WorksheetsRoof Quiz
Total questions: 26
Worksheet time: 13mins
Which type of roof shape uses a knee wall as part of its structural frame?
Shed roof
Gable roof
Gambrel roof
Hip roof
The term for a material installed over a roof membrane to prevent wind uplift and shield the membrane from sunlight.
Ballast
Topping
Batten
Coping
Which among the following trusses has no vertical web?
Belgian truss
Howe truss
King truss
Pratt truss
Where a rafter is provided with eaves, what will be the cut at the underside of the rafter to bear on the top of the wall below it?
Cheek cut
Seat cut
Bird's mouth
Top cut
The roof member that supports the rake overhang.
Soffit
Jack
Lookout
Spandrel
When a gable or hip roof is not provided with a ceiling joist, what alternative structural element is provided to maintain stability for the rafters?
King post
Knee wall
Ridge beam
Collar beam
A structure protruding through the plane of a sloping roof usually containing a window & having its own smaller roof.
Attic
Bay
Dormer
Lookout
A vertical pipe for conducting water from a roof to a lower level.
Downspout
Gutter
Riser
Scupper
The exposed vertical face of an eave.
Fascia
Gutter
Header
Stringer
A rafter in a rake overhang.
Cripple
Lookout
Jack rafter
Fly rafter
A roof consisting of two oppositely sloping planes that intersect at a level ridge.
Gable roof
Hip roof
Gambrel roof
Mansard roof
A membrane roof assembly in which the thermal insulation lies above the membrane.
Inverted roof
Interstitial ceiling
Roof sheathing
Underlayment
A shortened rafter that joins a hip or valley rafter.
Jack rafter
Fly rafter
Cripple
Lookout
A short wall under the slope of a roof.
Collar
Bird's mouth
Knee wall
Parapet
The sloping edge of a steep roof.
Eave
Rake
Soffit
Shed
The horizontal edge at the low side of a sloping roof.
Soffit
Rake
Gutter
Eave
The underside of a horizontal element of a building, especially the underside of a roof overhang.
Soffit
Rake
Gutter
Eave
Roofing tile having S-shaped cross section laid so the downturn of one overlaps the upturn of the next in same course.
Mission tile
Pantile
Spanish tile
Arris tile
Which of the following insulating materials for low-slope (flat) roofs is fire resistant and therefore compatible with hot bitumens (asphalt)?
Polystyrene foam board
Polyisocyanurate foam board
Polyurethane foam board
Perlitic board
A trough formed by the intersection of two roof slopes.
Gutter
Hip
Ridge
Valley
Which kind of roof is most appropriate for using shingles?
Gable roof
Flat roof
Steep roof
Shed roof
A roof membrane laminated from layers of asphalt-saturated felt or other fabric, bonded together with bitumen.
Built-up roof
Flat roof
Inverted roof
Fluid-applied roof
A strip of material with a sloping face used to ease the transition from a horizontal to a vertical surface at the edge of a membrane roof.
Coping
Cant strip
Wood curb
End flashing
Which of the following is not a roof membrane?
Coping
Flashing
BUR
Roofing sheet
Shingles
What is the primary purpose of roofing?
To protect from water and external physical elements.
To protect from thermal gain.
To protect from moisture or water vapor.
To protect from air infiltration.
Any of the above
Which of the following wood roof systems has ceilings customarily left exposed?
Double roof
Plank and beam roof
Rafter roof system
Trussed rafter roof
Truss roof
