GENERAL SURVEYING 2 (QUIZ 1)

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Across
  1. 3. hydrographer’s worksheet used in the field to plot the details of the survey while it is still in progress.
  2. 7. A preliminary step is the careful the area to be surveyed.
  3. 8. ____________ is the study of the movement, distribution, and quality of water throughout the Earth.
  4. 9. the volume of water flowing past a section of a stream, canal, flume, and other waterways. It is usually expressed in cubic feet per second or cubic meters per second.
  5. 12. a map or chart used in navigation. It is basically similar to a topographic map except that water depths, navigational markers, and the character of underwater surface are indicated.
  6. 15. an imaginary line on the surface of the earth found underwater, all points of which are of the same elevation. They are sometimes known as depth curves or bathymetric contours.
Down
  1. 1. __________ are specific tide levels which are used as surfaces of reference for depth measurements in the sea and as a base for the determination of elevation on land.
  2. 2. _____________ are office plots of all data gathered during survey. These represent the data after all corrections have been applied
  3. 4. the process of making measurements in streams and rivers for the purpose of predicting the rate of discharge at various water levels or stages.
  4. 5. are caused by the attractive forces of the sun and moon.
  5. 6. _____________ is that branch of physical oceanography dealing with the measurement and definition of the configuration of the bottoms and adjacent land areas of oceans, lakes, rivers, harbors, and other water forms on Earth.
  6. 9. ___________ the process of scooping or sucking up mud, sand, rocks and other material underwater for the purpose of enlarging, deepening or clearing channels, harbors, rivers, and other bodies of water.
  7. 10. a current or steady flow of water running along the earth's sur HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEYING is defined merely as the surveying of a properties of liquids. s water. ties surface.
  8. 11. a unit used for the measurement of water depth.
  9. 13. ______________ deals with the mechanical properties of liquids.
  10. 14. _______________the process of measuring the depth of a body of water at a particular point.