Surveying MCQs Set-1

1. How many types of cross staff are available?

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

3. Refraction error is the least in case of

4. Hydrographic survey deal with the mapping of

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

6. How many types of Benchmark are there?

7. The magnetic declination is the difference between

8. The difference between magnetic north and geographic north is

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

10. Chain surveying uses the principle of

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

18. Gunter's chain consists of ________________ links.

19. In Surveying, offsets are

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

21. Chain surveying is well adopted for

22. EDM stands for

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

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

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

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

27. Due to curvature of earth, an object looks

28. Altimetry may be depicted most accurately by

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

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

31. 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?

32. __________errors are small unavoidable fluctuation.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

42. 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?

43. Radiation, Intersection and Resection are

44. The error due to bad ranging is

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

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

47. The biggest of the survey line is called

48. A stone that marks boundary is called

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

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