Question Bank: Important Short Questions

II. Answer the following in one or two sentences:

1. How dams are classified?

2. State the circumstances under which each type of dam is suitable.

3. Why the gravity dam is called so?

4. What is an arch dam?

5.When is an arch dam recommended?

6. What are the various types of dams used for storing water?

7. What do you understand by live storage and dead storage in a dam?

8. State the factors which govern the necessity of construction of a buttress dam.

9. Mention any three important advantages of buttress dam.

10. Name the three types of earth dam.

11. State any three advantages of earth dam.

12. What do you understand by dam safety?