Build on your hydrology fundamentals with 20 new, slightly more challenging conceptual questions for the FE Civil exam.

Part 2 focuses on applying concepts, interpreting results, and recognizing the assumptions behind common hydrologic methods. Topics include water balance, hydrograph analysis, unit hydrographs, rational-method limitations, flood probability, curve numbers, and reservoir routing.

This video follows the Basic Hydrology topics in the NCEES FE Civil exam syllabus. Every question includes an answer explanation, with no numerical calculations required.

Try each question before the answer appears. Pause for extra thinking time.

CHAPTERS
00:00 Introduction
00:20 Watershed Water Balance
01:04 Rainfall Measurement and Storm Timing
02:32 Runoff Volume and Baseflow Interpretation
04:00 Unit Hydrographs: Scaling and Superposition
06:12 Rational Method: Assumptions and Applications
09:08 Rainfall Frequency and Flood Risk
10:36 Curve Number: Runoff Volume and Limitations
12:48 Detention and Conservation of Mass
13:32 Maximum Reservoir Storage
14:16 Reservoir Routing and Time Steps


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