Surveying MCQs Set-1

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

2. Due to curvature of earth, an object looks

3. __________errors are small unavoidable fluctuation.

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

5. 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?

6. The magnetic declination is the difference between

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

14. Chain surveying is well adopted for

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

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

17. Refraction error is the least in case of

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

19. Gunter's chain consists of ________________ links.

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

21. 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?

22. A stone that marks boundary is called

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

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

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

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

27. The error due to bad ranging is

28. How many types of Benchmark are there?

29. Radiation, Intersection and Resection are

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

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

32. The difference between magnetic north and geographic north is

33. How many types of cross staff are available?

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

35. Hydrographic survey deal with the mapping of

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

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

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

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

40. In Surveying, offsets are

41. EDM stands for

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

43. Altimetry may be depicted most accurately by

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

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

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

47. The biggest of the survey line is called

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

49. Chain surveying uses the principle of

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