Surveying MCQs Set-1

1. Chain surveying uses the principle of

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

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

4. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

11. The error due to bad ranging is

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

13. Refraction error is the least in case of

14. Radiation, Intersection and Resection are

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

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

17. Gunter's chain consists of ________________ links.

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

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

20. A stone that marks boundary is called

21. Chain surveying is well adopted for

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

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

24. 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?

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

26. How many types of cross staff are available?

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

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

29. EDM stands for

30. Altimetry may be depicted most accurately by

31. Due to curvature of earth, an object looks

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

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

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

35. Hydrographic survey deal with the mapping of

36. In Surveying, offsets are

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

38. The biggest of the survey line is called

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

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

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

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

43. __________errors are small unavoidable fluctuation.

44. The difference between magnetic north and geographic north is

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

46. The magnetic declination is the difference between

47. How many types of Benchmark are there?

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

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

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