Collecting fieldwork data

For a human geography fieldwork investigation which you have completed. Justify one technique you used to present your data.

Some geography students were conducting a fieldwork investigation into the impact on the high street of an out-of-town shopping centre. They visited the high street on a Wednesday morning to collect their data.

Look at Fig. 6a in the Resource Booklet.

Suggest two ways in which they could use the photograph as part of their investigation.

Look at Fig. 6b in the Resource Booklet.

What is the total environmental quality score?

A –2

B 1

C 2

D 3

Write the correct letter in the box.

Suggest a different fieldwork technique which could have been used by the students and explain why it would be useful.

* Evaluate the fieldwork techniques used by the students and suggest how they could be improved.

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Look at Fig. 4 in the Resource Booklet. Geography students have undertaken a fieldwork investigation.

What are two other investigative steps in the geography fieldwork process that the students could do?

For a physical geography fieldwork investigation which you have completed, explain one way you could have improved the data presentation.

Geography students have carried out fieldwork to investigate how the depth of a river channel changes as you travel downstream.

Complete the graph using the data below.

How deep is the river 50 cm across the river channel?

A 12 cm

B 14 cm

C 16 cm

D 18 cm

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Look at Fig. 4 in the Resource Booklet.

* Suggest how the students could improve their data collection to make their results more accurate and reliable.

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Geography students were carrying out fieldwork in their local area to investigate footfall.

They were collecting data to compare how busy the area was at different times on Fridays. The students completed a tally chart of the number of people walking past in a 5 minute slot.

Look at Fig. 5 in the Resource Booklet.

The students presented their results as a flow line map. Suggest two things that the students could add to improve the flow line map.

Explain one way that the students could improve the reliability of their data.

Which method would provide useful data for their investigation?

A Carrying out traffic counts

B Completing a questionnaire about what people like about the area

C Finding out house prices

D Recording the type of products being sold in the shops

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Explain the effectiveness of one way you have presented your fieldwork for a human geography fieldwork investigation you have completed.

You will have carried out human geography fieldwork as part of your Geography course.

(d*) To what extent were the methods you used to collect your data effective?

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GCSE Geography students were carrying out fieldwork in their local area to investigate the environmental impacts of a new housing estate that is being built.

Look at Fig. 5 in the Resource Booklet, which shows a sketch map of a study site that one of the students drew.

Suggest two things that they could add to improve the sketch map.

Which is the most appropriate type of primary data collection to investigate the environmental impact of a new housing estate?

A House price survey

B Pie chart

C Stream flow measurement

D Traffic count

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Explain why your answer in 5aii) would be a suitable method of data collection.

You have completed human geography fieldwork.

Describe the effectiveness of one presentation technique you have used to display your results.

* You will have carried out human geography fieldwork as part of your Geography course.

Evaluate whether your primary data collection was successful in allowing you to draw evidenced conclusions.

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Design a data sheet below which they could use to record this information.

Select the most appropriate way of displaying the data which they have collected.

A Bar chart

B Line graph

C Pie chart

D Radial graph

Write the correct letter in the box.

Why is this an appropriate way of displaying the data collected?

Explain one factor that students would need to consider when selecting the appropriate sites at which to carry out their data collection.

Some GCSE geography students are carrying out an enquiry to investigate the impact of building a new housing development on the edge of a town. Here is part of the questionnaire which they used.

Suggest two other questions that the students could ask in their questionnaire.

Draw an appropriate graph to display the data gained about what developers should focus on for the new housing development.

Explain one recommendation for what the developers could include in the housing development based on the results of the graph drawn in question 5(a)(ii).

Study Fig. 7 in the separate Resource Booklet, a photograph showing part of the River Lune.

Write one annotation that could be added to the photograph to describe the fieldwork site.

As part of a fieldwork investigation, students were investigating how sediment size changes. The table below shows some of the data which they collected.

Suggest how students could have collected this data.

You will have carried out some physical geography fieldwork as part of your GCSE (9–1) Geography course.

Justify one technique which you used when presenting your data in your physical geography fieldwork investigation.

Data presentation technique:........

* To what extent did your physical geography fieldwork conclusions support ideas studied in class?

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State three parts of the enquiry process for geography fieldwork.

Some students were planning their human geography fieldwork. They decided to investigate the impact of internet shopping on city centres.

Suggest one data collection technique which they could use and explain why this would be appropriate.

Study Fig. 4 in the separate Resource Booklet, which is a bar graph displaying results from a survey looking at how the number and type of shops in a city centre has changed.

Suggest what Fig. 4 indicates about the impact of internet shopping on city centres.

* You will have carried out some human geography fieldwork as part of your GCSE (9–1) Geography course.

Examine the effectiveness of your data presentation techniques.

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A class wants to find out about the popularity of supermarket fairly traded goods. Name one primary data collection technique they could use to do this.

Suggest one limitation of collecting primary data using this method.

As part of their secondary data collection, students obtained data about sales of fairly traded products. Complete the graph below by plotting the data for coffee sales.

Study Fig. 6 in the Resource Booklet, showing the growth in fairly traded products in the UK.

Make two observations about the data on the graph.

For a human geography fieldwork investigation you have completed, justify one technique you used to collect your data.

(e*) You will have carried out human geography fieldwork as part of your GCSE (9–1) Geography course.

Name the fieldwork:........

To what extent was your fieldwork data useful in helping you to answer your overall question for investigation?

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Study the table below, which shows the results of an investigation into longshore drift.

Using data from the table, describe the pattern in the longshore drift data collected.

Study Fig. 4 in the separate Resource Booklet, students’ data presentation from physical geography fieldwork data.

A student has used GIS to present their findings on changes in beach sediment size.

Suggest what Fig. 4 indicates about the pattern of beach sediment size along the shore.

State one way you could adapt Fig. 4 to make it more informative.

* You will have carried out some physical geography fieldwork as part of your GCSE Geography course.

Name the fieldwork........

To what extent was your primary data collection successful?

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Study Fig. 6 in the separate Resource Booklet, a photograph showing traffic congestion in the city of Norwich.

State two ways this photograph could be used in a human geography investigation.

As part of a students’ fieldwork investigation, they counted the number of cyclists approaching a main road into Norwich. The results are shown in the table below.

Calculate the lower quartile value of the dataset. You must show your working out.

For a human geography fieldwork investigation which you have completed, justify technique you used to present your data.

(d*) Figs 7a, 7b and 7c in the separate Resource Booklet show information on population and transport issues in the city of Norwich.

Using evidence from Figs 6, 7a, 7b and 7c, write a conclusion to the hypothesis: ‘Transport provision in Norwich is causing problems now and will do so in the future’. Develop your answer.

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