Edexcel GCSE Geography A Paper 3: Geographical Investigations June 2023 question paper 1GA0/03

You have studied a river landscape as part of your geographical investigation.

Name of your fieldwork location

Explain one advantage of a sampling strategy you used in your geographical investigation.

Named sampling strategy

Explain one risk you considered before carrying out the data collection at your chosen location.

Named risk

Explain one way your investigation helped you understand how river processes affect people.

Explain two ways you tried to make sure that your data collection methods were accurate.

Study Figures 1a and 1b in the Resource Booklet.

A group of students investigating a river expected both width and depth to increase downstream.

After analysing Figures 1a and 1b, the students concluded that changes in width were more in line with their expectations.

Assess the extent to which you agree with this conclusion.

You have studied a coastal landscape as part of your geographical investigation.

Name of your fieldwork location

Explain one advantage of a sampling strategy you used in your geographical investigation.

Named sampling strategy

Explain one risk you considered before carrying out the data collection at your chosen location.

Named risk

Explain one way your investigation helped you understand how coastal processes affect people.

Explain two ways you tried to make sure that your data collection methods were accurate.

Study Figures 2a and 2b in the Resource Booklet.

A group of students investigating a coastline expected:

• sediment size to decrease along the beach from west to east

• gradient (slope angle) of the beach to decrease from the cliff to the water’s edge

After analysing Figures 2a and 2b, the students concluded that changes in gradient were more in line with their expectations.

Assess the extent to which you agree with this conclusion.

A group of students collected data to investigate change in a central/inner urban area.

Study Figure 3a in the Resource Booklet.

Identify the two most likely land uses in Figure 3a.

Describe one way the students could have presented their land use data.

Study Figure 3b in the Resource Booklet.

Explain one limitation of using this fieldwork method.

The students used random sampling to select the sites for an environmental quality survey (EQS).

Explain one limitation of using random sampling to collect this data.

Study Figure 3c below. It shows a bar chart created by the students to show the mean results of their EQS.

10 = excellent

Plot the data in the table below by completing Figure 3c.

You have studied a central/inner urban area(s) as part of your geographical investigation.

Evaluate the success of the methods used to collect your fieldwork (primary) and secondary sources of data.

You must refer to your chosen urban fieldwork location in your answer.

Name of your urban fieldwork location

A group of students collected data to investigate change in a rural settlement.

Study Figure 4a in the Resource Booklet.

Identify the two categories of vehicles with the highest total in Figure 4a.

Describe one other way the students could have presented their traffic data.

Study Figure 4b in the Resource Booklet.

Explain one limitation of using this fieldwork method.

The students used random sampling to select people to complete a questionnaire about the environment.

Explain one limitation of using random sampling to collect this data.

Study Figure 4c below. It shows a bar chart created by the students to show the mean results of their questionnaire.

10 = excellent

Plot the data given in the table below by completing Figure 4c.

You have studied a rural settlement(s) as part of your geographical investigation.

Evaluate the success of the methods used to collect your fieldwork (primary) and secondary sources of data.

You must refer to your chosen rural fieldwork location in your answer.

Name of your rural fieldwork location

Study Figure 5a in the Resource Booklet.

Identify the number of migrants born outside the European Union in 2017.

Define the term net migration.

State one way net migration statistics can be unreliable.

Study Figure 5b in the Resource Booklet.

Describe the overall trend in net migration to the UK between 1994 and 2019.

Use data in your answer.

Suggest two reasons for the trend in net migration to the UK between 1994 and 2019.

Reason 1

Reason 2

Explain one way that migration could affect the UK’s population structure.

In this question, up to four additional marks will be awarded for your spelling, punctuation, grammar and your use of specialist terminology.

Use information from the Resource Booklet (Figures 5c to 5g) as well as knowledge and understanding from the rest of your geography course.

Discuss this view.

(Spelling, punctuation, grammar and use of specialist terminology = 4 marks)