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Surveying Final (12-9-21) Flashcards

1
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Provides line, lean, control elevation, horizontal position, dimensions, and configurations for construction operations.

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Construction Survey

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Are made to plan, design, and construct highways, railroads, pipelines, or other linear projects.

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Route Survey

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3
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Defines shorelines and depths of lakes, streams, oceans, reservoirs, or other bodies of water.

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Hydrographic Survey

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Has been as the science, art, and technology of determining relative positions of points above, on, or beneath the earth’s surface or establishing such points.

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Surveying

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5
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The point about which a line rotates to form an angle.

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Vertex

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Established a network of horizontal and vertical monuments used as a reference framework for other surveys.

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Control Survey

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What are permanent reference points that are marked to be used in the future?

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Monuments

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The last foot of this tape is marked in tenths and inches and requires mental subtraction.

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Cut Tape

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The amount of two dimensional space encompassed within the boundary of a closed figure or shape.

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Area

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10
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Consists of a magnetized steel needle mounted on a pivot at the center of a graduated circle.

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Compass

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Defined as a system of hardware, software, and data in organizational structure for collecting, storing, manipulating, and spatially analyzing geo-reference data.

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GIS

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12
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Surveying the curved surface of the Earth. They are employed to determine the relative positions of widely spaced monuments. Based on sphere.

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Geodetic Surveying

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13
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The reference base for field work and computations is assumed to be a flat, horizontal surface.

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Plane Surveying

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14
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One end of the axis on which the Earth turns.

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True North

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15
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The line of zero declination.

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Agonic Line

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16
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Is used to mark the end of a tape or an intermediate point.

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Chain Pin

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17
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How many minutes are in a degree?

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60

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18
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Define Blunder

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A significant mistake due to human error.

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Define Natural Error

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Caused by variation in wind, temperature, humidity, atmospheric pressure, refraction, gravity, and magnetic declination.

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20
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Define Instrumental Error

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Result from imperfections in equipment.

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21
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Describe the difference between systematic errors and accidental error.

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Accidental errors are usually small, random, and avoidable, while systematics errors are repetitive and constant(caused by errors in the surveying equipment).

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22
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Define Descrepency

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Difference between two measured values of the same quantity

23
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Define Precision

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Refers to the refinement or consistency of a group of measurements

24
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Define Accuracy

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The absolute nearness of measured quantities to their true values.

25
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If you know the name of the land owner, you can go to the ______ to look them up.

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Land Roll

26
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If you know the legal description or where the property is located you can go to the ______ to find the tract or parcel number.

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Map Book

27
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This deed relinquishes all rights of ownership to a parcel of land.

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Quitclaim Deed

28
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All deeds are recorded in this office.

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Chancery Clerk

29
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A deed is considered a ______.

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Conveyance of Trust

30
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This type of deed is filed when the property is put up for collateral.

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Deed of Trust

31
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This deed is used when minerals can be sold or retained separate from the land.

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Mineral Rights Deed

32
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This deed is filed when a property owner does not file his or her taxes.

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Tax Lien

33
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This document is filed when property has something to do with the school.

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16th Section Lease

34
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The _____ has everything that was ever transferred or deeded for a specific property.

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Township Book

35
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The division of territory 6 miles long on a S,E, and W boundaries. Slightly less on the N, which accounts for the correction lines located every 6 miles on the standard parallel.

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Township

36
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True meridians that extend N from the baseline or from standard parallels at intervals of 24 miles E and W of the principal meridians.

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Guide Meridian

37
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Row or line of N-S townships 6 miles apart and numbered consecutively E or W from the principal meridian.

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Range

38
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The survey record of the parceling of land according to a prescribed method by law or the deed description of property.

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Legal Description

39
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Is composed of app. 640 acres and measures 1 sq. mile.

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Section

40
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Consists of app. 160 acres

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Quarter Section

41
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The longitude true north and south line that intersects the base line at the initial point.

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Principal Meridian

42
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The latitude true East and West line that intersects the Principal Meridian at the initial point.

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Base Line

43
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The origin of a survey system established by astronomical observation.

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Initial Point

44
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2 pieces of information on a property record card.

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Legal Description

Land Owner Name

45
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Et al means _______

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and others

46
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Et ux means _____

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and wife

47
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Et vir means ______

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and husband

48
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This type of deed is filed when the property is put up for collateral.

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Deed of Trust

49
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What does GPS stand for?

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Global Positioning System

50
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Two types of obstructions encountered when using GPS in a forest setting.

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Tree Canopy

Tree Trunks

51
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What makes a GPS a more convenient mapping tool rather than a traditional system?

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Don’t have to have a direct line of sight.

52
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This helps you locate the parcel number for a piece of land when you don’t know who owns it.

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Aerial Photograph

53
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Height above or below sea level.

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Altitude

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