Civil Engineering: Surveying Final
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Surveying - ✔✔Position
Level Surface - ✔✔All points are same elevation
Backsight - ✔✔Rod Reading of a point of known elevation
Horizontal - ✔✔Lines of Longitude
Digital Level - ✔✔Computes readings by using barcodes
Random Error - ✔✔+ or - and go to zero with repeated measurements
Geographic Reference - ✔✔A means of indicating position
Plane Surveying - ✔✔Ordinary field and topographical surveying in which
the curvature of the earth is disregarded
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, GPS - ✔✔Position by satillites
Foresight - ✔✔Rod Reading on a point of unknown elevation
Side Shot - ✔✔A survey reading to locate a point off the traverse
Vertical Exaggeration - ✔✔Horizontal Scale/Vertical Scale
Turning Point - ✔✔A point temporarily located and marked in order to
establish the elevation or position of a surveying instrument at a new
station.
Geodedic Surveying - ✔✔Surveying in which account is taken of and
corrections made for the curvature of the earth's surface
Datum - ✔✔A fixed starting point of a scale
Benchmark - ✔✔Permanent known elevation w/ respect to datum
Standard Deviation - ✔✔A measure that is used to quantify the amount of
variation or dispersion of a set of data values
Precision - ✔✔Closeness of measurements to eachother
Accuracy - ✔✔close to the true value
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Exam Questions and Answers 100%
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Surveying - ✔✔Position
Level Surface - ✔✔All points are same elevation
Backsight - ✔✔Rod Reading of a point of known elevation
Horizontal - ✔✔Lines of Longitude
Digital Level - ✔✔Computes readings by using barcodes
Random Error - ✔✔+ or - and go to zero with repeated measurements
Geographic Reference - ✔✔A means of indicating position
Plane Surveying - ✔✔Ordinary field and topographical surveying in which
the curvature of the earth is disregarded
1
Katelyn Whitman, All Rights Reserved © 2025
, GPS - ✔✔Position by satillites
Foresight - ✔✔Rod Reading on a point of unknown elevation
Side Shot - ✔✔A survey reading to locate a point off the traverse
Vertical Exaggeration - ✔✔Horizontal Scale/Vertical Scale
Turning Point - ✔✔A point temporarily located and marked in order to
establish the elevation or position of a surveying instrument at a new
station.
Geodedic Surveying - ✔✔Surveying in which account is taken of and
corrections made for the curvature of the earth's surface
Datum - ✔✔A fixed starting point of a scale
Benchmark - ✔✔Permanent known elevation w/ respect to datum
Standard Deviation - ✔✔A measure that is used to quantify the amount of
variation or dispersion of a set of data values
Precision - ✔✔Closeness of measurements to eachother
Accuracy - ✔✔close to the true value
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Katelyn Whitman, All Rights Reserved © 2025
