When an oven-dried sample of soil is kept open in the atmosphere, it absorbs some amount of water. This water is known as

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• The amount of water required to fill up the pore spaces in soil particles by replacing all air held in pore spaces, is known as
• The depth of water required to bring the soil moisture content of a given soil upto its field capacity is called
• The movement of water through the soil surface into the soil, is called infilteration.
• The maximum depth in soil strata, in which the crop spreads its root system, and derives water from the soil, is called
• A part of water which will move out of the soil, if proper drainage is provided, is known as gravitational water.
• The water content at which plants can no-longer extract sufficient water from the soil for its growth, is called
• A part of water which exists in the porous space of the soil by molecular attraction, is known as
• The moisture content of the soil, after free drainage has removed most of the gravity water, is known as
• When the upstream face of a gravity dam is vertical, then the intensity of water pressure at the water surface and at the base respectively will be (where w is unit weight of water and H is the depth of water.)
• A structure constructed in an irrigation canal for the purpose of wasting some of its water, is known as a