MULTIPLE CHOICE ( Answer only)

1. The process employed in gathering information concerning any body of water and its
adjacent land areas.
a. Hydrothermal Surveying c. Oceanic Surveying
b. Topographic Surveying d. Geographical Surveying
2. A unit used for the measurement of water depth and is equivalent to six (6) feet.
a. Cubic c. Fathom
b. Tide d. Tide Range
3. A current or steady flow of water running along the earth’s surface.
a. Tide c. Current
b. Stream d. Ebb tide
4. The study, description, and mapping of oceans, seas, lakes, and rivers especially with
references to their navigational and commercial or other uses.
a. Hydrography c. Contour
b. Topography d. Reconnaissance
5. A graduated and rounded piece of lumber, about 3 meters long, used for taking
soundings.
a. Sounding Pole c. Sounding Craft
b. Tidal Datums d. Coxswain
6. Usually a length of sash or hemp cord, braided flax, or nylon cord, with a sounding lead
attached to one end.
a. Leadline c. Sounding Pole
b. Sextant d. Fathometer
7. A measuring device which automatically records soundings taken on a moving vessel.
a. Leadline c. Sounding Machine
b. Tide Gage d. Fathom
8. Instrument for measuring the height of the tide.
a. Tide Gage c. Tidal Datums
b. Leadline d. Fathometer
9. The horizontal movement of water accompanying tides and which is produced by the
combined action of astronomical, hydrological, and meteorological factors.
a. Flood tide c. Tidal Current
b. Ebb Tide d. Slack Water
10. Refers to the speed of current flow.
a. Set c. Ebb Flow
b. Current d. Drift
11. Characterized by two high and two low waters each tidal day.
a. Semidiurnal Tide c. Tide
b. Mixed Tide d. Diurnal Tide
12. A type of tide which has two high waters and two low waters.
a. Semidiurnal Tide c. Tide
b. Diurnal Tide d. Mixed Tide
13. The person who directs all survey operations of the Party.
a. Chief operator c. Leadsman
b. Chief of Party d. Chief Engineer
14. The person who alerts the shore party that surrounding is about to begin.
a. Lookout c. Recorder
b. Signalman d. Coxswain
15. A floating object anchored in place in a body of water by a heavy weight attached by a
rope or chain.
a. Buoy c. Floats
b. Flag d. Boat
16. This method of electronic positioning was originally developed for blind bombing by
military aircraft and aerial photographic reconnaissance.
a. Short range Navigation c. Radio Acoustic Ranging
b. Long range Navigation d. Electronic Position Indicator
17. A method of measuring the depth of water by determining the time required for the sound
waves to travel from a point near the surface of the water to the bottom and back.
a. Radio acoustic c. Echolocation
b. Echo Sounding d. Sound Machine
18. Is the process of widening, enlarging, cleaning or deepening of channels in harbors, rivers
and canals
 a. Dredging c. Contour
b. Excavating d. Discharge
19. The commonly used type of float
a. Surface Float c. Floating
b. Subsurface Float d. Rod Floats
20. A type of float may be made out of wooden rod or a metal tube.
a. Rod Float c. Surface Floats
b. Subsurface Float d. Floater
21. Instrument used for indirect measurement of velocity in streams.
a. Price Meter c. Vane Meter
b. Pygmy Meter d. Current Meter
22. Consists of a wheel made with six conical cups fastened to a vertical shaft.
a. Pygmy meter c. Price Meter
b. Vane Meter d. Ott Meter
23. Similar in Price Meter except that it is much smaller and scaled down in proportion
a. Pygmy Meter c. Ott Meter
b. Vane Meter d. Haskel Meter
24. Fitted with a lightweight hard rubber propeller having three or four blades.
a. Ott Meter c. Hoff Meter
b. Haskel Meter d. Pygmy Meter
25. This method the velocity of the stream is observed at two tenths and eight tenths of the
depth below the water surface in the vertical.
a. Two point method c. Integration Method
b. Vertical velocity curve Method d. Single Point Method
26. When this method employed the current meter is positioned at the depth of the expected
thread of mean velocity or at a depth for which the coefficient for reducing the mean
velocity has been determined.
a. Two point Method c. Vertical velocity curve Method
b. Integration Method d. Single Point Method
27. The current meter is lowered slowly and at a uniform rate along the vertical from the
water surface to the streamed and raised back to the surface
a. Two point Method c. Vertical velocity curve Method
b. Integration Method d. Single Point Method
28. Method of determining discharge is used primarily for obtaining the peak flow of a
stream after the stage has receded.
a. Two point Method c. Velocity curve Method
b. Integration Method d. Slope area Method
29. Commonly used when a moderate degree of precision is required in determining the
effective capacity of a body water.
a. Cross Section Method c. Slope Area Method
b. Contour Method d. Velocity Area Method
30. A reference base line or shore traverse is established from which the water line and the
desired shore topography are located.
a. Cross Section Method c. Slope Area Method
b. Contour Method d. Velocity Area Method

II. For the given chain of triangles shown in the accompanying figure and tabulation,
perform station and figure adjustment by the approximate method.

ANGLE OBSERVED VALUE ANGLE OBSERVED VALUE

a 296°14’39” l 73°07’49”
b 63 °45’25” m 174°03’17”
c 254°23’41” n 66°52’24”
d 45°10’30” o 182°18’41”
e 60°25’40” p 49°12’17”
f 71°35’28” q 61°36’42”
g 165°42’39” r 43°28’34”
h 50°26’36” s 54°16’40”
i 72°15’25” t 262°14’55”
j 48°32’57” u 79°37’44”
k 64°15’45” v 280°22’10”
III. DRAW THE CONTOURLINES OF THE GIVEN ELEVATION READINGS TO MAKE A TOPOGRAPHIC MAP
WITH CONTOUR INTERVAL OF 1.0 M.

IV. THE RIGHT AND LEFT WATER EDGES OF A STREAM ARE 2.5 AND 31.50M. RESPECTIVELY FROM AN
INITIAL REFERENCE POINT. VERTICALS ARE LOCATED AT DISTANCES 5.0, 8.0, 11, 14, 17, 20, 23, 26, AND 29
M. FROM THE REFERENCE POINT. DEPTHS OF VERTICALS ARE 0.65, 1.00, 1.45, 2.35, 2.6, 2.8, 2.55, 2.10
AND 1.0 M. MEAN VELOCITIES IN THE VERTICALS ARE 0.25, 0.55, 0.7, 0.95, 0.95, 1.1, 1.2, 0.8 AND 0.25
M/SEC. RESPECTIVELY. ASSUMING THAT THE DISCHARGE IN THE END SECTIONS OF THE STEAM TO BE
ZERO, DETERMINE THE FOLLOWING:

A. DRAWING OF THE CROSS-SECTION OF THE STREAM.

B. CROSS- SECTIONAL AREA OF THE STREAM (SQ. M.)
C. DISCHARGE OF THE STREAM (CU. M/SEC)
D. AVERAGE VELOCITY OF FLOW OF THE STREAM (M/SEC).