Surveying MCQs Set-1

1. Radiation, Intersection and Resection are

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

3. 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?

4. The error due to bad ranging is

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

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

7. Chain surveying uses the principle of

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

9. A stone that marks boundary is called

10. Hydrographic survey deal with the mapping of

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

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

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

14. 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?

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

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

17. __________errors are small unavoidable fluctuation.

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

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

20. The difference between magnetic north and geographic north is

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

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

23. How many types of cross staff are available?

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

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

26. How many types of Benchmark are there?

27. Due to curvature of earth, an object looks

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

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

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

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

32. The magnetic declination is the difference between

33. Altimetry may be depicted most accurately by

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

35. Gunter's chain consists of ________________ links.

36. In Surveying, offsets are

37. The biggest of the survey line is called

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

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

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

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

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

43. EDM stands for

44. Chain surveying is well adopted for

45. Refraction error is the least in case of

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

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

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

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

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