SUBJECTS
|
BROWSE
|
CAREER CENTER
|
POPULAR
|
JOIN
|
LOGIN
Business Skills
|
Soft Skills
|
Basic Literacy
|
Certifications
About
|
Help
|
Privacy
|
Terms
|
Email
Search
Test your basic knowledge |
Civil Engineering Vocab
Start Test
Study First
Subject
:
engineering
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
If you are not ready to take this test, you can
study here
.
Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. An arrangement of pipes - equipment - devices - tanks and structures for treating wastewater and industrial wastes. A water pollution control plant.
Splash Pad
Wastewater Treatment Plant
Weir
landscape architecture registration
2. Branch or lateral sewers that collect wastewater from building sewers and service lines.
Deadend Manhole
Mail Line
Storm Collection System
grade
3. In landscape architecture - an essential sheet showing site boundaries and significant site features - used as a basis for subsequent plan development.
A S T M
base plan
Septic Tank
Activated Sludge Process
4. A large pipe to which a series of smaller pipes are connected. Also called a HEADER.
Lateral Cleanout
softscape
Angle of Repose
Manifold
5. Broken stones - boulders - or other materials placed compactly or irregularly on levees or dikes for the protection of earth surfaces against the erosive action of waves.
air rights
site plan
Riprap
Day Tank
6. The natural elements with which landscape architects work - such as plant materials and the soil itself.
cost-benefit analysis
Liquefaction
softscape
parkway
7. The linear or a real dimension over which a higher component transmits load to a lower component
built environment
hardscape
Sedimentation Basin
Bearing
8. The legal grant of right-of-use to an area of designated private property.
Elevation
Earth Shift
easement
Equalizing Basin
9. An opening or point of access in a building wastewater pipe system for rodding or snake operation.
B T U
building (construction) permit
Rubble - Coursed
Wasteline Cleanout
10. A device made of pipe fittings used to prevent sewer gases escaping from the branch or lateral sewer from entering a building sewer.
Balustrade
Handhole Trap
master plan
Storm Collection System
11. A break in a lateral pipe somewhere between the sewer main and the building connection.
Lateral Break
Outlet
Interceptor
Riprap
12. Horizontal shoring members - usually square - rough cut timber - that are used to hold solid sheeting - braces or vertical shoring members in place. Also called STRINGERS.
Rubble - Coursed
new town
Walers
Splash Pad
13. American Society for Testing and Materials
Seasonal Water Table
A S T M
Rubble - Ordinary
Shear Wall
14. A sewer designed to carry both sanitary wastewaters and storm or surface water runoff.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Equalizing Basin
Combined System
National Park Service (NPS)
15. The formation of separate layers (of temperature - plant - or animal life) in a lake or reservoir. Each layer has similar characteristics such as all water in the layer has the same temperature. Also see THERMAL STRATIFICATION.
Stratification
Manifold
Curb inlet
Combined System
16. A multinational organization of landscape architects whose purpose is the promotion of landscape design and planning.
land use
Storm Runoff
International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA)
Caisson
17. In the United States - a certification of individuals entitled to use the term 'landscape architect' or to practice landscape architecture or both - by means of examination and required degree and experience criteria.
Septic Tank
Shear Wall
Capillary Action
landscape architecture registration
18. Downward movement of the soil or of a structure which it supports
Settlement
Interceptor
reclamation
Two-Way Cleanout
19. A site that might appear to be natural but has elements and features that were planned and specified by a landscape architect. Designed landscapes include Central Park in New York to the siting of buildings.
designed landscape
reclamation
Bearing
Manhole
20. A small box-like structure that contains valves used to regulate flows.
Vault
master plan
Forest Service
Capillary Action
21. Regulations specifying the type of construction methods and materials that are allowable on a project.
environmental design professions
Impermeable
Cross Braces
building codes
22. A wastewater treatment process used to convert dissolved or suspended materials into a form more readily separated from the water being treated. Usually the process follows primary treatment by sedimentation. The process commonly is a type of biologi
Estimated Flow
Earth Shift
Secondary Treatment
Storm Sewer
23. A structure or chamber which is usually sunk or lowered by digging from the inside. Used to gain access to the bottom of a stream or other body of water.
Caisson
Potable Water
greenbelt
Surcharge Manhole
24. A reactor or basin in which baffles or other devices create a series of compartments. The environment and the resulting microbial population within each compartment can be controlled to some extent by the operator. The environmental conditions (food
Selector
Wastewater Treatment Plant
Main Sewer
Interconnector
25. The oxidation ditch is a modified form of the activated sludge process. The ditch consists of two channels placed side by side and connected at the ends to produce one continuous loop of wastewater flow and a brush rotator assembly placed across the
Compaction
Clear Well
Oxidation Ditch
site plan
26. A legal means of protecting beautiful views and associated aesthetic quality along a site by restricting change in existing features without government approval.
scenic easement
planning
environmental design professions
landscape architecture registration
27. An opening in pipes or sewers designed for rodding or working a snake into the pipe in either direction. Twoway cleanouts are most often found in building lateral pipes at or near a property line.
Two-Way Cleanout
softscape
Collection System
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
28. A rough guess of the amount of flow in a collection system. When greater accuracy is needed - flow could be computed using average or typical flow quantities. Even greater accuracy would result from metering or otherwise measuring the actual flow.
greenbelt
ecology
Estimated Flow
Select Bedding
29. Any method of determining the weight a compacted material is able to support without damage or displacement. Usually stated in pounds per square foot.
Storm Water
hardscape
Soil Displacement
Compaction Test
30. The process of adding air to water. Air can be added to water by either passing air through water or passing water through air. In wastewater treatment - air is added to freshen wastewater and to keep solids in suspension. With mixtures of wastewater
manipulation of space
Bedding
Aeration
Hydrostatic Pressure
31. A wastewater pumping station that lifts the wastewater to a higher elevation when continuing the sewer at reasonable slopes would involve excessive depths of trench. Also - an installation of pumps that raise wastewater from areas too low to drain in
Adsorption
planning
conservation plan
Lift Station
32. Masonry composed of irregularly shaped stones laid without regularity of coursing - but well bonded.
Surface Runoff
Rubble - Ordinary
Shear Wall
Axial Load
33. A network of pipes - manholes - cleanouts - traps - siphons - lift stations and other structures used to collect all wastewater and wastewatercarried wastes of an area and transport them to a treatment plant or disposal system. The collection system
Newel Post
Water Table
Collection System
Council of Landscape Architecture Registration Boards (CLARB)
34. A pipe or conduit that carries wastewater or drainage water. The term 'collection line' is often used also.
Sewer
CADD
designed landscape
Cistern
35. Rain and snow water accumulated in the earth's porous rock.
designed landscape
Septic Tank
Terminal Manhole
ground water
36. Legal right to use the property of others for a specific purpose. For example - a utility company may have a fivefoot easement along the property line of a home. This gives the utility the legal right to install and maintain a sewer line within the e
Elevation
Easement
Oxidation Ditch
environmental impact
37. A relatively clear or forested area left untouched in or near a city. It may be active open space - such as a baseball field - or passive open space - such as an area of natural woodland.
Trunk System
Sewage
Secondary Treatment
open space
38. A system of major sewers serving as transporting lines and not as local or lateral sewers.
Trunk System
Trunk Sewer
City Beautiful Movement
Newel Post
39. A branch of biology dealing with the relationship between living things and their environment.
conservation plan
ecology
Selector
manipulation of space
40. Elements added to a natural landscape - such as paving stones - gravel - walkways - irrigation systems - roads - retaining walls - sculpture - street amenities - fountains - and other mechanical features.
drainage
hardscape
Outlet
building codes
41. The lowest point of the channel inside a pipe - conduit - or canal.
Terminal Manhole
Invert
Day Tank
Compaction Test
42. The pipe system for collecting and carrying water and watercarried wastes from domestic and industrial sources to a wastewater treatment plant.
Manhole Bedding
Weir
Wastewater Collection System
zoning
43. A type of easement granting permission to a constructor or developer to build over a street or structure.
Storm Collection System
air rights
building (construction) permit
planning
44. The science and art of design - planning - management and stewardship of the land. Landscape architecture involves natural and built elements - cultural and scientific knowledge - and concern for resource conservation to the end that the resulting en
Outlet
Secondary Treatment
National Park Service (NPS)
landscape architecture
45. The science and management of land - especially rural - agricultural land.
Combined Sewer
Rubble - Random
agronomy
Aquifer
46. An unstable condition of a solution (water) in which the solution contains a substance at a concentration greater than the saturation concentration for the substance.
base plan
softscape
Grease Trap
Supersaturated
47. That part of the precipitation falling on a drainage area which does not escape as surface stream flow during a given period. It is the difference between total precipitation and total runoff during the period - and represents evaporation - transpira
Potable Water
Retention
landscape architect
multiple use
48. A preliminary plan showing proposed ultimate site development. Master plans often comprise site work that must be executed in phases over a long time and are thus subject to drastic modification.
Cistern
Combined System
master plan
cost-benefit analysis
49. The pipeline extending from the water main to the building served or to the consumer's system.
building codes
Select Backfill
Service Pipe
view
50. One or a series of oneinch diameter holes through a manhole lid for purposes of venting dangerous gases found in sewers.
Cross Braces
Manhole Vents
Rubble - Random
Vault