Surveying MCQs Set-1

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

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

3. Radiation, Intersection and Resection are

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

5. The biggest of the survey line is called

6. How many types of cross staff are available?

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

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

9. The difference between magnetic north and geographic north is

10. Altimetry may be depicted most accurately by

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

12. A stone that marks boundary is called

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

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

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

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

17. 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?

18. Refraction error is the least in case of

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

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

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

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

23. Hydrographic survey deal with the mapping of

24. In Surveying, offsets are

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

26. __________errors are small unavoidable fluctuation.

27. Gunter's chain consists of ________________ links.

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

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

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

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

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

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

34. Chain surveying uses the principle of

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

36. Chain surveying is well adopted for

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

38. How many types of Benchmark are there?

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

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

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

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

43. The error due to bad ranging is

44. EDM stands for

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

46. The magnetic declination is the difference between

47. 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?

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

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

50. Due to curvature of earth, an object looks