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Stuff Every Surveying Scout Should Know

Practice facts for the Surveying merit badge. Not an official Scouting America credential.

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  1. What is the main job of surveying?
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    Determining positions of points using distances and angles. Surveying determines terrestrial positions of points from distances and angles between them, often to make maps and boundaries.

  2. What is a person who practices land surveying called?
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    A land surveyor. A professional in land surveying is called a land surveyor, per the source.

  3. Which instrument measures angles in horizontal and vertical planes?
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    A theodolite. The theodolite uses circles or alidades to measure angles in both the horizontal and vertical planes.

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  1. What is the main job of surveying?
  2. What is a person who practices land surveying called?
  3. Which instrument measures angles in horizontal and vertical planes?
  4. What does a total station add to a theodolite?
  5. What does GPS stand for?
  6. In RTK surveying, what does the fixed base station send to the rover?
  7. Why do surveyors take repeated measurements?
  8. What is a gross error in surveying?
  9. What is a systematic error?
  10. What does leveling determine?
  11. What is a benchmark used for in leveling?
  12. What is triangulation?
  13. What is a baseline in triangulation?
  14. What is traversing in surveying?
  15. What is a cadastral survey?
  16. What is a topographic survey?
  17. What is an as-built survey?
  18. What is a hydrographic survey?
  19. What is a subdivision survey?
  20. What is a datum in surveying?
  21. What is plane surveying?
  22. When is geodetic surveying used?
  23. What is a deed used for in property surveying?
  24. What is a drone useful for in surveying?
  25. What is lidar used for in surveying?
  26. What does a 3D scanner help surveyors do?
  27. Why should a surveyor identify poisonous plants and animals?
  28. What first aid topic is listed for surveying injuries?
  29. What should you do for heat-related reactions while surveying?
  30. What is a Gunter's chain?
  31. What did the ancient Egyptian rope stretcher do?
  32. What is the Public Land Survey System?
  33. What is a survey monument?
  34. What is a scale bar used for on a survey map?
  35. What does a north arrow on a survey map show?
  36. What is photogrammetry?
  37. What is a turning point when leveling?
  38. What is a close in a survey?
  39. What is offsetting used to measure?
  40. What is a control network in surveying?
  41. What is a survey foot broken into?
  42. What is a licensed land surveyor generally required to do?
  43. What does a quantity surveyor deal with?
  44. What is the difference between accuracy and precision in surveying?
  45. What is the first step in using a total station for radial measurement?
  46. What should a survey map include besides the plotted points?
  47. What is a career opportunity that uses surveying skills?
  48. Why do surveyors use tripods?
  49. What is a retroreflector used for in surveying?
  50. What does a surveyor do with a measuring tape?
  51. What is a GNSS receiver? 🔒
  52. What is GIS used for in surveying? 🔒
  53. What is a robotic total station able to do? 🔒
  54. What is a helicopter with GPS and a laser scanner used for? 🔒
  55. Why do surveyors place beacons on the ground during aerial surveys? 🔒
  56. What is a stave used for in surveying? 🔒
  57. Why do surveyors carry portable radios? 🔒
  58. What is land surveying software used for? 🔒
  59. What is CAD software commonly used for in surveying? 🔒
  60. What does the National Geodetic Survey provide? 🔒
  61. What is a geoid used to model? 🔒
  62. What is a Cartesian coordinate system used for in surveying? 🔒
  63. What is true north often defined as in a coordinate system? 🔒
  64. How can systematic errors with known effects be handled? 🔒
  65. What causes random errors in surveying? 🔒
  66. What is the Bowditch method used for? 🔒
  67. What is the principle of least squares used for? 🔒
  68. What does a deformation survey determine? 🔒
  69. What does a foundation survey ensure? 🔒
  70. What is a mortgage survey used to check? 🔒
  71. What does a stakeout survey mark on the ground? 🔒
  72. What does a structural survey report on? 🔒
  73. What is an existing conditions survey focused on? 🔒
  74. What is an underwater survey used for? 🔒
  75. What is chain surveying named after? 🔒
  76. What is compass surveying based on? 🔒
  77. What is plane table surveying known for? 🔒
  78. What is tacheometric surveying used to measure? 🔒
  79. What is aerial surveying performed with? 🔒
  80. What is a survey assistant or chainman usually responsible for? 🔒
  81. What can a survey technician often do? 🔒
  82. What does the International Federation of Surveyors represent? 🔒
  83. What is a building surveyor able to provide? 🔒
  84. What is extrinsic evidence in cadastral surveying? 🔒
  85. What is the first step in the Check, Call and Care protocol? 🔒
  86. What does the ABCDE first aid protocol stand for? 🔒
  87. What does the 'D' in the CABD CPR protocol stand for? 🔒
  88. What is the first step in the AMEGA protocol? 🔒
  89. What does the 'M' in the AMEGA protocol stand for? 🔒
  90. What does the 'E' in the AMEGA protocol stand for? 🔒
  91. What does the 'G' in the AMEGA protocol stand for? 🔒