Surveying MCQs Set-1

1. How many types of Benchmark are there?

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

3. EDM stands for

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

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

6. The biggest of the survey line is called

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

8. Gunter's chain consists of ________________ links.

9. Due to curvature of earth, an object looks

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

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

12. Which of the below is not a classification of 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. The magnetic declination is the difference between

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

16. Hydrographic survey deal with the mapping of

17. Radiation, Intersection and Resection are

18. 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?

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

20. Refraction error is the least in case of

21. The difference between magnetic north and geographic north is

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

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

24. Altimetry may be depicted most accurately by

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

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

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

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

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

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

31. How many types of cross staff are available?

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

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

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

35. In Surveying, offsets are

36. A stone that marks boundary is called

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

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

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

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

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

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

43. 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?

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

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

46. __________errors are small unavoidable fluctuation.

47. The error due to bad ranging is

48. Chain surveying uses the principle of

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

50. Chain surveying is well adopted for