Elementary surveying and map making questions | form three Geography

(a) Name the three (3) types of topographical surveying.
(b) What is the importance of chain survey?

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(a) What is the meaning of survey to a geographer?
(b) Differentiate chain survey from levelling using the knowledge you have acquired from survey.
(c) Explain four (4) ways in which chain survey is significant in the day to day life of a human being.

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(a) Mary is a good cartographer, she intends to produce a contoured map of Dar es Salaam. What type of survey method would you advise her to apply?
(b) Apart from producing contour maps, what is the other significance of the type of survey you have mentioned in (a) above?

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The following are instruments used in chain and tape survey:
A Barometer, pegs, notebook, compass
B Tape measure, chain, cross staff, anemometer
C Chain, arrows, ranging poles, altimeter
D Arrows, ranging poles, pegs, chain
E Cross staff, notebook, chain and plane table.

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Form three students at Nguvumali secondary school would like to conduct a simple chain survey around their school compound and measure the height of the big gully near the headmaster’s office. Describe the significance of survey in Tanzania.

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