Surveying MCQs Set-1

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

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

3. Chain surveying is well adopted for

4. How many types of cross staff are available?

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

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

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

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

9. 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?

10. A stone that marks boundary is called

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

12. Refraction error is the least in case of

13. Gunter's chain consists of ________________ links.

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

15. 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?

16. Altimetry may be depicted most accurately by

17. EDM stands for

18. Due to curvature of earth, an object looks

19. Hydrographic survey deal with the mapping of

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

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

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

23. How many types of Benchmark are there?

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

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

26. The magnetic declination is the difference between

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

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

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

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

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

32. Chain surveying uses the principle of

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

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

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

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

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

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

39. In Surveying, offsets are

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

41. __________errors are small unavoidable fluctuation.

42. Radiation, Intersection and Resection are

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

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

45. The error due to bad ranging is

46. The biggest of the survey line is called

47. The difference between magnetic north and geographic north is

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

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

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