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