Surveying MCQs Set-1

1. Gunter's chain consists of ________________ links.

2. How many types of cross staff are available?

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

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

5. A stone that marks boundary is called

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

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

8. The difference between magnetic north and geographic north is

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

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

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

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

13. Radiation, Intersection and Resection are

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

15. The biggest of the survey line is called

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

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

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

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

21. Hydrographic survey deal with the mapping of

22. Chain surveying is well adopted for

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

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

25. Altimetry may be depicted most accurately by

26. The error due to bad ranging is

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

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

29. In Surveying, offsets are

30. Chain surveying uses the principle of

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

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

33. How many types of Benchmark are there?

34. The magnetic declination is the difference between

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

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

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

38. 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?

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

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

41. __________errors are small unavoidable fluctuation.

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

43. Due to curvature of earth, an object looks

44. EDM stands for

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

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

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

48. Refraction error is the least in case of

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

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