Presenting fieldwork data

A student wanted to investigate the pattern of house prices in their local town.

To complete the enquiry, the student collected information from estate agents about the price of three-bedroom houses in seven different areas (A – G).

Study Figure 4, a map showing the results of the house price survey.

Complete Figure 4 using the following data.

Suggest what the map shows about the pattern of house prices in the town.

Suggest two ways that the house price survey could be adapted to make it more useful.

A group of students wanted to investigate variations in temperature in their local area.

To do this, each student measured the temperature in a different place at the same time on one day in the month of June.

Study Figure 5, an isoline map showing the results of the temperature survey.

Complete the isoline map for 16 °C on Figure 5.

Describe the pattern shown by the isoline map (Figure 5).

Which of the following would be an appropriate alternative way of presenting the data shown on Figure 5 ?

Shade one circle only.

A Desire line map

B Dot map

C Flow line map

D Proportional symbol map

A student wanted to investigate tourism in their local coastal town by testing the hypothesis that, ‘The further visitors travelled the longer they stayed.’

For one part of the enquiry, the student asked twenty visitors how far they had travelled and how long they were staying in the town.

Study Figure 6, a scattergraph showing the results from this part of the enquiry.

Complete Figure 6 by adding the following data.

To what extent does the data shown in Figure 6 prove the original hypothesis, ‘The further visitors travelled the longer they stayed’?

The student decided to write a questionnaire in order to collect additional information about visitors to the coastal town.

Suggest and justify one question that the student might use in their questionnaire.

Write the title of your human geography fieldwork enquiry.

Suggest one reason why the chosen location was suitable for data collection in your human geography enquiry.

Write the title of your physical geography fieldwork enquiry.

Justify one primary data collection method used in your physical geography enquiry.

Assess the effectiveness of your data presentation technique(s) in your physical geography enquiry.

For one of your fieldwork enquiries, to what extent did the data collected help you to obtain accurate results and reach a valid conclusion(s)?

A student wanted to investigate the impact of tourism on their local town.

Study Figure 4, which shows the results of the student’s primary data collection.

Which of the following methods would be an appropriate way of presenting the land use survey data?

Shade one circle only.

A Line graph

B Scattergraph

C Pie chart

D Histogram

What was the total environmental quality score?

Using the data from Figure 4, state two conclusions that the student might draw about the impact of tourism.

Suggest two ways that the primary data collection methods could be adapted to give more reliable data.

As part of a physical geography enquiry a group of students wanted to test the hypothesis that ‘a local beach gets wider from west to east’.

The students measured the width of the beach to the nearest metre at equal points between two groynes (wooden barriers).

Study Figure 5, a diagram showing the results of the students’ beach survey.

Figure 5

Use Figure 5 to complete the following table, which was used to analyse the students’ data.

Which of the four measures shown in Question 04.5 do you feel is most useful for this enquiry?

Give one reason for your choice.

Suggest a conclusion that the students might draw in relation to the original hypothesis.

A group of students wanted to compare the residential quality of different areas within a town.

Each area was visited and judged in five categories using a scale of 1–10.

The results are shown in Figure 6.

Which area shown in Figure 6 has the highest residential quality?

Use the data in Figure 6 to justify your decision.

A group of students wanted to investigate if the quality of footpaths varied in a National Park. Students asked 50 people their opinions on the quality of three footpaths (A, B and C).

Study Figure 4, a table showing the results of their survey.

Complete the graph below (Figure 5) to show the quality of footpath data for Footpath C.

What percentage of visitors thought the quality of Footpath C was very good?

Outline the conclusions that the students could make from the data (Figure 4).

Suggest another appropriate method the students could use to present the footpath quality data.

A student wanted to investigate how far people travelled to an out-of-town shopping centre and how long they stayed there. The student visited the shopping centre and used a questionnaire to collect data from 20 people.

Figure 6 shows the questionnaire used by the student.

Suggest two ways the questionnaire shown in Figure 6 could be improved to make it more useful.

Figure 7 is a pictogram showing the results for Question 4 in the questionnaire (Figure 6).

Complete Figure 7 by adding the following information.

Suggest reasons for the pattern shown on Figure 8.

A group of students wanted to carry out an investigation into the decline of the high street. They counted the number of charity shops in three town centres (A, B and C).

Figure 9 shows the results of the survey in Town centre A.

Figure 9

Complete the table below (Figure 10) for town centre A.

Using Figure 10, compare the proportion of charity shops between the three town centres.

Study Figure 4, a table showing information collected by students about housing development in four areas on the edge of a town.

Complete the table (Figure 4) by filling in the data for Area B and Area D.

Study Figure 5, showing information from a survey of 100 people in a coastal area.

Complete the pie chart below to show the information for Figure 5.

Study Figure 6, part of a student’s planning sheet in a fieldwork enquiry.

Figure 6

Name the type of sampling method used in Figure 6.

Shade one circle only.

A Opportunity sampling, selecting points which are easiest to access

B Random sampling, based on chance

C Stratified sampling, where more points are chosen from one area

D Systematic sampling where points are chosen at regular intervals

Suggest why the type of sampling shown in Figure 6 is not always possible in a fieldwork enquiry.

Study Figures 7a and 7b, part of a contour map and a cross section used in a river enquiry.

Complete the cross-section from X–Y on Figure 7b.

Describe the slope of the land from point X to the river.

Study Figure 8, information about a questionnaire survey.

Figure 8

A group of students used a questionnaire to assess whether local facilities for the older population were good enough.

In this area 48% of the population are over 50 years old. Females account for 56% of this age group.

The students completed the questionnaire in the town centre on a Saturday morning.

The following diagram shows the age groups of people who were asked to complete the questionnaire.

Suggest two ways that students might adapt their method in order to obtain more appropriate data.

Suggest two additional data collection techniques that the students could use to find out if local facilities are good enough for the older population.

Study Figure 9, a housing quality survey from twelve different areas of a town.

Assess the usefulness of measures of central tendency, such as median, mean and mode, in analysing the housing quality data collected by the students.