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