Surveying MCQs Set-1

1. How many types of Benchmark are there?

2. Chain surveying uses the principle of

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

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

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

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

7. How many types of cross staff are available?

8. Chain surveying is well adopted for

9. Refraction error is the least in case of

10. The difference between magnetic north and geographic north is

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

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

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

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

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

16. In Surveying, offsets are

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

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

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

20. Due to curvature of earth, an object looks

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

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

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

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

25. Gunter's chain consists of ________________ links.

26. __________errors are small unavoidable fluctuation.

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

28. The error due to bad ranging is

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

30. Hydrographic survey deal with the mapping of

31. 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?

32. The magnetic declination is the difference between

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

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

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

36. Radiation, Intersection and Resection are

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

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

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

40. EDM stands for

41. Altimetry may be depicted most accurately by

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

43. The biggest of the survey line is called

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

45. 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?

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

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

48. A stone that marks boundary is called

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

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