Surveying MCQs Set-1

1. A 20 m chain was found to be 10 cm too long after chaining a distance of 2000m. It was found to be 18 cm too long at the end of day's work after chaining a total distance of 4000 m. What is the true distance, if the chain was correct before the commencement of the day's work?

2. The permissible limits of errors in chaining for measurement on rough or hilly ground is

3. Radiation, Intersection and Resection are

4. The error due to bad ranging is

5. Hydrographic survey deal with the mapping of

6. Which of the following sight will be applicable for a change point?

7. The error in measured length due to sag of chain or tape is known as

8. In Surveying, offsets are

9. The process of a location of intermediate points on a survey line is

10. An error under the same conditions always of the same size and sign is called as

11. The type of surveying in which the curvature of earth is taken into account is called

12. The magnetic declination is the difference between

13. In surveying, the triangles having angles smaller than 30 degree are called as

14. Which of the below is not an instrument used to set right angles?

15. Altimetry may be depicted most accurately by

16. The fundamental principle of surveying is to work from the

17. A 30 m metric chain is found to be 10cm too short throughout a measurement. If the distance measured is recorded as 300 m, what is the actual distance?

18. Chain surveying is well adopted for

19. The "point of curvature" of a simple circular curve is

20. For setting out the right angles, the instrument used is

21. The biggest of the survey line is called

22. Plane and Geodetic surveying are classifications of surveying based on

23. Chain surveying uses the principle of

24. How many types of Benchmark are there?

25. Which of the below is not a means of linear surveying methods?

26. In the triangulation method, the whole area is divided into:

27. When a chain is used at a temperature more than the temperature it was calibrated the error in measured length will be

28. EDM stands for

29. Survey stations may be marked on the ground using a

30. How many types of chains are used in chain surveying?

31. The book in which chain measurements are entered is called

32. Refraction error is the least in case of

33. Gunter's chain consists of ________________ links.

34. The difference between magnetic north and geographic north is

35. Theory of errors and adjustments deals with minimizing the effect of

36. The polar axis of Earth is shorten than equatorial axis by

37. How many types of cross staff are available?

38. A stone that marks boundary is called

39. __________errors are small unavoidable fluctuation.

40. The direction of a line relative to a given meridian is called

41. Negative errors are caused in chain, when its length is

42. The angle between true meridian and the magnetic meridian at the time of observations is known as

43. Which of the below is not a classification of surveying?

44. An offset is a _______________distance of an object measured from the survey line.

45. The imaginary surface connecting points to which water would rise in tightly cased wells from a given point in an aquifer is called as

46. How many types of a compass are used in surveying?

47. In surveying, the angle on the horizontal plane between magnetic north and true north is called as

48. Due to curvature of earth, an object looks

49. Plan is a small-scale representation of a large area.

50. In how many ways can ranging be carried out?