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Irrigation and Drainage Engineering MCQ

1. How will the valve open?

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Correct Answer: When the inlet pressure exceeds a pre-set pressure

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2. What will open when the inlet pressure exceeds a pre-set pressure?

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Correct Answer: Pressure Relief Valve

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3. What does a pressure regulator lower the water pressure on?

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Correct Answer: Downstream side of the unit

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4. What do pressure regulators do?

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Correct Answer: Lowers the water pressure on the downstream side

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5. What is a method of controlling wall thickness of pipe?

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Correct Answer: Pressure Rating

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6. What is the loss of pressure caused by?

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Correct Answer: Friction or increase in elevation

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7. What is the loss of pressure caused by friction?

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Correct Answer: Pressure Loss

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8. What type of heads improve the uniformity of the system?

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Correct Answer: Pressure Compensating

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9. How much energy is available to move water through the irrigation components?

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Correct Answer: Pressure

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10. How fast could a watered cool season lawn grow?

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Correct Answer: 4-7 inches

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11. What is used to protect the potable water supply?

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Correct Answer: Backflow prevention device

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12. What is the term for water that is suitable for human consumption?

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Correct Answer: Potable Water

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13. What type of fittings do Polyethylene Pipe use?

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Correct Answer: Insert

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14. When is P.E. used?

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Correct Answer: Flexible plastic pipe which uses insert fittings

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15. What is the term for the location of a connection?

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Correct Answer: P.O.C.

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16. P.O.C. is the location where a connection is made on what?

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Correct Answer: The service line

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17. What is the term for the amount of water plants need to survive and grow?

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Correct Answer: Plant Watering Requirement

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18. Plant Watering Requirement (PWR) is the same as what after being adjusted for various factors?

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Correct Answer: Evapotranspiration

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19. How much water is available to plants?

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Correct Answer: Available Water

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20. What is the abbreviation for Plant Available Water?

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Correct Answer: PA W

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21. What can be connected to a pitot tube to measure the water pressure at the nozzle of a rotary irrigation head?

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Correct Answer: A pressure gauge

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22. What can be used to measure the water pressure?

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Correct Answer: Pitot Tube

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23. What does the acronym "Nozzle Tree" refer to?

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Correct Answer: Refers to the interchangeable nozzle assortment

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24. What does the term nozzle tree refer to?

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Correct Answer: Interchangeable nozzle assortment

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25. What does the term Open Valve mean?

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Correct Answer: An automatic valve through which water will flow unless external influences are applied to close the valve.

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26. What are valves called that will close unless they are closed?

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Correct Answer: Open Valve

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27. What type of valve is normally open?

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Correct Answer: Hydraulic valves

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28. What type of valve doesn't open unless you manually open it?

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Correct Answer: Closed Valve

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29. What are electrical valves called when they're in a closed state?

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Correct Answer: Normally closed

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30. What type of program could be saved to non-volatile memory without the use of battery power?

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Correct Answer: Irrigation controller

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31. What type of memory does the irrigation controller feature hold during a power outage?

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Correct Answer: Non-Volatile Memory

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32. What kind of water can't be consumed?

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Correct Answer: Non-Potable Water

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33. What does the term "non-potable water" mean?

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Correct Answer: Water not suitable for human consumption

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34. Water not suitable for what is it used for?

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Correct Answer: Human consumption

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35. What is the used to adjust the potential (or reference) evapotranspiration in relation to the microclimate?

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Correct Answer: Coefficient

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36. What is used to adjust the potential evapotranspiration in relation to the microclimate?

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Correct Answer: Microclimate Factor

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37. What is the word that means the surrounding geographical and environmental influences that affect an individual site and alter the water scheduling?

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Correct Answer: Climate

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38. What is the term for heads that deliver similar rates regardless of the pattern they cover?

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Correct Answer: Matched precipitation

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39. What type of head delivers 360 degree coverage?

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Correct Answer: Full circle

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40. How much area does the full circle head have to cover?

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Correct Answer: Twice

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41. What is an automatic or manual valve installed at the supply point that controls water flow into the system main line piping?

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Correct Answer: Master Valve

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42. What are the valves in a manual system opened and closed manually?

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Correct Answer: Control valves

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43. What are control valves that are operated manually?

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Correct Answer: Manual System

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44. How many control valves can be grouped together in one location and/or valve box?

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Correct Answer: Two or more

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45. Main line piping is the piping from the backflow prevention device to what?

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Correct Answer: Remote control valves

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46. What is the largest pipe on the irrigation system?

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Correct Answer: The main line

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47. What type of valves are the remote control valves?

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Correct Answer: Quick coupler valves

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48. How many directions can a main line provide water to valves from?

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Correct Answer: Two or more

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49. What does lateral piping allow the sprinkler heads to be connected to?

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Correct Answer: Piping between the remote control valve

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50. What does the term 'Landscape Coefficient' mean?

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Correct Answer: Coefficient used in adjusting the reference evapotranspiration by species, density, and microclimate factors

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51. What is used to adjust reference evapotranspiration by species density and microclimate factors?

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Correct Answer: Landscape Coefficient

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52. What is the art and management of applying water to the landscape in a manner to encourage the growth of plant material and support water conservation known as?

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Correct Answer: Landscape Irrigation

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53. What is the main shut-off device for the complete irrigation system?

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Correct Answer: Isolation Valve

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54. An isolation valve generally is a what?

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Correct Answer: Gate or ball valve

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55. What is the purpose of irrigation?

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Correct Answer: Dust reduction or erosion control

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56. What is the term for irrigation components that are permanently assembled together?

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Correct Answer: Irrigation System

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57. What is the purpose of Irrigation Design?

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Correct Answer: A plan showing graphic or dimensional location of the components of an irrigation system

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58. What is a plan showing graphic or dimensional location of the components of an irrigation system?

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Correct Answer: Irrigation Design

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59. What term is used to refer to the size of an iron pipe?

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Correct Answer: Iron Pipe Size

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60. What is another name for Iron Pipe Size?

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Correct Answer: IPS

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61. What is another name for polyethylene pipe and tubing?

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Correct Answer: Fitting

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62. What is another name for the In-Line Valve?

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Correct Answer: Remote control valve

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63. What is another name for an in-line valve?

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Correct Answer: A remote control valve

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64. What component regulates the on/off mode of the water from the main line to the sprinkler heads?

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Correct Answer: In-Line Valve

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65. What is another term for infiltration rate?

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Correct Answer: Absorption Rate or Percolation Rate

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66. What type of sprinkler head has a driver arm mounted on the side to spin it?

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Correct Answer: Impact Head

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67. What part of the rotary sprinkler head is used to create rotation?

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Correct Answer: Driver arm

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68. Water that is held tightly by the soil is called what?

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Correct Answer: Hygroscopic Water

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69. What is the process of plant material with similar watering requirements due to environmental and/or geographic influences including, but not limited to, soil type, slope, site orientation, and solar radiation?

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Correct Answer: Hydrozone

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70. Along with plant type, slope and site orientation, what else could influence plant watering requirements?

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Correct Answer: Solar radiation

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71. What is the study of fluid while in motion or at rest?

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Correct Answer: Hydraulics

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72. What is the name of the hydraulic controlled system?

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Correct Answer: LAN Hydraulically Controlled

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73. How does LAN Hydraulically Controlled operate valves?

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Correct Answer: Through tubing

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74. What is the term for Heads-to-Head Spacing?

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Correct Answer: 50% spacing

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75. What does the term 'head spacing' mean?

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Correct Answer: The spacing between sprinkler heads

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76. What is the term for the spacing between sprinkler heads?

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Correct Answer: Head Spacing

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77. What is a pollutant?

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Correct Answer: A substance that may affect the color or odor of the water

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78. What is a measure of the degree of risk or harm to the public's health?

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Correct Answer: Hazard

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79. What is the term for Gray Water?

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Correct Answer: Domestic wastewater

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80. What is the substance that doesn't include toilet water containing human waste?

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Correct Answer: Gray Water

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81. GPM stands for what?

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Correct Answer: Gallons per minute

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82. GPM is a standard measurement of what?

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Correct Answer: Water flow

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83. What is the volume of one gallon in fluid ounces?

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Correct Answer: Gallons

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84. GPH – Abbreviation for "gallons per hour". Used when working with what type of irrigation system?

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Correct Answer: Drip irrigation

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85. What is used in some Globe Valve plug designs?

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Correct Answer: Rubber or composition

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86. What does the rotation of the gear driven heads is slower?

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Correct Answer: Constant

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87. What is another name for type of rotary sprinkler?

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Correct Answer: Driven Heads

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88. What type of loss is present when water flows through piping?

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Correct Answer: Friction

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89. What size does an increase in the distance have to be for piping or wiring to account for friction loss?

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Correct Answer: Larger

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90. The farther the distance, the more friction loss in water flow and more resistance in what is encountered?

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Correct Answer: Wiring

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91. What can Valve Company product use to restrict full flow?

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Correct Answer: Wedge-type metal-to-metal gate or disk

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92. What does the term 'point of connection' refer to?

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Correct Answer: POC

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93. Friction loss is encountered on rough surfaces of what?

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Correct Answer: Pipe or component

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94. What causes a pressure loss due to friction?

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Correct Answer: Water flows through all components

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95. What is the unit of measure that FPS stands for?

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Correct Answer: Feet per second

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96. An example of a 100' water tower is 100 ft. of what?

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Correct Answer: Head

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97. What are called the Flush Valves a necessary component in?

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Correct Answer: Drip irrigation systems

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98. What are flush valves used in irrigation systems to keep lines free of?

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Correct Answer: Debris

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99. What is a necessary component in drip irrigation systems to keep lines free of debris?

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Correct Answer: Flush Valves

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100. Flush valves are a desirable, if not necessary, component to keep what free of debris?

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Correct Answer: Lines

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101. What is the term used to describe the higher initial momentary flow through a drip or trickle system?

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Correct Answer: Flush Flow

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102. What affects the flow of water causing a pressure loss?

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Correct Answer: Physical restrictions

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103. What impact do physical restrictions have on flow?

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Correct Answer: Causing a pressure loss

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104. What is another name for an automatic valve?

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Correct Answer: Electrical or hydraulic

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105. What is the type of valve that can be adjusted mechanically?

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Correct Answer: Flow Control Valve

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106. What causes friction loss in piping systems?

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Correct Answer: The movement of water

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107. Friction loss is caused by the movement of water in what system?

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Correct Answer: A piping system

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108. What is FIP referred to as?

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Correct Answer: Female Iron Pipe

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