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