Question Bank: Important Short Questions

II. Answer the following in one or two sentences:

 1. Define the terms: (i) Surveying and (ii) Levelling.

2. What are the objects of surveying?

3.State the purposes of surveying.

4. What are the primary types of surveying?

5. What is meant by observation in geodetic surveying?

 6. Name any five instruments used for surveying.

 7. Name the two methods by which measurement of distances between two points on theearth's surface is done.

8. Name any three instruments used for measuring horizontal distance.

9. Name any three instruments used for marking stations on the ground.

10. What is meant by well-conditioned triangle?

11. Define the term: Chain triangulation.

12. Define the two different types of offsets measured in a chain survey. 13. State any three uses of chain surveying.

14. State any three limitations of chain surveying.

15. State any three errors in chaining.

16. State the objective of levelling.

17. Name any three levelling instruments.

18. Name the two types of levelling.

19. Compare the height of collimation method and rise and fall method of determining thedifference in level between two consecutive points.

20. State the assumption made in the Simpson's rule method of finding the area.

21. State the Simpson's Rule.

22. State the Trapezoidal Rule of finding the area.