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Section 2 - Questions Set 2 Flashcards

1
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Mortgage Survey

A
  • Includes property boundaries and building locations

* No topography

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Topographic Survey

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shows contour lines of a specified piece of land and will not show proposed structures

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Boundary Survey

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  • Includes the true property corners of a lot
  • defines boundary of a piece of land in legal terms
  • needed to obtain a building permit
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Plot Plan

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shows all existing and proposed items as well as contours and site boundaries

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In order to change the use of a site from residential to commercial, a LA must apply for _________?

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variance

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Easement

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right of one party to use a portion of the land of another party in a particular way, usually without compensation

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Conveyance

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The transfer of title to land from one person to another by deed; a document by which an interest in land is transferred from one person to another

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Winter winds usually come from the….

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Northwest

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Friable Soil

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Crumbles easily, when the soil is moist and crushes easily from gentle pressure between the thumb and forefinger

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Plastic Soil

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can be easily molded or deformed and remain that way

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Loose Soil

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does not hold together regardless of the situation, therefore it can not be crushed btw two fingers

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Firm Soil

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Requires an adequate amount of pressure from two fingers in order to crush it

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13
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When designing a project, a LA should be aware of

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a. floor area ratio (zoning requirements)
b. easements

c. lot coverage limits
d. setbacks.

ALL

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Fen

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wetland fed by groundwater, dominated by peat moss, rich in mineral salts and is alkaline

Freshwater peat with basic alkaline soil

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Salt Marsh

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Dominated by herbaceous plant material. coastal, often related to estuaries

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Bog

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Freshwater peat with ACIDIC soil

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17
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Meadow

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Field primarily vegetated with grass, wet for part of the year

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mangrove

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saltwater orbrackish

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19
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Riparian

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near or usually fed by a river

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Estuarine

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River or stream in, on the coast out to the sea

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Lacustrine

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Related to a lake

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22
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Wetland banking

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a process of tracking wetland and upland buffer credits that are designated for replacement of future wetland losses. These wetland credits may result from a prior replacement project with excess credits earmarked for banking, or from a wetland creation/restoration project done solely for the purpose of establishing wetland credits in the State Wetland Bank.

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Shear Strength

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The ability of a soil to withstand the pressure from a downhill force

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Angle of Repose

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maximum angle in which the slope of soil remains stable

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25
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Comprehensive Strength

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soils ability to withstand compressive forces from directly opposite sides

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26
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Plastic Limit

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(lower plastic) Water content at which soil passes from plastic to semi or solid state

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27
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What type of survey should be submitted to obtain building permits?

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Boundary Survey

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28
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Land Survey

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establish lengths and directions of boundary lines

29
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Cadastral Survey

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  • maps drawn for the purpose of determining and defining land ownership and boundaries
  • original survey, resurvey, or retracement of public lands within the Public Land Survey of the US for the restoration of property lines
30
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convex slope

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contour lines become increasingly farther apart with elevation

hill goes out like a dome

steeper at the bottom than the top

31
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Concave slope

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Decreasing slope (slope is becoming less steep) - bows inward

32
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Watershed

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an area where all the water that is either in the ground or flows on top of the soil drains into the same place.
made up of stream channel, floodplain, upland aras and groundwater

33
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Cool summer winds come from the

A

Southwest

34
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Closed Traverse

A

connection of lines that enclose an area and whose coordinates are predetermined

used for all property types except for roads and train line boudnaries (which would be an open traverse)

35
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open traverse

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traverse lines that do not return to the starting point

36
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Aliquot Part

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quarter or half division of a section of land

37
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quadrant

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division of a cartesian plane

38
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The base plan

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shows existing site. dimensions, physical features. measure from refrence point.

39
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utility plan

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show buildings mechanical systems

40
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land use plan

A

set of decisions about how the land will be used and the ways to achieve desired uses
Includes:

  1. definition of goals
  2. ordering of land and human material resources
  3. explicit statement of the methods, organization, responsibilities, and schedule to be used
  4. agreed targets
41
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The ideal riser to tread relationship should always add up to

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between 24” and 26”

42
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what type of parking allows for the most amount of parking spaces

A

90 degrees

43
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A functional diagram should be utilized before a

A

site plan

44
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silt

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highly erodible and more likely to collect at the bottom of a slope after hard rain

fine particles of dirt

45
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clay

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smallest soil particle size

46
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Loam

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Rich soil consisting of a mixture of sand, clay, and decaying organic material

47
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Proctor (compaction) Test

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determins max density of a soil needed for specific job site.. Modified Proctor values are higher because they take into account higher densities needed for certain types of construction tests.

48
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Perc test

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Tests soil permeability and ability of soil to filter and absorb septic sewer effluent

49
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Comprehensive plan

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General guide to a community’s future growth and development. Involves population growth, requirements for water, various land use. Has specific goals and objectives

50
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Master plan

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a comprehensive guide for a communitys physical growth

51
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Area Plan

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Describes and details how specific areas should be developed within a city, neighborhood or community.
Referred to as a Specific Plan

52
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Whats a land use plan?

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A towns plans for what the land is going to be used for. (Recreation, development, waste, conservation, etc)

53
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which area of the forest has the largest amount of flora diversity

A

edge

54
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what should be added to soil to make it less alkaline

A

aluminum sulfate

55
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what should be added to make soil less acidic

A

lime

56
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Soil pH

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The degree of acidity or alkalinity of a soil, expressed on a scale from 0 to 14, with 7.0 indicating neutrality, increasing values indicate increasing alkalinity, while decreasing values indicate increasing acidity.

higher: alkaline
lower: acidic

57
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a site plan would be developed in this order

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  1. client wants to develop site
  2. program defined
  3. alternate sites examined
  4. site inventory
58
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Eminent Domain

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The action of a government to take property for public use with just compensation even if the owner does not wish to sell.

59
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factors that influence a land use plan

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population forecast
weather outlook

attitude towards land

economic conditions

60
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Amount of runoff is affected by several factors

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  1. Amount of rain
  2. Length of time it falls
  3. steepness or slope of the land
  4. amount of vegetation in watershed
61
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a comprehensive plan will provide guidelines for…

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types of use
what to preserve

location of new development

62
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what type of wetland system is located in a depression, has plants covering less than 30% and has low salinity

A

lacustrine

63
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Palustrine

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describing material deposited or growing in a marsh

64
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Aquifer

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A layer of rock or sediment that has high hydraulic conductivity

65
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angle of incidence

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angle the sun’s rays hit the earth

66
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Angle of repose:

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The angle of the steepest slope that a pile of uncemented material can attain without collapsing from the pull of gravity. deals with soil

67
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slope needed in order to maintain a grass lope with a lawn mower

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3:1

68
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composite wetlands

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fed by a lake and a stream

69
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Section “of land”

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1 square mile640 acres

36 sections in a 6-mile square township

LARE 2: Inventory and Analysis (18 decks)

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