Civil Drafting Technology - 7th Edition

Chapter 6 - Surveying Fundamentals

Chapter Test
Answer the following questions or respond as needed. Type your answer on the line below each
item.

61

What is aerotrangulation?

62

What is a topographic survey?

63

In what type of survey is triangulation used?

64

A route survey is often termed an open traverse. Why?

65

What type of survey would be used to lay out a new highway?

66

Can the type of survey in question 65 be easily checked?

67

What is a station point?

68

What type of instrument is used to measure bearings?

69

An angle to the right or left of the backsight is termed what?

610

Compare and contrast bearings and azimuths.

611

What is the difference in miles between the equatorial and polar

diameters of the earth?

612

What type of mathematical calculations are used in a plane survey?

613

What is EDM?

614

What is the formula for calculating the sum of the angles of an interior
angle traverse?

615

What is the system called that uses satellites to locate points on the

earths surface?
616

Identify the types of traverses in Figure T61.

617

Name at least four pieces of data about a point that can be recorded by a
total station and stored in a data collector.

618 What type of map is shown in Figure 619?