In plane surveying, the area as its projection upon a horizontal plane. of much larger tracts of land such as a country or a of a tract of land 1. taken is However, areas continent are taken as the
In plane surveying, the area as its projection upon a horizontal plane. of much larger tracts of land such as a country or a of a tract of land 1. taken is However, areas continent are taken as the
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taken
of a tract of
plane surveying,
as its projection upon a horizontal plane.
of much larger tracts of land such as a country or a
land
However,
In
the area
is
areas
continent are taken as the
a) projection of the tract
surface at mean sea level
b) actual
the average elevation of the ground surface
c) projection
datum
upon the earth's spheroidal
area of the land
surface as projected
upon
of the tract upon an arbitrarily chosen
determined by averaging the elevations of cri-
d) area
tical reference points defining the surface
e) area projected upon a plane parallel to the horizon-
tal
for
2.
The hectare is the most commonly used unit of area
large tracts of land. It is equal to
d) 10000 sq m
e) 1000 sq m
a) 100 sq m
b) 5000 sq m
c) 1000 ares
3.
The meridian distance of a line is defined as the
center of the line to the
a) longest distance from the
reference meridian
b) perpendicular distance from the midpoint of the line
to the reference parallel
c) shortest
the reference meridian
d) offset
meridian or reference parallel
to
distance from the midpoint of the line
reference
from either the
distance measured
to
the
from the center of the 1ine
e)
distance
me an
reference meridian
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