Soil-Origin and Properties 1

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1. Soil transported by water is called

A) Aeoline
B) Glacier 
C) Alluvial
D) Colluvial

... Answer is C


 

2. Which among the following is an example for lacustrine soil?

A) black cotton soil
B) bentonite clay
C) carved clay
D) marine clay

... Answer is C
Lacustrine soil-transported by water and deposited in lakes
 

3. Soils like humus, muck, peat are examples of__________formed by the decomposition of organic matters.

A) cumulose soil
B) inorganic soil
C) residual soil
D) chemically soil

... Answer is A
Organic soil or cumulose soil.- Not used for engineering purposes.
 

4. Cohesion less soils are

A) sands
B) silt
C) clays
D) silt and clay

... Answer is A 

 

5. A fine grained soil is which has 

A) low permeability
B) high compressibility
C) may or may not be plastic
D) all of these

... Answer is D 

 

6. Submerged soil is based on

A) Darcy's law
B) Abrams law
C) Archimedes principle
D) Stokes law

... Answer is C

 

7. Water content or moisture content can have values

A) 0 to 100%
B) can be negative values
C) <100%
D) can be 100% 200%... So on

... Answer is D 
Water come can have any values greater than zero
 

8. Which soil is more denser

A) cohesion less soil
B) cohesive soil
C) organic soil
D) none of these

... Answer is A 
Cohesion less soil has more density than cohesion soil
 

9. Which method gives accurate value for water content of soil?

A) pycnometer
B) calcium carbide
C) sand bath
D) oven dry

... Answer is D

 

10. Due to compaction the void ratio of a soil is reduced from 1 to 0.6 . What is the percentage volume loss accounted?

A) 80%
B) 20%
C) 10%
D) 90%

... Answer is B

 

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