Surveying Online Test – Paper 3

1. During chaining along a straight line, the leader of the survey party has three arrows, and while the follower has five arrows. The distance of the follower from the starting point will be

2. Actually, which is not the method of plane tabling?

3. The main difference between an optical square and a prism square is

4. The observed reading on a leveling staff was 3.525 m. If the staff was 0.125m off from the original ground level, what should be the correct reading?

5. Any arbitrarily assumed level line from which vertical distances are measured is known as

6. Azimuth (direct angles) is an angle measured in

7. In a closed traverse, the closing error should not be more than (where N is the no. of sides of the traverse)

8. Cubic parabola is a type of

9. The direct method of contouring is

10. If the needle of the compass is sluggish the type of error will be

11. The "point of tangency" of a simple circular curve is

12. The height of instrument method is

13. The angle of intersection of a curve is the angle between

14. The best method of interpolation of contours in the direct method of contouring is by

15. Axis method of traverse correction is used when

16. Horizontal equivalent of a uniform slope must be

17. The strength of the fix of a plane table is:

18. The telescope is said to be normal when the

19. Boning rod is used

20. A discrepancy is the difference between

21. A 30m chain was found to be 20cm too long after chaining 1500m. The correct length of the total distance chained will be

22. The method of leveling in which the plane table is set at only one station to take detail is known as:

23. The needle is adjusted for

24. Size of a theodolite is specified by

25. For the construction of a highway railway

26. In leveling across a hill, the level should be set up on

27. The size of the plane table is:

28. For a tacheometer, the additive and multiplying constants are respectively

29. Height of instrument method of leveling, as compared to the rise and fall method, is

30. The purpose of triangulation in a chain survey is

31. The theory of probability is applied to

32. True meridians

33. In the direct method of contouring, the process of locating points lying on a contour is known as

34. A Cadastral Map is a map having

35. Offset angle taken in chain survey may be

36. The levels to which the earthwork will have to be carried out is known as

37. In profile leveling, staff readings on two neighboring pegs 20m apart are 1.200 and 1.00, respectively. Therefore, the proposed road has a

38. Negative errors are caused in the chain when its length is

39. *When it is not possible to set up the level, midway between the two points, then the difference in elevation between them is measured by

40. The perpendicular distance of the midpoint of the line from the reference meridian is known as

41. In a tacheometer provided with an anallatic lens, the distance between the object glass and the vertical axis is 15 cm. The focal length of the objective is 15 cm, and that of the anallatic lens is 10 cm. Hence, the distance between the two lenses is

42. The process of turning the telescope about the horizontal axis in a vertical plane by a complete revolution is known as

43. If the length of a transition curve is such that the full super elevation is attained at the junction with the circular curve, the resultant curve is known as

44. The Bench Mark of a point is 400m. Backsight reading at the benchmark is 2.20, and the foresight reading of point A is 2.10. Find the RL of point A

45. Bowditch's rule is applied to

46. 'SPIRE TEST' is used in the permanent adjustment of theodolite for

47. When a chain line encounters a river:

48. The method most suitable for plotting in hilly areas is:

49. *The two-peg method is used to check the parallelism between the

50. The W.C.B of a line is preferred to a quadrantal bearing merely because