Surveying
This three-legged stand or frame supports camera object used for survey
What is tripod?
This large river flows through downtown Dayton and outlets to the Ohio River.
What is The Great Miami River?
The three most common materials used in bridge construction.
What is concrete, steel, and wood?
This octagonal sign is used to control traffic movement at road intersections and is universally used in every country.
What is a Stop Sign?
In most residential neighborhoods in Ohio, this is the posted speed limit.
What is 25 mph?
This device consisting of sealed glass tube filled with liquid helps create a horizontal line of sight plane surface.
What is a level?
This device uses signals from satellites to determine your location on Earth.
What is GPS or What is global positioning system?
The Golden Gate Bridge is this type of structure.
What is suspension bridge?
This circular roadway design encourages motorists to 4-way yield instead of 4-way stop at road intersections.
What is roundabout?
A double yellow striped pavement marking is painted on the roadway to keep opposing traffic motorists in their respective traffic lanes. This is called…
What is the centerline?
This pole is used primarily used in land surveying to measure elevation.
What is Prism or Surveying Prism?
This continent lies in all four hemispheres: north, south east, and west? (Hint: It crosses both the Equator and the Prime Meridian)
What is Africa?
The forces exerted on a bridge caused by vehicles or pedestrians.
What is live load?
Garrett Morgan invented this 3 light color-coded timing device to help motorists travel through street intersections.
What is Traffic Signal or What is Traffic Light?
In case of emergency fire, vehicles are not allowed to be parallel parked within 10 feet of this water device.
What is a fire hyrant?
This marker is driven into the ground dividing your property line and your neighbors.
What is a cornerstone?
This term describes a representation of the Earth’s curved surface on a flat document.
What is map? Or What is Map projection
The forces exerted on a bridge due to the self weight of the structure.
What is dead load?
A pedestrian traffic light shows a hand encouraging people not to walk. This hand color is universally used.
What is Orange? Or more specific What is Portland Orange?
The lowest volume roads with low speed limits are called local roads. The highest volume roads with high speed limits are called: (hint I-75)..
What are freeways? Or What are Interstates?
A surveyor calls OUPS to locate utilities. Color blue is noted for water. This color is noted for gas
What is yellow?
This acronym GIS is a computer software/hardware that analyzes referenced land data.
What is geographic information system or What is geographic information science?
Concrete is made up of these three main ingredients.
What is water, cement, and aggregate(rock/sand)?
Traffic studies are used to design traffic signals for safety and various roadway projects. There are 3 main topics addressed: 1) total traffic volume, 2) traffic speeds, and…
What are traffic accident reports?
These concrete design features are used to divide highways for opposing traffic motorists.
What are medians? Or Portable barriers?