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. Any designated use or activity on a piece of land.
Vault
landscape
Invert
land use
2. The precipitation that cannot be absorbed by the soil and flows across the surface by gravity. The water that reaches a stream by traveling over the soil surface or falls directly into the stream channels - including not only the large permanent stre
Surface Runoff
Gravity Flow
A S T M
Sanitary Sewer
3. A strip of unspoiled - often treed - agricultural or other outlying land used to separate or ring urban areas.
Rubble - Random
greenbelt
Wastewater Treatment Plant
Grease Trap
4. The pipes - conduits - structures - equipment - and processes required to collect - convey - and treat domestic and industrial wastes - and dispose of the effluent and sludge.
Collection System
Artesian
Estimated Flow
Wastewater Facilities
5. Load applied along or parallel to and concentric with the primary axis
B T U
Axial Load
Acidic
planning
6. A trained builder or installer of landscapes - retained to implement the plans of landscape architects.
Rubble - Ordinary
landscape contractor
site plan
Supersaturated
7. A large pipe to which a series of smaller pipes are connected. Also called a HEADER.
Caisson
grade
Manifold
Adhesion
8. An agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture - primarily responsible for planning and overseeing the use of national forest lands by private - commercial and government users.
Sediment
Forest Service
Trunk Sewer
Select Backfill
9. A professional society that represents landscape architects in the United States and Canada and seeks to better the practice and understanding of landscape architecture through education - research - state registration and other programs.
American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA)
International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA)
Interceptor
Adsorption
10. Branch or lateral sewers that collect wastewater from building sewers and service lines.
Baluster
Mail Line
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Grease Trap
11. A groundwater table that has seasonal changes in depth or elevation.
softscape
cost-benefit analysis
topography
Seasonal Water Table
12. Federal agency responsible for producing and managing many federally-funded public service programs - especially those affecting housing and public spaces.
CADD
Axial Load
topography
Housing and Urban Development - Department of (HUD)
13. A legal means of protecting beautiful views and associated aesthetic quality along a site by restricting change in existing features without government approval.
designed landscape
scenic easement
Day Tank
Adhesion
14. A system used where wastewater collection systems and treatment plants are not available. The system is a settling tank in which settled sludge is in intimate contact with the wastewater flowing through the tank and the organic solids are decomposed
Activated Sludge Process
Manifold
contour
Septic Tank
15. A sewer pipe to which building laterals are connected. Also called a COLLECTION MAIN.
National Park Service (NPS)
Interceptor
Sewer Main
Splash Pad
16. Harmonious use of the land for more than one purpose; not necessarily the combination of uses that will yield the highest economic return - e.g. - a mix of residential and commercial developments in the same area.
multiple use
Storm Water Inlet
Curb inlet
master plan
17. Shoring members placed across a trench to hold other horizontal and vertical shoring members in place.
Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
Cross Braces
landscape architect
easement
18. Installation of pumps to lift wastewater to a higher elevation in places where flat land would require excessively deep sewer trenches. Also used to raise wastewater from areas too low to drain into available collection lines. These stations may be e
Vault
conservation plan
land use
Pump Station
19. A flat board or plate - deflector - guide or similar device constructed or placed in flowing water or slurry systems to cause more uniform flow velocities - to absorb energy - and to divert - guide - or agitate liquids (water - chemical solutions - s
Select Backfill
Secondary Treatment
Baffle
Rubble - Ordinary
20. A groundwater table that is changed by artificial means. Examples of activities that artificially raise the level of a groundwater table include agricultural irrigation - dams and excessive sewer line exfiltration. A groundwater table can be artifici
Artificial Groundwater Table
Interceptor
Aeration
Day Tank
21. Movement of soil from one place to another. Generally accompanies SILTING of a sewer system. Where infiltration is taking place and silt is carried into a sewer system - such silt or soil is removed from the ground around the sewer pipe and the resul
Handhole Trap
Bearing
Soil Displacement
Baluster
22. An authorization issued by a government agency allowing construction of a project according to approved plans and specifications.
building (construction) permit
conservation plan
Select Bedding
zoning
23. Narrowly defined - an extended view or prospect from a site which - many times - is as important as or more important than the site itself.
building (construction) permit
Storm Collection System
Soil Displacement
view
24. The running off of water from a land surface or subsurface - such as through sewers or natural means.
drainage
Seasonal Water Table
Caisson
ecology
25. One or a series of oneinch diameter holes through a manhole lid for purposes of venting dangerous gases found in sewers.
Subsidence
Forest Service
Clear Well
Manhole Vents
26. A branch of biology dealing with the relationship between living things and their environment.
ecology
Rubble - Ordinary
contour
Saturated Soil
27. A system of major sewers serving as transporting lines and not as local or lateral sewers.
Equalizing Basin
Sanitary Sewer
drainage
Trunk System
28. A septic tank or other holding tank which serves as a temporary wastewater storage reservoir for a Septic Tank Effluent Pump (STEP) system. See SEPTIC TANK.
Service Pipe
Secondary Treatment
Interceptor
Water Table
29. A manhole in which the rate of the water entering is greater than the capacity of the outlet under gravity flow conditions. When the water in the manhole rises above the top of the outlet pipe - the manhole is said to be 'surcharged.'
ecology
Surcharge Manhole
Walers
Surcharge
30. Pertaining to groundwater - a well - or underground basin where the water is under a pressure greater than atmospheric and will rise above the level of its upper confining surface if given an opportunity to do so.
building codes
Combined System
Artesian
Compaction Test
31. A break in a lateral pipe somewhere between the sewer main and the building connection.
Main Sewer
Nonpotable
Lateral Break
Subsidence
32. The excess water running off from the surface of a drainage area during and immediately after a period of rain. See STORM RUNOFF.
Storm Water
CADD
Imported Backfill
Wasteline Cleanout
33. A conservation group that maintains a revolving fund for quickly buying land that is in danger of being developed inappropriately or without regard to proper environmental considerations.
Combined Sewer
Service Pipe
land trust
Select Bedding
34. A wall or plate placed in an open channel and used to measure the flow of water. The depth of the flow over the weir can be used to calculate the flow rate - or a chart or conversion table may be used to convert depth to flow. A wall or obstruction u
Weir
environmental inventory
Wastewater Facilities
Impermeable
35. Not easily penetrated. The property of a material or soil that does not allow - or allows only with great difficulty - the movement or passage of water.
Cistern
Admixture
new town
Impermeable
36. 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
planned unit development (PUD)
easement
Selector
Runoff
37. Downward movement of the soil or of a structure which it supports
Wasteline Vent
Shear Wall
Outlet
Settlement
38. 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.
Manifold
Adhesion
Estimated Flow
Acid Rain
39. The gathering of a gas - liquid - or dissolved substance on the surface or interface zone of another material. Advanced Waste Treatment (water) n Any process of water renovation that upgrades treated wastewater to meet specific reuse requirements. Ma
Adsorption
Estimated Flow
Balustrade
Cistern
40. 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.
Walers
Combined System
Water Table
zoning
41. A road laid through a garden or park-like landscape - usually with median and roadside plantings.
Sewage
Storm Water Inlet
parkway
Bearing
42. The force that resists the separation of two bodies in contact.
master plan
Capillary Action
Adhesion
Wastewater Treatment Plant
43. The lay of the land - particularly its slope and drainage patterns; the science of drawing maps and charts or otherwise representing the surface features of a region or site - including its natural and man-made features.
cost-benefit analysis
topography
Pump Station
open space
44. The amount of runoff that reaches the point of measurement within a relatively short period of time after the occurrence of a storm or other form of precipitation. Also called 'direct runoff.'
Storm Runoff
Aquifer
landscape contractor
Two-Way Cleanout
45. The used household water and watercarried solids that flow in sewers to a wastewater treatment plant. The preferred term is WASTEWATER.
Sewage
Seasonal Water Table
Grease Trap
environmental impact
46. The natural elements with which landscape architects work - such as plant materials and the soil itself.
Earth Shift
softscape
scenic easement
Aeration
47. The conversion of large solid particles of sludge into very fine particles which either dissolve or remain suspended in wastewater.
Trunk System
Settlement
Nonpotable
Liquefaction
48. Masonry composed of roughly shaped stones - well bonded and brought at irregular intervals vertically to discontinuous but approximately level beds or courses.
softscape
Balustrade
Rubble - Random
Overflow Manhole
49. A 19th- and 20th-century planned community traditionally featuring careful mixes of housing - open space - commercial activity and recreation. Examples include Reston - Va. - and Columbia - Md. - in the United States - and Harlow and Stevenage in Gre
new town
Walers
Interconnector
Subsidence
50. The illustration and description of problem-statements and large-scale design solutions that affect extensive areas of land; the anticipation of problems that will be encountered as human use and development of land continues.
planning
Select Backfill
Interceptor
Aeration
Can you answer 50 questions in 15 minutes?
Let me suggest you:
Browse all subjects
Browse all tests
Most popular tests
Major Subjects
Tests & Exams
AP
CLEP
DSST
GRE
SAT
GMAT
Certifications
CISSP go to https://www.isc2.org/
PMP
ITIL
RHCE
MCTS
More...
IT Skills
Android Programming
Data Modeling
Objective C Programming
Basic Python Programming
Adobe Illustrator
More...
Business Skills
Advertising Techniques
Business Accounting Basics
Business Strategy
Human Resource Management
Marketing Basics
More...
Soft Skills
Body Language
People Skills
Public Speaking
Persuasion
Job Hunting And Resumes
More...
Vocabulary
GRE Vocab
SAT Vocab
TOEFL Essential Vocab
Basic English Words For All
Global Words You Should Know
Business English
More...
Languages
AP German Vocab
AP Latin Vocab
SAT Subject Test: French
Italian Survival
Norwegian Survival
More...
Engineering
Audio Engineering
Computer Science Engineering
Aerospace Engineering
Chemical Engineering
Structural Engineering
More...
Health Sciences
Basic Nursing Skills
Health Science Language Fundamentals
Veterinary Technology Medical Language
Cardiology
Clinical Surgery
More...
English
Grammar Fundamentals
Literary And Rhetorical Vocab
Elements Of Style Vocab
Introduction To English Major
Complete Advanced Sentences
Literature
Homonyms
More...
Math
Algebra Formulas
Basic Arithmetic: Measurements
Metric Conversions
Geometric Properties
Important Math Facts
Number Sense Vocab
Business Math
More...
Other Major Subjects
Science
Economics
History
Law
Performing-arts
Cooking
Logic & Reasoning
Trivia
Browse all subjects
Browse all tests
Most popular tests