1- The Main facilities at a harbor are

A) Navigation Channel and Gap

B) Harbor Basin and Breakwater
C) Berthing and anchorage areas
D) All the Above
2- The supporting facilities at a harbor are
A) Container and Stock yards
B) Warehouses and Transit shed
C) Offices and Road Nets
D) All the Above
3- What causes the ocean's tides?
A) Energy from the Sun's rays
B) Gravitational pull of the Sun and Moon, and the rotation of the Earth
C) All of the above
D) None of the Above
4- How many high tides in diurnal tides in a day
A) 1
B) 2
C) 3
D) 4
5- The periodic rise and fall of the ocean waters produced by the attraction forces between the earth
and both moon and the sun called
A) Tidal range
B) Tides
C) Neap tide
D) Spring level
6- What is a diurnal tide cycle
A) A tide cycle that occurs once a month
B) A tide cycle that occurs twice a week
C) A tide cycle that occurs once a day
D) A tide cycle that occurs three times a day
7- What do we call the flow of water as the tide rises or falls
A) Tidal current
B) Tidal river
C) Tidal stream
D) Tidal wave
8- A type of tides that has the cycle rise and fall of water surface as one high and one low water level in
a lunar day (24.84 hours)
A) Spring tide
B) Diurnal Tides
C) Semidiurnal tides
D) Mixed Tides
9- The tide produces a tidal cycle (high and low water) in one-half the lunar day (12.42 hours) or two
nearly equal tidal cycles in one lunar day named
A) Spring tide
B) Diurnal Tides
C) Semidiurnal tides
D) Mixed Tides
10- The tide range is
A) The time it takes for a low tide to become a high tide
B) the difference between mean high water and mean low water
C) The rate at which the tide changes
D) The difference in height between consecutive high and low waters
11- How many high tides in semidiurnal tides in a day
A) 1
B) 2
C) 3
D) 4
12- Semidiurnal tide produces
A) a tidal cycle (high and low water) in one-half the lunar day (12.42 hours)
B) one high and one low water level in a lunar day (24.84 hours)
C) a higher high tide in the month
D) None of these
13- Mixed Tides are
A) A combination of diurnal and semidiurnal tides characteristics
B) Tidal cycling has two different high water level in the lunar day
C) one high and one low water level in a lunar day (24.84 hours)
D) None of these
14- The mean tide range is
A) The time it takes for a low tide to become a high tide
B) The speed of the tidal current
C) the difference in height between mean high water and mean low water
D) The difference in height between consecutive high and low waters
15- The Coastal tidal currents include
A) Longshore and reversing currents
B) Reversing currents
C) Flood and ebb currents
D) B and C
16- What tidal current occurs when is the tide is coming in a harbor or toward the shoreline
A) Flood current
B) Ebb current
C) None of the above
D) All of the above
17- What called the highest tides that occur at intervals of half a lunar month when the earth, moon, and
sun are aligned in phase
A) Spring tides
B) Diurnal tides
C) Neap tides
D) None of the above
18- If the charted depth at a particular location is 4.1m and the height of tide is 2.60m what is the
maximum water depth there
A) 4.10 m
B) 1.50m
C) 6.70m
D) 5.40m
19- If the charted depth at a selected location is 4.1m and the height of tide is 2.60m what is the minimum
depth, there
A) 4.10 m
B) 1.50m
C) 6.70m
D) 5.40m
20- What called the lowest tides that occur twice a month at first and last quarter when the moon and the
sun are at right angles to the earth
A) Spring tides
B) Diurnal tides
C) Neap tides
D) None of the above
21- What tidal current occurs when is the tide is going out a harbor or seaward
A) Flood current
B) Ebb current
C) Reverse current
D) None of the above
22- The average height of the higher high water over a 19-years period is named
A) Mean higher high water (MHHW)
B) Mean high water (MHW)
C) Mean sea level (MSL)
D) None of theses
23- the average level for all stages of the tide over a 19-years period is named
A) Mean higher high water (MHHW)
B) Mean high water (MHW)
C) Mean sea level (MSL)
D) None of theses
24- The height of an ocean wave increases as
A) the wind speed increases
B) the wind blows for longer times
C) the distance over which the wind flows over the water increases
D) all of these
25- The distance between two wave crests is called the
A) wavelength
B) wave height
C) throw
D) period
26- What is the fundamental base from which most coastal and harbor boundaries are determined
A) Tidal range
B) Tidal height
C) Tidal datum
D) None of these
27- Parts of Mexico Gulf have:
A) diurnal tides
B) semi diurnal tides
C) mixed tides
D) None of these
28- Rosetta coast have:
 A) diurnal tides
B) semi diurnal tides
C) mixed tides
D) None of these
29- If HHWL is (+10.00m), MHWL is (+8.00m), LLWL is (-4.00m) and MLWL (-3.00m), then mean tidal range
is
A) 14.00m
B) 11.00m
C) 13.00m
D) 12.00m
30- If MHHWL is (+10.00m), MHWL is (+8.00m), MLLWL is (-4.00m) and MLWL (-3.00m), then the great
diurnal tidal range is
A) 14.00m
B) 11.00m
C) 13.00m
D) 12.00m
31- Mean tide range is greater at
A) Diurnal tides
B) Spring tides
C) Neap tides
D) Mixed tides
32- Mean tide range is smaller at
A) Diurnal tides
B) Spring tides
C) Neap tides
D) Mixed tides
33- Spring range is ------ neap range
A) Equal
B) Smaller than
C) greater than
D) None of these
34- On Rosetta Coast Egypt if we notice that the crest of tide is at 6.00 am 22/5/2019 then the next crest
will happen
A) At 12.00 pm 22/5/2019
B) At 6.50 pm 22/5/2019
C) At 6.50 am 23/5/2019
D) At 12.40 pm 23/5/2019
35- The level of lowest astronomical tide LAT, i.e. the lowest low water that we can ever expect in normal
circumstances refers to
A) Charted datum
B) Charted depth
C) Low sea level
D) None of these
36- The graphical representation of the direction, frequency, intensity and duration of winds at location
over a period of time is called
A) Wind Graph
B) Wind Rose
C) PWD
 D) None of these
37- The Prevailing wind direction is
A) The direction during which the wind is blowing for the longest period of the time during a
considered period.
B) The direction during which the strongest wind is blowing during a considered period.
C) The direction during the wind is blowing for continuous period with higher speed.
D) None of these
38- The significant wave height is defined as the average of the highest of ……………of wave height readings
recorded over the fetch.
A) Sum
B) One third
C) Two fives
D) Two
39- The wave generating continuous area of water located in deep water zone and the wind bellows on it
with constant speed and direction over the year named as:
A) Harbour
B) Fetch
C) Pitch
D) Turning basin
40- The height of water waves estimated in fetch called:
A) Significant wave height
B) Maximum wave height
C) Average wave height
D) Root mean square wave height
41- The waves are generated by …………… over the fetch.
A) Ship movement
B) Current
C) Wind
D) Tide
42- Adjusted wind speed always is …………… wind speed.
A) Equal to
B) Smaller than
C) Greater than
D) Half
43- A wave with a period T = 10 seconds is propagated shoreward over a uniformly sloping shelf from a
depth d = 200 m to a depth d = 3 m, the wave celerity C and length L at d = 200 meters may be
estimated as
A) 17 m/sec, and 170 m.
B) 5.4 m/sec, and 54 m
C) 15.6 m/sec, and 156 m.
D) 4.3 m/sec, and 43m
44- A wave with a period T = 10 seconds is propagated shoreward over a uniformly sloping shelf from a
depth d = 200 m to a depth d = 3 m, the wave celerity C and length L at d = 7.8 meters may be
estimated as
A) 8.284 m/sec, and 82.84 m.
B) 5.4 m/sec, and 54 m
C) 15.6 m/sec, and 156 m.
D) 4.3 m/sec, and 43m
45- If the wave height and period in deep zone equal 5.0m and 10 secs. respectively, the wave length and
celerity at water depth 9.50 m will be
A) 91.1 m, 9.1m/sec
B) 95m, 9.5 m/sec
C) 100m, 9 m/sec
D) 110m, 11 m/sec
46- If the wave height and period in deep zone equal 5.0m and 10 secs. respectively, the wave energy and
wave height at water depth 9.5 m (Kr = 0.80) will be
A) 175, 4 m
B) 190, 4 m
C) 184, 4 m
D) 164, 4 m
47- If the wave height and period at water depth 5 m equal 2.0m and 10 secs. respectively, the group
celerity and wave length will be
A) 1.6m/sec, 16 m
B) 6 m/sec, 71 m
C) 7 m/sec, 100 m
D) 6 m/sec, 100 m
48- If the wave height and period equal 4.0m and 9 secs. respectively, at water depth 20 m the wave
group number will be
A) Greater than 0.50
B) Greater than 1.0
C) lower than 0.50
D) None of above
49- Usually, in the case of Fetch-limited condition, …………… is greater than fetch duration.
A) Ship speed
B) Wind duration
C) Wave period
D) Adjusted wind speed
50- According to SPM (1984), the Duration-limited condition occurs when wind duration is less than
A) Ship speed
B) Wave period
C) Current duration
D) Fetch duration
51- If we registered over the fetch that the wave height of 6 m occurred 3 times, wave height of 10 m
occurred 1 time, wave height of 3 m occurred 5 times, wave height of 7 m occurred 2 times, wave
height of 4 m occurred 9 times, and wave height of 8 m occurred 6 times. From the previous records
calculate Hsig, H1/6, Hr.m.s.
A) 9m, 10m, 7.1m.
B) 10m, 6m, 1.4m.
C) 4m, 0.17m, 2.8m.
D) None of the above
52- Determine the significant wave height and period using chart if: fetch length = 100 N.M, wind duration
= 10 hr, and wind speed = 22 knots.
A) 7.5 ft, 7.3 sec.
B) 7 ft, 6.9 sec.
C) 11 ft, 8.4 sec.
D) 8.5 ft, 7.5 sec.

Question on Wind Roses

 Why is the drawing of a wind rose? What is the meaning of the prevailing wind direction and
what about the importance?
 Table (1) gives the wind measured data (periods, directions and speeds) for a selected location
during a year.
TABLE (1): WIND DATA

No. in hrs of occurrences of wind blowing from directions indicated

Wind 345 015 045 075 105 135 165 195 225 255 285 315
speed
(knots) 014 044 074 104 134 164 194 224 254 284 314 344
1-10 600 577 339 210 293 195 125 228 200 1357 900 339
11-20 238 234 32 50 32 20 19 183 160 491 594 470
21- 30 75 43 10 11 4 4 12 46 68 48 149 192

31-50 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 23 8 0 0 0
* The rest hours of the year are of calm wind, unrecorded data and variable winds.
It is required to:
 Plot the wind rose by using two different methods?
 Determine the prevailing wind direction?