Session 4: Construction Equipment Vehicles
Unit 2: Various Types of Automobiles
Textual Question-Answers
Check Your Progress
A. Fill in the blanks
1. A road roller is a ………………… type engineering vehicle used tocompact soil, gravel, ……………… or asphalt in the ……………………….ofroads and foundations.
Ans: heavy, concrete, construction
2. Dumper is a vehicle designed for carrying ……………………
Ans: bulk materials
3. Dumper is a ………………… vehicle.
Ans: construction
4. An excavator is used for ………………….
Ans: digging
5. Modern dumpers have payloads of up to …………………..
Ans: 400 tonnes
B. Multiple choice questions
1. Bulldozer is known as …………………..
(a) crawler
(b) bunker
(c) road roller
(d) CB
Ans: (a) crawler
2. Dumpers are also known as ………………..
(a) heavy equipment
(b) tippers
(c) passenger vehicle
(d) carts
Ans: (b) tippers
3. Which of these is not construction equipment?
(a) Dumpers
(b) Dozers
(c) Jeep
(d) Road rollers
Ans: (c) Jeep
4. Road roller is used for …………………….
(a) lifting the soil
(b) levelling the road
(c) carrying bulk material
(d) None of the above
Ans: (b) levelling the road
C. Short answer questions
1. List the different types of construction equipment vehicles.
Ans: Different types of construction equipment vehicles are bulldozers, dumpers, road rollers, excavators, loaders, and cranes.
2. Differentiate between road roller and dumper.
Ans: A road roller is used to compact and level soil, gravel, or asphalt during road construction, whereas a dumper is used to carry and transport bulk materials such as sand, soil, and stones at construction sites
