Surveying MCQs Set-1

1. The biggest of the survey line is called

2. 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?

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

4. The magnetic declination is the difference between

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

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

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

8. How many types of Benchmark are there?

9. Chain surveying is well adopted for

10. Gunter's chain consists of ________________ links.

11. Refraction error is the least in case of

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

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

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

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

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

17. In Surveying, offsets are

18. Due to curvature of earth, an object looks

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

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

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

22. The difference between magnetic north and geographic north is

23. Hydrographic survey deal with the mapping of

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

34. Radiation, Intersection and Resection are

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

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

37. Altimetry may be depicted most accurately by

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. In how many ways can ranging be carried out?

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

41. A stone that marks boundary is called

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

43. __________errors are small unavoidable fluctuation.

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

45. The error due to bad ranging is

46. EDM stands for

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

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

49. How many types of cross staff are available?

50. Chain surveying uses the principle of