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Plumbing Vocab
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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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. What is the pipe fitting that has a removable plug and cleands a pipe run?
green
Clean out plug
Municipal Water System
Ballcock valve
2. The portion of a water supply line which is usually under the customer's ground and conveys water from the main is called?
Horizontal supply pipes
soil pipe
Flux
Waste pipe
3. What acid like substance is used as an etch to clean the surface of copper during the process of Soldering?
Tank and Bowl
Flapper Valve
Flux
Face to Face
4. What is a system that cleans water and is pumped to homes and buildings?
Waste pipe
Main Service Pipe
Water Supply System
Municipal Water System
5. When heating copper pipe to solder a joint - what color will the flame turn to indicate a proper temperture has been reached to start melting the solder?
Vent pipe
green
65 psi
Propane
6. When heating copper pipe to solder a joint - what color will the flame turn to indicate a proper temperture has been reached to start melting the solder?
green
Face to Face
Flock
Propane
7. What is a pipe that connects from the public water to a building called?
Cross Connection
Ball or Gate valves
Main Service Pipe
Waste pipe
8. When measuring pipe fittings what is the distance from one fitting that is directly in line with another fitting called?
Sanding Screen
Face to Face
Main Shutoff Valve
Flock
9. What is part of the drainage system that carries off solid waste from a plumbing fixture - especially from a toilet?
Reservoirs
soil pipe
Sanding Screen
Municipal Water System
10. Where does a household that is not connected to public or municipal draw it's potable water from?
Horizontal supply pipes
Air Chamber
Carbon granules
Private water system
11. What is A physical link between safe water and dirty water - which can come from drains - sewers or other wastewater sources?
Ball or Gate valves
soil pipe
Clean out plug
Cross Connection
12. What are two types of valves used to shut off the water supply to a plumbing system? .
Air Chamber
Ball or Gate valves
Clean out plug
Main Shutoff Valve
13. What is the area inside a pipe fitting that accepts the end of a pipe called?
Flange
Ballcock valve
Cross Connection
green
14. What is part of the drainage system that carries off solid waste from a plumbing fixture - especially from a toilet?
Syphonic and Induction
Water Supply System
soil pipe
Flock
15. Diring the 'Clarification' phase of water treatment what is the material that is formed at the top of the of the clarifying vat called?
Flange
Water Supply System
Sludge Blanket
Sewer gases
16. What is the name of the gas in the torch that was used to heat the copper pipes during the solddering process?
Propane
Water Supply System
Gravity
Chlorine
17. During the 'filtration' phase of water treatment water material is the water allowed to seep through?
soil pipe
Sludge Blanket
Carbon granules
Gravity
18. Where does a household that is not connected to public or municipal draw it's potable water from?
Equalize air pressure
Clean out plug
Gravity
Private water system
19. What is the term use to describe a balanced air flow that allows easy water flow within a plumbing system?
Main Shutoff Valve
Flux
Equalize air pressure
Cross Connection
20. What was the name of the material used to sand or clean the ends of the copper pipes and fittings before the soldering process?
Sanding Screen
Syphonic and Induction
Flange
Propane
21. What was the name of the material used to sand or clean the ends of the copper pipes and fittings before the soldering process?
Drain-Waste-Vent (DWV)
Sanding Screen
Face to Face
green
22. What is the container in a hydraulic system in which air or some other gas is compressed to regulate the flow of a liquid?
Air Chamber
Sanding Screen
Sewer gases
Sanding Screen
23. What is the device located inside the toilet tank that starts and stops the flow of water?
Syphonic and Induction
Equalize air pressure
Ballcock valve
Air Chamber
24. What are the two forces that cause the bowl of a modern toilet to empty it's contents?
Equalize air pressure
Syphonic and Induction
Face to Face
Flock
25. How many pounds-per-square-inch (psi) is the water in a normal residential plumbing system?
Sludge Blanket
Flapper Valve
Sewer gases
65 psi
26. What is the pipe which connects directly with an individual waste pipe underneath or behind the fixture and extends to either the main - or branch vent pipe?
Flux
Main Shutoff Valve
Drain-Waste-Vent (DWV)
Revent pipe
27. What is A physical link between safe water and dirty water - which can come from drains - sewers or other wastewater sources?
Carbon granules
Trap
Cross Connection
Main Shutoff Valve
28. Diring the 'Clarification' phase of water treatment what is the material that is formed at the top of the of the clarifying vat called?
Clean out plug
Drain-Waste-Vent (DWV)
Sludge Blanket
Flange
29. Where do large cities get their drinking water from?
Main Service Pipe
Horizontal supply pipes
Reservoirs
Sludge Blanket
30. The portion of a water supply line which is usually under the customer's ground and conveys water from the main is called?
Horizontal supply pipes
Propane
Municipal Water System
Revent pipe
31. What are the two main components of a modern toilet?
Propane
Tank and Bowl
65 psi
Reservoirs
32. In modern plumbing - what is the system that removes greywater aka wastewater from a building and regulates air pressure?
Sewer gases
Revent pipe
Drain-Waste-Vent (DWV)
Reservoirs
33. The pipe that stops sewer gases from entering the home plumbing system is called?
Sludge Blanket
Trap
Tank and Bowl
Sanding Screen
34. During the 'filtration' phase of water treatment water material is the water allowed to seep through?
Sanding Screen
soil pipe
Gravity
Carbon granules
35. In modern plumbing - what is the system that removes greywater aka wastewater from a building and regulates air pressure?
Municipal Water System
Drain-Waste-Vent (DWV)
Sanding Screen
Sludge Blanket
36. During the final steps of the 'Filtration' phase of water purification what chemical is added to the water in order to kill any harmful bacteria?
Horizontal supply pipes
Flock
Chlorine
soil pipe
37. What is the device at the bottom of a modern toilet tank that allows and stops the flow of water into the bowl?
Municipal Water System
Gravity
Drain-Waste-Vent (DWV)
Flapper Valve
38. What is a system that cleans water and is pumped to homes and buildings?
Chlorine
Sewer gases
Ballcock valve
Water Supply System
39. What is a network of pipes - pumps - and storage and treatment facilities designed to deliver drinking water to homes - schools - businesses - and other users in a city or town?
Private water system
Municipal Water System
Drain-Waste-Vent (DWV)
Revent pipe
40. What is the container in a hydraulic system in which air or some other gas is compressed to regulate the flow of a liquid?
Syphonic and Induction
Air Chamber
Main Service Pipe
Tank and Bowl
41. What are two types of valves used to shut off the water supply to a plumbing system? .
Ball or Gate valves
Gravity
Face to Face
Trap
42. What pipe that rises out of the roof of a house regulates air pressure in the waste system pipes facilitating flow?
Ballcock valve
Vent pipe
Water Supply System
Flapper Valve
43. What is a pipe that connects from the public water to a building called?
Ball or Gate valves
Equalize air pressure
Tank and Bowl
Main Service Pipe
44. What is a network of pipes - pumps - and storage and treatment facilities designed to deliver drinking water to homes - schools - businesses - and other users in a city or town?
Drain-Waste-Vent (DWV)
Main Service Pipe
Municipal Water System
Revent pipe
45. What acid like substance is used as an etch to clean the surface of copper during the process of Soldering?
Flux
Syphonic and Induction
Ballcock valve
Private water system
46. During the final steps of the 'Filtration' phase of water purification what chemical is added to the water in order to kill any harmful bacteria?
Chlorine
Equalize air pressure
Sanding Screen
Ball or Gate valves
47. What is the natural force that starts the flush cycle of a modern toilet?
Gravity
Flapper Valve
Sanding Screen
Flux
48. When measuring pipe fittings what is the distance from one fitting that is directly in line with another fitting called?
Waste pipe
Flock
Face to Face
Flux
49. What are the two main components of a modern toilet?
Private water system
Cross Connection
Main Shutoff Valve
Tank and Bowl
50. During the 'Clarification ' phase of water treatment what is the material that is coagulated by adding aluminum sulfate to the water called?
Flock
Syphonic and Induction
Waste pipe
soil pipe