Surveying MCQs Set-1

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

2. EDM stands for

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

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

5. Due to curvature of earth, an object looks

6. Gunter's chain consists of ________________ links.

7. 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?

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

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

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

11. __________errors are small unavoidable fluctuation.

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

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

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

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

16. In Surveying, offsets are

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

18. Refraction error is the least in case of

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

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

21. Radiation, Intersection and Resection are

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

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

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

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

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

27. Altimetry may be depicted most accurately by

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

29. Chain surveying is well adopted for

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

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

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

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

34. The magnetic declination is the difference between

35. The error due to bad ranging is

36. The difference between magnetic north and geographic north is

37. A stone that marks boundary is called

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

39. How many types of Benchmark are there?

40. The biggest of the survey line is called

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

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

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

45. Hydrographic survey deal with the mapping of

46. Chain surveying uses the principle of

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

48. How many types of cross staff are available?

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

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