Surveying MCQs Set-1

1. Radiation, Intersection and Resection are

2. The magnetic declination is the difference between

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

4. How many types of Benchmark are there?

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

6. How many types of cross staff are available?

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

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

9. Chain surveying is well adopted for

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

11. 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?

12. In Surveying, offsets are

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

14. Refraction error is the least in case of

15. Hydrographic survey deal with the mapping of

16. The biggest of the survey line is called

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

18. The difference between magnetic north and geographic north is

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 fundamental principle of surveying is to work from the

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

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

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

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

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

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

34. EDM stands for

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

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

37. A stone that marks boundary is called

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

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

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

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

42. Gunter's chain consists of ________________ links.

43. __________errors are small unavoidable fluctuation.

44. 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?

45. The error due to bad ranging is

46. Due to curvature of earth, an object looks

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

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

49. Altimetry may be depicted most accurately by

50. Chain surveying uses the principle of