UVU EGDT 1400 Exam Study Guide (Midterm) Questions and Answers
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PLS - Professional Land Surveyor
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PLS - Professional Land Surveyor
**steel surveying tapes are available in which lengths - Answer-300, 200, 100, 50
What is some ancient evidence of surveying? - Answer-The Pyramids and Aqueducts were surveyed.
-It talks about it in the bible.
3 presidents on mount Rushmore were land surveyors. Which was not? - Answer-Roosev...
UVU EGDT 1400 Exam Study Guide
(Midterm) Questions and Answers
**steel surveying tapes are available in which lengths - Answer-300, 200, 100, 50
What is some ancient evidence of surveying? - Answer-The Pyramids and Aqueducts
were surveyed.
-It talks about it in the bible.
3 presidents on mount Rushmore were land surveyors. Which was not? - Answer-
Roosevelt was not a surveyor
Who are other famous surveyors? - Answer-Lewis and Clark, Daniel Boon, and Herbert
Hoover.
What skills should a surveyor have? - Answer-Good trig, algebra, computer, and Public
relation skills
**modern surveying measuring tapes are generally divided into - Answer-feet, tenths,
hundredths
**Calculations can be made to correct sag in tape. these are based on 10lbs of pull on
tension spring handle. True or false? - Answer-True
What is an alidade? - Answer-Used for mapping, Produced in the field
**Mistake to cause largest error in horizontal taping - Answer-incorrect line pin count
How long is a ferlong - Answer-660'
**How long was Gunter's chain? - Answer-66'
**links in 1 Gunter chain - Answer-100
**Length of ROD (unit of measurement) - Answer-16.5'
How many square rods are in a square acre? - Answer-160
How many square chains per acre? - Answer-There are 10
**How many acres in a square mile? - Answer-640
How much does it cost for a 100' steel tape? - Answer-It cost $235.00 for a 100'.
, **10 chains & 50 links = - Answer-639'
What is a square mile also called? - Answer-A section.
What is a Section divided into 4 parts called? - Answer-A quarter Section. ( Each is 160
acres)
What is a Quarter- Quarter section or parcel? - Answer-(Section divided by 4) After
dividing that again into 4 it is a 40 acre parcel.
1 Acre = ___Chains x ___furlongs - Answer-one chain 66' by 1 furlong or 660'
**Gunter's chains in 1 mile - Answer-80
**Approx length of link in 1 Gunter's chain - Answer-7.92"
**Rods in 1 mile - Answer-320
**Square feet in 1 acre - Answer-43,560'
**Square chains in 1 acre - Answer-10
How many feet in a mile? - Answer-5280'
**1 of largest impacts on surveying technology - Answer-the military
What is a transit? - Answer-This is an old surveyors tool that was used to measure
Horizontal angles and vertical angles
What is a Digital Theodolite? - Answer-The theodolite consists of a telescope mounted
movably within two perpendicular axes, the horizontal axis, and the vertical axis.
**Attach or remove sunshade of instrument by counterclockwise motion - Answer-False
**Clockwise rotation of leveling screw will cause leveling air bubble to move travel away
from screw being turned - Answer-False
**Purpose of shooting foresight - Answer-to obtain elevation of turning point or
benchmark
**H.I. (in differential/profile leveling) means - Answer-height of horiz line of sight above
beginning benchmark
**Profile leveling is used when - Answer-the elevations of a series of points are desired
along a given line or course
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