and screw C costs
P50.00 per box. How many boxes of each screw did he buy?

a. 3, 6, 17 b. 2, 5, 17 c. 3, 6, 18 d. 2, 4, 20

15. Drainage is agriculture is done to:

a. Remove excess water

b. Alter soil structure and texture
c. Prevent decay and nitrification
d. Increase leaching in salt in some areas where saline water is a problem
e. Facilitates early harvesting

16. Safe rule in the design of freeboard

a. 1/3 of the depth of water b. 1/2 of the depth of water

c. 1/4 of the depth of water d. 2/3 of the depth of water

17. An artesian well is pumped at the rate of 25 lps. At observation wells 170 m and 340 m away the
drawdowns noted are 0.83 m and 0.67 m respectively. The average thickness of the aquifer at the
observation wells is 6.5 m. Compute the coefficient of permeability of the aquifer if the water level was
15 m before pumping.

a. 2.56 mm/s b. 3.42 mm/s c. 2.65 mm/s d. 3.24 mm/s

18. Calculate the density of chlorine gas at 25oc and under a pressure of 600 kPa absolute. The gas
constant R for chlorine is 117 N-m/kg-K.

a. 16.2 kg/m3 b. 17.2 kg/m3 c. 18.2 kg/m3 d. 19.2 kg/m3

19. Calculate its specific weight.

a. 196 N/m3 b. 169 N/m3 c. 281 N/m3 d. 218 N/m3

20. Compute its specific volume.

a. 0.085 m3/kg b. 0.805 m3/kg c. 0.058 m3/kg d. 0.508 m3/kg

21. An agricultural soil contains 47% pore space, and the moisture content after gravity drainage is 39%
(by volume). Find the void ratio from a 20 m x 15 m plot having 1.0 m root zone depth.

a. 0.542 b. 0.679 c. 0.117 d. 0.886

22. Find its drainable porosity.

a. 16% b. 12% c. 10% d. 8%

23. Determine the water volume.

a. 22 m3 b. 23 m3 c. 24 m3 d. 25 m3

24. An experiment showed that a corn crop gave the optimum yield when two irrigations of 5 cm depth
each were applied. The crop received an effective rainfall of 9.5 cm during the crop period. The
average soil water content at sowing and at harvesting of the crop were 21.32 and 14.25 percent
respectively. The root zone of the crop was 75 cm and bulk density of the soil was 1.49 g/cm3.
Estimate the water requirement of the crop.

a. 24.7 cm b. 27.4 cm c. 38.2 cm d. 32.8 cm

25. Soil samples were drawn from a corn field two days after an irrigation when the earliest soil sampling
could be made and just before the next irrigation applied 25 days after. The soil water content was
estimated by the thermo-gravimetric method. The soil data are given in the following table.
Soil depth Soil water content Soil water content (%) Field capacity Bulk density
(cm) (%) 2 days after before the following g/cm3
irrigation irrigation
0-30 25.5 14.1 25.8 1.49
30-60 25.4 14.6 26.0 1.52

Calculate the daily consumptive use during the period between two soil sampling.

a. 4 mm b. 3mm c. 2mm d. 1mm

26. Determine the soil water deficit in the crop root zone of 60 cm.

a. 11.48 cm b. 11.84 cm c. 10.43 cm d. 10.34 cm

27. Which of the following is (are) TRUE about the correlation analysis?
I. Interpreting the degree of linear relation between two variables is meaningful only when
correlation is significant.
II. A value of the correlation coefficient equal to zero means there is no existing relationship
between two variables.

A. I only B. II only C. Both I and II D. Neither I nor II

28. In South Asia, the most popularly used recording rain gauge is the:

a. tipping bucket rain gauge b. natural siphon rain gauge

c. weighing bucket rain gauge d. telemetry rain gauge

29. A hyetograph is drawn as a plot of

a. runoff discharge vs. time b. rainfall volume vs. time

c. rainfall intensity vs. time d. cumulative rainfall volume vs. time

30. The mass rainfall curve is drawn as a plot of

a. rainfall intensity vs. time

b. accumulated rainfall intensity vs. time
c. accumulated rainfall depth vs. time in a chronological order
d. rainfall volume vs. time

31. Thiessen polygons are drawn by:

a. joining rain gauge stations

b. drawing perpendiculars of lines joining rain gauge stations
c. drawing lines of equal elevations
d. drawing lines of equal precipitation depth for a given duration

32. Isohyets are drawn by:

a. joining rain gauge stations

b. drawing perpendiculars of lines joining rain gauge stations
c. drawing lines of equal elevations
d. drawing lines of equal precipitation depth for a given duration

33. While calculating the optimum number of stations in a watershed, the allowable error for estimation of
rainfall is generally taken as:

a. 8% b. 10% c. 4% d. 25%

34. A trapezoidal canal is being designed to convey water from a lake to a 50-ha irrigated farm. The farm
irrigation system is designed to provide a design daily irrigation requirement of 8 mm per day and to
operate 24 hours per day. Given the following data. s:s=1.5:1, slope=1 in 4000, limiting velocity=2.5
m/s, n=0.013, what is the required depth of the canal?
(For most economical section in trapezoidal canal, R= , and consider freeboard as 15% of flow of
depth. For economic design: )
 a. 0.2341 m b. 0.3241 m c. 0.8504 m d. 0.5804 m

35. What is it’s the top width of the trapezoidal canal?

a. 3.53 m b. 2.53 m c. 1.53 m d. 0.53 m

36. The time of translation of the flow from the most remote point of a drainage basin to its outlet is equal
to that of:

a. overland flow b. rainfall duration c. lag time d. time of concentration

37. The runoff coefficient is more when the land is

a. very slopy b. flatter c. mildly slopy d. wet

38. A soil core was drawn with a core sampler having an inside dimension of 5 cm diameter and 15 cm
length from a field two days after irrigation when the soil water was near field capacity. The weight of
the core sampler with fresh soil sample was 1.95 kg and the weight of the same on oven drying was
1.84 kg. The empty core sampler weighed 1.40 kg. Calculate the bulk density of the soil:

a. 1.68 g/cm3 b. 1.51 g/cm3 c. 1.27 g/cm3 d. 1.94 g/cm3

39. Determine the water holding capacity of the soil.

a. 37.75% b. 35.57% c. 37.57% d. 35.75%

40. Determine the water holding capacity of the soil per meter depth of the soil.

a. 37.75 cm b. 35.57 cm c. 37.57 cm d. 35.75%

41. Streams which always carry water are called

a. perennial streams b. intermittent streams

c. ephemeral streams d. flow hydrographs

42. Soil erosion by raindrops is called

a. rill erosion b. inter-rill erosion c. splash erosion d. sheet erosion

43. A watershed has five non-recording gauges installed in its area. The annual rainfall recorded for one
of the years is as follows:

Rain gauge Station I II III IV V

Annual Rainfall (cm) 90.0 110.0 175.0 95.0 125.0

Determine the average rainfall over the watershed. Assume an error of 10% in the estimation of mean
rainfall.

a. 116.0 cm b. 117.0 cm c. 118.0 cm d. 119.0 cm

44. Determine also the optimum number of non-recording and recording rain gauges for this watershed.

a. 6,4 b. 7,3 c. 8,2 d. 9,1

45. The minimum distance from the center of the lone pumped well wherein no drawdown will be
observed is the:

A. Well Radius C. Radius of Interference

B. Drawdown Curve D. Radius of Influence

46. It is a measure of the amount of water that the soil will retain against a tension of 15 atm.

A. Readily Available Moisture C. Permanent Wilting Point

B. Available Moisture D. Field Capacity

47. A 25-cm diameter well is drilled in a vast unconfined aquifer. It has a discharge of 2000 gpm, an
average recharge of 5 mm/day, creating a mile wide cone of depression. The water table height of the
aquifer is 100 m with an aquifer permeability of 7.5 m/day. What is the resulting drawdown due to
pumping and recharge at the same time?
 A. 12.3 m B. 15.8 m C. 21.5 m D. 27.9 m

48. If there is no recharge, what is the drawdown?

A. 13.1 m B. 16.5 m C. 22.9 m D. 29.4 m

49. Elements that are mostly considered as macro-elements

a. Nitrogen, Phosphorus, Potassium b. Nitrogen, Phosphorus, Alkali

c. Nitrogen, Potassium, Kalcium d. Nitogen, Potassium, Chlorine

50. Geologic formations arranged in decreasing economic attractiveness of pumping.

A. Aquifer, Aquiclude, Aquifuge, Aquitard C.Aquifer, Aquiclude, Aquitard, Aquifuge

B. Aquifer, Aquifuge, Aquitard, Aquiclude D. Aquifer, Aquitard, Aquiclude, Aquifuge

51. If a marketer seeks to retain the long-term win-win relationship with its customers and suppliers, it is
engaged in __________

A. Reciprocal Marketing C. Equality Marketing

B. Transactional Marketing D. Relationship Marketing

52. A Statistics Conference is made up of two simultaneous sessions. The 1st session has 6 presenters
while the 2nd session has 5 presenters. In how many ways can the presentation in the conference be
arranged?

a. 86400 B. 840 C. 1680 D. 108000

53. A stone is thrown vertically upward from the ground with an initial velocity of 192 ft/sec. The only force
considered is that attributed to the acceleration due to gravity, which has an approximate constant
value of –32 ft/sec2. How high will the stone rise?

A. 64 ft B. 128 ft C. 256 ft D. 576 ft

54. A reservoir has a capacity of 6x106 m3 and a drainage area of 200 km2. Streamflow averages 350mm
of runoff per year and sediment production is estimated at 1100 metric tons per km2. How long will it
take to reduce the reservoir capacity to 1 x 106 m3? Assuming an average in-place density of 1500
kg/m3.

A. 40 years B. 41.5 years C. 47.5 years D. 49.5 years

55. Viktor and Fleur wish to transfer to Hogwarts University. The probability that Viktor will be accepted
independently of Fleur is 0.80, while the probability that Fleur will be accepted is 0.60. The probability
that only one of them will be accepted is:

A. 0.56 B. 0.44 C. 0.69 D. 0.35

56. Pregnant or ripe fish or ready to spawn is called:

a. Spawner B. Breeder C. Gravid D. Lab-Lab

57. The most appropriate method to use in order to present the trend of the performance of Maquiling
School graduates in the UP Rural Entrance Exam over the last 25 years is ______________.

a. Textual B. Qualitative FDT C. Graphical D. Quantitative FDT

58. A farmer has plenty of yellow corn (8.5% CP) and soya meal (44% CP). How much soya meal will be
needed for a 100 kg mixture containing 14% CP?

a. 14.59 B. 15.49 C. 12.59 D. 13.49 E. 16.49

59. Mutton is to Sheep; Venison is to ___________

a. Deer b. Goat c. Cow d. Carabao

60. The doctor gives you three pills and tells you to take one every half hour. How many minutes will it
take before you run out of pills?

A. 90 B. 120 C. 60 D. 30 E. 150

61. The average moisture content of a rice field is 40%. FC is at 65% with an apparent specific gravity of
1.7 and the rooting depth is 0.3 m. Allowable depletion is 30%. Determine the net application depth

a. 382.5 mm B. 0.3825 cm C. 3825 mm D. 3.825 cm

62. The moisture content of the soil when the pressure is 1.5 atm.
a. Wilting Point B. Wilting Coefficient C. Field Capacity D. Saturation Point
63. The recommended pressure head variation in the lateral between the first and the last sprinkler.

A. 20% B. 40% C. 50% D. 80% E. 100%

64. Find out the available soil water content at the time of irrigation when a border of 150 m long and 10
m wide is irrigated with a stream of 25 l/s. The irrigation is applied at 50 percent soil water availability.
The depth of root zone is 75 cm and bulk density of the soil 1.52 g/cm3. Available water holding
capacity of the soil is 18 percent.

a. 8% b. 9% c. 18% d. 19%

65. Find the required depth of irrigation.

a. 10.26 cm b. 12.06 cm c. 16.02 cm d. 10.62 cm

66. Find the volume of water needed to irrigate the border.

a. 153900 l b. 135900 l c. 225000 l d. 255000 l

67. Find the time required for irrigation.

a. 1.17 hr b. 1.71 hr c. 2.98 hr 2.89 hr

68. The repeated pumping of the newly constructed well in order to remove the fine materials so as to
prevent entry of muddy water, minimize head and well losses and the maximize the effective
hydraulic radius of the well is
a. Well Logging B. Pumping Test C. Pump Testing D. Well Development

69. Volume of water that can be stored in or released from an aquifer per unit horizontal area per unit
change in hydraulic head is

a. Specific Storage B. Storage Yield C. Storage Coefficient D. Transmissivity

70. Local Name of Grouper

a. Lapu-Lapu B. Matang Pusa C. Kapinan D. Ulang

71. Precision Agriculture was developed from these technologies except:

A. GPS B. VRT C. GIS D. OR E. Yield Monitors

72. If an unlined trapezoidal canal with best hydraulic cross-section can be used, what actual depth of
open channel would you recommend to carry 15 cumecs with a velocity of 5 fps? Use 4:1 side slope
and 12% freeboard.

a. 1.45 m B. 1.58 m C. 1.62 m D. 1.79 m

73. Find the absolute and gage pressure at the bottom of a large open container having oil at the top and
water at the bottom. The height of the vessel is 3.66m. The water level is 0.61m measured from the
bottom. The remaining portion is filled with oil having a density of 917kg/m3.

A. 33.42 kPa B. 75.68 kPa C. 125. 19 kPa D. 134.72 kPa

74. The water right based on the concept first time, first in right.
 a. Rule of the Land B. Right of First
C. Appropriation Act D. Doctrine of Founders

75. It also refers to consumptive use by crops.

a. Crop Requirement B. Water Consumption

C. Evapotranspiration D. Field Capacity

76. Determine the size of a pump to irrigate a 9-ha riceland. The water source is a stream with pumping
head of 3 m. Evaporation=5mm/day, percolation=2mm/day, irrigation interval=4 days, irrigation
period=8 hrs, friction loss=0, pump efficiency=75%, irrigation efficiency=60%.

A. 0.74 hp B. 0.89 hp C. 0.92 hp D. 1.65 hp

77. A temporary method of drainage artificially produced in the subsoil with digging a trench from the
surface.

a. Flood Routing B. Deep Canal Drainage C. Trench Drainage D. Mole Drain

78. Techniques recognized to be the most effective and practical means to reduce surface and ground
water contamination while still allowing the productive use of resources.

A. Standard Conservation Techniques b. Best Management Practice

c. Erosion Reduction Management d. Optimized Operations Application

79. A 5-cm (φ) well is drilled in a vast unconfined aquifer. The aquifer as an average groundwater
recharge (due to precipitation) of 2.5 mm/day and a water table height of 75 m. The radius of
influence (of the cone of depression) resulting from the constant discharge of 80 lps is 100 m. If the
aquifer permeability is 4 m/day, what is the resulting drawdown due to pumping and recharge at the
same time?

a. 34.57 m B. 38.6 m C. 42.35 m D. 46.92 m

80. This is used to measure small watersheds, especially those in which the streamflows become quite
low.

a. canal b. flume c. chute d. weir

81. It has a gradually contracting section leading to a constricted throat and an expanding section
immediately downstream.

a. Parshall flume b. Trapezoidal Flume c. Venturi flume d. All of the above

82. Underground geologic formation that is slightly permeable but yields inappreciable amounts of water
when compared to an aquifer.

a. Aquiclude b. Aquifuge c. Aquifer d. Aquitard

83. Vertical distance between the maximum water surface elevation anticipated in design and the top of
retaining banks, pipeline vents, or other structures, provided to prevent overtopping because of
unforeseen conditions.

a. freeboard b. depth c. stage d. bench

84. A computer system which permits the user to examine and handle numerous layers of spatial data.
The system is intended to solve problems and investigate relationships. The data symbolizes real-
world entities (houses to neighborhoods to cities to world scale) including spatial and quantitative
attributes of these entities.

a. GIS b. GPS c. GOS d. Arduino System

85. A satellite-based device that records x,y,z coordinates and other data using global positioning. Its
devices can be taken into the field to record data while driving, flying, or hiking. Ground locations are
calculated by signal from satellites orbiting the Earth.

a. GIS b. GPS c. GOS d. Arduino System

86. It is the total vertical distance the pump must lift the water.
 a. Total dynamic head b. Total Static Head c. Total Suction Head d. Total lifting Head

87. The type of erosion that takes place in small channels which cannot be obliterated by tillage
operations is called:

A. Sheet B. Rill C. Interrill D. Gully

88. Two depths that give the same specific energy in an open channel are called:

A. Critical depths B. Sequent depths C. Dual depths D. Alternate depths

89. Given the following direct runoff hydrograph in m3/s taken at 1-hr interval in the mainstream of a 50
sq. km watershed: 0, 2.8, 13.8, 44.8, 77.8, 37.8, 12.8, 4.5, 1.8, 1.3, 0.9, 0.6, 0.2.The equivalent depth
of direct runoff is:

A. 10.3mm B. 12.3mm C. 14.3mm D. 16.3mm

90. Which of the following is not a major aquaculture species in the Philippines?

A. Carp B. Salmon C. Seaweeds D. Tiger prawn

91. Breeding and growout production of commercially important marine species are grown in zonified
marine cages which the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources refers to as:

A. Industrial cage parks B. Seawater cage farms

C. Ocean cage parks D. Mariculture parks

92. A fully penetrating well installed in a confined aquifer with a transmissivity of 197m2/day is pumped at
a constant rate .If the drawdowns in two observation wells are 8m and 22 m from the pumped well
were observed to b 1.42m and 0.44 m, respectively, the steady state pump discharge is:

A. 200 gpm B. 220 gpm C. 240 gpm D. 260 gpm

93. A trapezoidal irrigation canal has a side slope of 1:1 and a b/d ratio of 3 and a bottom slope of 0.0004
.The roughness coefficient n is 0.015. If the discharge is 3.62 m3/s, the normal depth is:

A. 0.75 m B. 0.85 m C. 0.95 m D. 1.05 m

94. The energy of rainfall that induces erosion is called:

A. rainfall intensity B. erosivity C. erodibility D. raindrop erosion

95. The critical depth in a rectangular channel with a bottom width of 4.0m for a discharge of 5m3/s is:

A. 0.34 m B. 0.44 m C. 0.54 m D. 0.64 m

96. Calculate the depth at which 0.70 m3/s will flow uniformly in a smooth cement-lined circular conduit
(n=0.010) 2m in diameter laid on slope of 1 to 7000.

a. 0.76 m b. 0.67 m c. 0.83 m d. 0.38 m

97. A channel having a rectangular section and base width 3 m carries a flow of 5.70 m3/s. Find the
critical depth.

a. 0.46 m b. 0.64 m c. 0.72 m d. 0.27 m

98. Determine the slope that a concrete circular sewer (n=0.013), 1.50 m in diameter, must have when
flowing at its maximum capacity if its mean velocity is 2.40 m/s.

a. 0.0030 b. 0.0040 c. 0.0050 d. 0.0060

99. A physiological disease of rice that occurs widely on decomposable organic matter is called:

A. rice blast B. bronzing C. tungro D. rice blight

100. Abaca is a common fiber crop ion the Philippines. What is the scientific name of this crop?

A. Agave cantala B.Gossypiumhirsutum C.Agave sisalana D.Musa textilis