Guidance and Navigation MCQs
Guidance and Navigation MCQs
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1: What is the true depth of the water as opposed to a predicted depth?
A. Actual depth
B. Predicted depth
C. Deeper than predicted
D. Depth of the bottom of the ocean
2: What is an actual depth?
A. The true depth of water
B. The distance from the water's surface to the bottom
C. The height of an object above sea level
3: What does an almanac include?
A. A list of birds
B. Tide Tables astronomical ephemerals etc
C. A calendar of events
D. A catalog of plants
E. Weather predictions
4: What is the distance that a celestial body is above the viewers horizon?
A. Altitude
B. Magnitude
C. Distance
D. Horizon
5: What is the measure of altitude?
A. The length of an ideal, unbroken chord connecting the two points on the horizon
B. The height of a mountain
C. The distance between the Earth and the sun
D. The angular distance of a celestial body above the viewers horizon
E. The elevation of a point above sea level
6: Anabatic winds are caused by what?
A. The Earth's rotation
B. A cold air mass moving over a warm one
C. Warm air rising up a slope
D. A gust of wind
E. A warm air mass moving over a cold one
7: What will most likely be modified by the wind created by the vessels movement?
A. The direction of the wind
B. The wind as felt on board
C. The wind speed
D. The wind direction
E. The speed of the vessels
8: What would modify an actual wind?
A. A wind created by a bird
B. The wind created by the sail
C. A fan
D. The wind created by the vessels movement
E. A wind created by a fan
9: What is the wind felt on board of a ship?
A. Local wind
B. Wind gust
C. Apparent wind
D. True wind
10: What is the name of an instrument used to measure atmospheric pressure?
A. Thermometer
B. Barometer
C. Ultrasonic wave instrument
D. Anemometer
11: What is an example of a barometer?
A. A thermometer
B. A device used to measure the humidity in the air
C. An instrument for measuring atmospheric pressure
D. A tool for measuring the amount of sugar in a liquid
12: What is the rate of atmospheric pressure rise or fall?
A. Humidity
B. Average Annual Temperature
C. Barometric Gradient
D. Temperature
E. Irradiance
13: What is the Barometric Gradient?
A. A measure of atmospheric pressure
B. The rate at which air flows over a mountain
C. The rate at which atmospheric pressure rises of falls
D. The rate at which atmospheric pressure rises
E. The rate at which atmospheric pressure falls of rises
14: What is a beacon used for?
A. A waypoint
B. A warning signal
C. An unlit navigation mark
D. A source of beacons to help pilots
E. A locating device
15: What does the term bearing mean?
A. Facing in the direction you are traveling
B. To hold (something) up
C. The compass reading taken of a object
D. To put (something) on your shoulder
E. Carrying something
16: What numerical method of describing wind strength are we talking about?
A. Beaufort Scale
B. Kilometers per hour
C. Beaufort Wind Scale
D. Modified Beaufort Scale
E. Gusts
17: What type of scale does the Beaufort Scale represent?
A. Psychometric
B. Numerical
C. Visual
D. Varies with location
E. Linear
18: What is a cape?
A. A piece of land that that projects out into a large body of water
B. A garment that is worn by men to protect them from the elements
C. A type of dress that is worn over a suit
D. A type of dress that is made out of cloth and has a hood
E. A tool used for fishing
19: What does a cape project out into?
A. A large body of water
B. The sky
C. Static electricity
D. Air
20: What are cardinal marks indicating the direction of safe water?
A. Rocks
B. A lighthouse
C. Portholes
D. Buoyage marks
E. Sterns
21: What type of marks indicate the direction of safe water?
A. V-Shaped Marks
B. Red Crosses
C. Cardinal Marks
D. Y-marks
E. Arrows
22: How many main points of the compass are there?
A. Four
B. Six
C. Nine
D. Eight
E. Twelve
23: What are the four main points of the compass?
A. Above, below, front and back
B. Up, Down, Left and Right
C. North, East, South and West
24: What do maps help to study and to construct?
A. Geography
B. Planning
C. Urban planning
D. Cartography
E. Surveying
25: What are the main purposes of Cartography?
A. Identification of geographical features
B. Reporting changes in land use
C. The study and the construction of maps
D. Planning and directing military campaigns
E. Recording physical and human geography
26: The ship to steer has been corrected for what?
A. North Star, South Star, and Polaris
B. Solar wind, lunarcurrent, and aurora
C. Current, variation, and deviation
D. Wind, tide, and current
E. Magnetic field, solar wind, lunar current, and geomagnetic storm
27: What is the name of the course that tells you which way to go?
A. Magnetic Course
B. Compass Course
C. True North Course
D. Sat Nav Course
28: What term best describes determining a position by plotting courses and speeds from a known position?
A. Reckoning
B. Determining
C. Course plotting
D. Navigational
E. Plotting
29: What is the angular distance to a point on the celestial sphere measured north and south from the celestial equator along the hour circle?
A. Distance from the sun
B. Declination
C. Declination + Right Ascension
D. Right Ascension
30: What is the measurement of Declination?
A. The angle between a celestial coordinate plane and the horizon
B. The angular distance from the sun
C. The angular distance from the north celestial pole
D. The angle between a celestial coordinate axis and the horizon
E. The angular distance to a point on the celestial sphere
31: What caused the compass errors on board the vessel?
A. Magnetic compass
B. The oil slick
C. Wobble in the ship's hull
D. A broken wire
E. Metallic o magnetic objects
32: What causes the compass errors?
A. Metallic o magnetic objects on board the vessel
B. Magnetic declination
C. Magnetic fields from other vessels
D. Variation in the Earth's magnetic field
E. The vessel's motion
33: Correction to be applied to what?
A. Star catalogs
B. Ship's log
C. Ship's course
D. Lunar tables
E. Sextant attitudes
34: For what correction should an altitudes of an eye be compensated?
A. Centimeters
B. Refractive error
C. Dip
D. Intraocular lens
E. Inches
35: The Doldrums is located in which belt of very still air?
A. North Atlantic Oscillation
B. North Pacific Anomaly
C. Inter-tropical Convergence Zone
D. South Atlantic Anomaly
E. Southern Ocean
36: The Doldrums is an area of very still air, between what two numbers are referenced in the Inter-tropical Convergence Zone?
A. 5 degrees north and 5 degrees south
B. 10 degrees north and 10 degrees south
C. 25 degrees north and 25 degrees south
37: What are the doldrums?
A. A low point in the ocean
B. A long, narrow stretch of water
C. The Inter-tropical Convergence Zone
D. The Gulf Stream
E. The North Atlantic Oscillation
38: What are electronic logs used for?
A. Recording the activities of crew members on a daily basis
B. Recording the events of a journey
C. Recording the cargo and passengers on a ship
D. Reporting the voyage
E. Standardising the keeping of logs digitally
39: What is a method of standardizing the keeping of logs digitally?
A. Use of computer software to create logs
B. Manual logs
C. Photos of the vessel's surroundings
D. Electronic logs or E log books
40: What are the two different chart types?
A. Pie charts and Venn diagrams
B. Pie charts and Compound pie charts
C. Vector charts and Raster marine charts
D. Area charts and histograms
41: Electronic charts are either called what or what?
A. Bar charts
B. Graphs
C. Vector charts
D. Pie charts
42: What is the PP; Estimated Position, the DR plus the effects of current?
A. DR+EP
B. P-DR
C. DR
D. EP
43: The DR is called what in the Northern Hemisphere?
A. Magnetic North
B. Direction
C. True North
D. Estimated Position
E. Drift
44: What is the name given to a published collection of tables giving coordinates for astronomical bodies for specific times?
A. Nautical Almanac
B. Ephemerals
C. Nomenclature
D. Sky Atlas
E. Catalog
45: What are ephemerals?
A. A type of fish
B. A published collection of tables giving coordinates for astronomical bodies for specific times
C. A mineral that is not persistent in the earth's crust
D. A plant whose stem, leaves, and flowers wilt and die after flowering
E. A mineral
46: What term describes the DR position that has been adjusted to allow for Set and Drift?
A. Estimated Position
B. Stationary Position
C. Estimated Time
D. Absolute Position
E. Observed Position
47: What is one fathom equal to in modern measurement?
A. 3 feet or 0.9 meters
B. 3 feet or 1 meter
C. 6 feet or 1.8 meters
D. 1 foot or 0.3 meters
48: A fathom is about how many feet long?
A. 12
B. 6
C. 18
D. 10
49: What is the name of the point on the celestial sphere which is used as a reference point?
A. North Star
B. True North
C. Second Point of Aries
D. Zenith
E. First Point of Aries
50: What is the name of the first point of Aries?
A. The zodiac sign Aries
B. The sun
C. The Vernal Equinox
D. The North Pole
E. A point on the celestial sphere
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