SUBJECTS
|
BROWSE
|
CAREER CENTER
|
POPULAR
|
JOIN
|
LOGIN
Business Skills
|
Soft Skills
|
Basic Literacy
|
Certifications
About
|
Help
|
Privacy
|
Terms
|
Email
Search
Test your basic knowledge |
Carpentry Roof Framing Vocab
Start Test
Study First
Subjects
:
industries
,
carpentry
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. The length of a stair stringer or rafter per unit of run.
Bird's mouth
Dormer
Pitch
Unit length
2. Term used to indicate the steepness of a roof; stated as unit rise on unit run - e.g. - 6 on 12.
Gable end
Fascia
Valley cripple jack rafter
Slope
3. The horizontal distance covered by a roof.
Total span
Tail cut
Valley cripple jack rafter
Total run
4. The intersection of two roof slopes at interior corners.
Valley
Fascia
Butterfly roof
Dropping the hip
5. The sloping portion of the gable ends of a building.
Hip jack rafter
Soffit
Fascia
Rake
6. The intersection of two roof slopes at interior corners.
Mansard roof
Major span
Unit length
Valley
7. Information found printed on the body of a framing square; used to calculate the lengths of various components of a roof system.
Valley jack rafter
Hip rafter
Gable end
Rafter tables
8. A rafter running between a valley rafter and the ridge.
Unit run
Fascia
Unit length
Valley jack rafter
9. A shortened common rafter that spans from the wall plate to a hip rafter.
Gable end
Slope
Hip jack rafter
Rafter tables
10. Extends diagonally from the corner of the plate to the ridge at the intersection of two surfaces of a hip roof.
Gable roof
Level line
Dormer
Hip rafter
11. A horizontal distance of a stair tread or horizontal segment of the total run of a rafter.
Seat cut
Plumb line
Shortened valley rafter
Unit run
12. A compound miter cut on the end of certain roof rafters.
Level line
Cheek cut
Gable end studs
Cripple jack rafter
13. The roof of irregular shaped buildings; valleys are formed at the intersection of the roofs.
Ridgeboard
Gable end studs
Intersecting roof
Collar tie
14. The amount a stair or rafter rises per unit of run.
Plumb line
Mansard roof
Unit rise
Ridgeboard
15. The width of the larger portion of a building.
Valley rafter
Total run
Major span
Soffit
16. Width of the smaller portion of a building with six or eight corners.
Butterfly roof
Backing the hip
Minor span
Fascia
17. The sloping portion of the gable ends of a building.
Plumb line
Unit length
Common rafter
Rake
18. A type of roof that pitches in two directions.
Gable roof
Total rise
Jack rafter
Seat cut
19. A cut on the rafter that is a combination of a level cut and a plumb cut; also called the bird's mouth.
Dormer
Seat cut
Tail cut
Slope
20. A roof that slopes upward toward the ridge from four directions.
Hip roof
Slope
Mansard roof
Tail cut
21. The length of a rafter along a measuring line without consideration to the width or thickness of the rafter.
Fascia
Line length
Collar tie
Butterfly roof
22. A horizontal member of a roof frame that is placed on edge at the ridge and into which the upper ends of rafters are fastened.
Ridgeboard
Hip rafter
Hip-valley cripple jack rafter
Purlin knee wall
23. The underside trim members of a cornice or any such overhanging assembly.
Gambrel roof
Mansard roof
Rafter tables
Soffit
24. Extends diagonally from the corner of the plate to the ridge at the intersection of two surfaces of a hip roof.
Hip rafter
Lookout
Hip-valley cripple jack rafter
Shortened valley rafter
25. Width of the smaller portion of a building with six or eight corners.
Minor span
Gables
shed roof
Rafter tables
26. A type of roof that has two different pitches on all sides of the building - with the lower slopes steeper than the upper.
Mansard roof
Slope
Dropping the hip
Butterfly roof
27. A horizontal member placed close to the ridge at right angles to the plate.
Rake rafter
Bird's mouth
Purlin knee wall
Collar tie
28. A type of roof that has two slopes of different pitches on each side of center.
Shortened valley rafter
Shortened valley rafter
Total span
Gambrel roof
29. The horizontal distance covered by a roof.
Total span
Total run
Bird's mouth
shed roof
30. The rafter placed at the intersection of two roof slopes in interior corners.
Intersecting roof
Dormer
Purlin knee wall
Valley rafter
31. The length of a rafter along a measuring line without consideration to the width or thickness of the rafter.
Rake
Cripple jack rafter
Line length
Common rafter
32. A rafter that runs from the plate to the ridge of the main roof.
Total run
Mansard roof
Hip roof
Supporting valley rafter
33. Extends from the wall plate to the ridge board - where its run is perpendicular to the plate.
Supporting valley rafter
Common rafter
shed roof
Hip rafter
34. A short rafter running parallel to common rafters - cut between hip and valley rafters.
Unit rise
Valley rafter
Cripple jack rafter
Hip-valley cripple jack rafter
35. An inverted gable roof.
Butterfly roof
Major span
Line length
Slope
36. A type of roof that slopes in one direction only.
Cheek cut
shed roof
Rafter tables
Soffit
37. Increasing the depth of the hip rafter seat cut so that the centerline of its top edge will lie in the plane of adjacent roof surfaces.
Lateral bracing
Dropping the hip
Rake
Dormer
38. The triangular areas formed by the rake rafters and the wall plate at the ends of the building.
Dropping the hip
Hip-valley cripple jack rafter
Gables
Rake
39. A rafter running between a valley rafter and the ridge.
Valley jack rafter
Dormer
Hip-valley cripple jack rafter
Gable roof
40. The triangular-shaped section on the end of a building formed by the rafters in a common or gable roof and the top plate line.
Unit rise
Valley cripple jack rafter
Gable end
Gable roof
41. Part of a common rafter - shortened for framing a hip rafter - a valley rafter - or both.
Jack rafter
Cheek cut
Valley jack rafter
Hip rafter
42. The underside trim members of a cornice or any such overhanging assembly.
Unit rise
Dormer
Total rise
Soffit
43. A notch cut in the underside of a rafter to fit on top of the wall plate.
Warning
: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in
/var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php
on line
183
44. A vertical member of the cornice finish installed on the tail end of rafters.
Gable end
Slope
Major span
Fascia
45. Beveling the top edge of a hip rafter to line it up with adjacent roof surfaces.
Total rise
Common rafter
Minor span
Backing the hip
46. A cut on the rafter that is a combination of a level cut and a plumb cut; also called the bird's mouth.
Lateral bracing
Slope
Valley
Seat cut
47. A cut on the extreme lower end of a rafter.
Gable end
Tail cut
Rake
Bird's mouth
48. The width of the larger portion of a building.
Major span
Dropping the hip
Common rafter
Dropping the hip
49. The vertical distance that the roof rises from plate to ridge.
Total rise
Total span
Hip-valley cripple jack rafter
Hip rafter
50. Beveling the top edge of a hip rafter to line it up with adjacent roof surfaces.
Backing the hip
Rake
Unit length
Unit run