Surveying MCQs Set-1

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

2. How many types of Benchmark are there?

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

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

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

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

7. Altimetry may be depicted most accurately by

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

9. A stone that marks boundary is called

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

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

12. EDM stands for

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

14. In Surveying, offsets are

15. The biggest of the survey line is called

16. Chain surveying uses the principle of

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

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

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

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

21. Hydrographic survey deal with the mapping of

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

23. The magnetic declination is the difference between

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

25. How many types of cross staff are available?

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

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

28. Refraction error is the least in case of

29. Chain surveying is well adopted for

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

31. The error due to bad ranging is

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

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

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

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

36. 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?

37. Due to curvature of earth, an object looks

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

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

40. Gunter's chain consists of ________________ links.

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

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

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

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

45. 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?

46. The difference between magnetic north and geographic north is

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

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

49. __________errors are small unavoidable fluctuation.

50. Radiation, Intersection and Resection are