TTU surveying Lab quizzes Answered Correctly Latest Update 2025-2026
What is the number one rule of the surveying lab? - Answers Handle all equipment with care
Missing more than ______ classes will result in a failing grade for the course? - Answers Two
All distances or lengths measured in your surveying lab class should be measured to the nearest
_______ of a foot - Answers Hundredth
Making below ________ total lab grade will equal to a zero for the lab - Answers 70%
What is the name of the building that was paced in lab #1? - Answers Experimental Sciences
What should go on a site plan drawing? - Answers -North arrow
-Scale
-Name of location
Closed toe shoes and long pants must be worn to every lab T/F - Answers True
It is acceptable to create lab reports in pen T/F - Answers False
When opening a field book, the left page has _______ lines and the right page has _______ lines -
Answers Horizontal, Graph
Failure to abide by the policies and rules set forth in the field laboratory manual will have no effect on
your surveying lab average T/F - Answers False
All field notes and sketches associated with a surveying lab report should be neat, organized, in the
proper format and easily followed by another individual T/F - Answers True
The date, day, and time for field notes goes on the (right/left) page in a field notebook - Answers right
Neat and organized field notes are important because they _________ - Answers -Could be used as a
court document
-need to be easy to follow for anyone
-document important aspects of a field site
Any instrument used for angle and distance measurement can be set up over any point T/F - Answers
False
Accuracy is _________? - Answers The closeness of the measured value to the "exact value"
A closed traverse _________ - Answers Begins and ends at the same point
, When measuring an angle, you look back at your reference point or _______ and then rotate to the next
hub of the angle you are measuring, also called the _______. - Answers Backsight, foresight
154.783 degrees converted to DMS - Answers 154 degrees, .783 x 60 = 46.98, .98 x 60 = 58.8
Answer= 154 d, 46 m, 59 s
The date, day, and time for field notes goes on the (right/left) page in the field notebook - Answers Right
A four sided traverse has a sum of 360 degrees - Answers True 180(n-2)= 360
You can put dimensions on a site plan T/F - Answers False
There are __________ seconds in a degree - Answers 3600
When measuring the sides of a traverse using a tape measure, where does each corner exactly start? -
Answers At the center of the mag nail, where the dimple is
A turning point does not need to be on a hard point like a sidewalk T/F - Answers False
An auto level is able to rotate vertically (up and down) T/F - Answers False
Draw the symbol used for an instrument setup on a site plan - Answers Looks like a pie sign
Using the appropriate variables listed below, write the equation used to find the height of instrument
(ELEV, HI, FS, BS) - Answers HI=ELEV+BS
When placing the instrument on the tripod you must_______ - Answers -match up the triangular base
with the tripod top so that they are aligned
-immediately screw the tripod knob into the instrument base
After pushing the 0set function on the total station, the angle will read ______ - Answers 0 degrees
The round rubber coated ring encompassing the entire eyepiece assembly is used to focus the cross
hairs T/F - Answers False (the whole view)
To measure the distance between prism pole and total station, you would need to push the button
shaped like a square, which is surrounded by four lines T/F - Answers False (should be the triangle)
In the formula for computing the theoretical sum of the degrees in a polygon, 180*(n-2), what does the
N stand for? - Answers -Number of sides
-Number of interior angles
To check a reference point's angle for a traverse, you need to compare the sum of the experiment
angles to _________ degrees - Answers 360
What is the number one rule of the surveying lab? - Answers Handle all equipment with care
Missing more than ______ classes will result in a failing grade for the course? - Answers Two
All distances or lengths measured in your surveying lab class should be measured to the nearest
_______ of a foot - Answers Hundredth
Making below ________ total lab grade will equal to a zero for the lab - Answers 70%
What is the name of the building that was paced in lab #1? - Answers Experimental Sciences
What should go on a site plan drawing? - Answers -North arrow
-Scale
-Name of location
Closed toe shoes and long pants must be worn to every lab T/F - Answers True
It is acceptable to create lab reports in pen T/F - Answers False
When opening a field book, the left page has _______ lines and the right page has _______ lines -
Answers Horizontal, Graph
Failure to abide by the policies and rules set forth in the field laboratory manual will have no effect on
your surveying lab average T/F - Answers False
All field notes and sketches associated with a surveying lab report should be neat, organized, in the
proper format and easily followed by another individual T/F - Answers True
The date, day, and time for field notes goes on the (right/left) page in a field notebook - Answers right
Neat and organized field notes are important because they _________ - Answers -Could be used as a
court document
-need to be easy to follow for anyone
-document important aspects of a field site
Any instrument used for angle and distance measurement can be set up over any point T/F - Answers
False
Accuracy is _________? - Answers The closeness of the measured value to the "exact value"
A closed traverse _________ - Answers Begins and ends at the same point
, When measuring an angle, you look back at your reference point or _______ and then rotate to the next
hub of the angle you are measuring, also called the _______. - Answers Backsight, foresight
154.783 degrees converted to DMS - Answers 154 degrees, .783 x 60 = 46.98, .98 x 60 = 58.8
Answer= 154 d, 46 m, 59 s
The date, day, and time for field notes goes on the (right/left) page in the field notebook - Answers Right
A four sided traverse has a sum of 360 degrees - Answers True 180(n-2)= 360
You can put dimensions on a site plan T/F - Answers False
There are __________ seconds in a degree - Answers 3600
When measuring the sides of a traverse using a tape measure, where does each corner exactly start? -
Answers At the center of the mag nail, where the dimple is
A turning point does not need to be on a hard point like a sidewalk T/F - Answers False
An auto level is able to rotate vertically (up and down) T/F - Answers False
Draw the symbol used for an instrument setup on a site plan - Answers Looks like a pie sign
Using the appropriate variables listed below, write the equation used to find the height of instrument
(ELEV, HI, FS, BS) - Answers HI=ELEV+BS
When placing the instrument on the tripod you must_______ - Answers -match up the triangular base
with the tripod top so that they are aligned
-immediately screw the tripod knob into the instrument base
After pushing the 0set function on the total station, the angle will read ______ - Answers 0 degrees
The round rubber coated ring encompassing the entire eyepiece assembly is used to focus the cross
hairs T/F - Answers False (the whole view)
To measure the distance between prism pole and total station, you would need to push the button
shaped like a square, which is surrounded by four lines T/F - Answers False (should be the triangle)
In the formula for computing the theoretical sum of the degrees in a polygon, 180*(n-2), what does the
N stand for? - Answers -Number of sides
-Number of interior angles
To check a reference point's angle for a traverse, you need to compare the sum of the experiment
angles to _________ degrees - Answers 360
