Fieldwork

Question 1

What is our human enquiry?

Answer 1

To investigate the pattern of housing and environmental quality in Reigate.

Question 2

What is our physical geography enquiry?

Answer 2

To investigate the effect of trampling on the abundance and diversity of vegetation at Reigate Heath

Question 3

how many stages are there in a geographical enquiry?

Answer 3

5

Question 4

What are the stages?

Answer 4

Planning, data collection, data presentation, data analysis, conclusion

Question 5

What should you do in the planning stage?

Answer 5

Identify a question, hypothesis and location

Question 6

What should you do in the data collection stage?

Answer 6

Choose data to collect, figure out HOW to collect it, ensure it is collected safely

Question 7

What should you do in the data presentation stage?

Answer 7

Figure out how to display the data and why you choose what you do

Question 8

What should you do in the data analysis stage?

Answer 8

Work out what the data shows (patterns, trends). Identify any anomalies, explain what the data shows

Question 9

What should you do in the conclusion/ evaluation stage?

Answer 9

Figure out the answer to the question and how successful the study was

Question 10

What 3 primary data did we use for PHYSICAL geography?

Answer 10

Quadrat of % cover, species count, height of tallest plant

Question 11

What secondary data did we use for PHYSICAL geography?

Answer 11

Historical data, OS map and a management plan for Reigate Heath

Question 12

What data collection methods did we use for Physical geography?

Answer 12

Systematic sampling, every 2 metres place a quadrat

Question 13

What does quadrat sampling allow?

Answer 13

Study of vegetation over a large space

Question 14

What is a cost benefit of quadrats?

Answer 14

They are inexpensive

Question 15

What is a problem of quadrats?

Answer 15

Only an estimate of vegetation cover as human error has to be taken into account

Question 16

Why did multiple people count vegetation?

Answer 16

It is subjective so we gather a rounded opinion

Question 17

How can you present this Physical geography?

Answer 17

A Kite diagram or proportional circles

Question 18

What are 3 advantages of a kite diagram for physical geography?

Answer 18

-displays change over distance
-easy to interpret
-easy to make comparisons

Question 19

What are 3 DISadvantages of a kite diagram for physical geography?

Answer 19

They are visually subjective –>scale influences effect
Only works with a specific range of data
Time consuming to construct by hand

Question 20

What can you use to plot proportional circles?

Answer 20

arcGIS

Question 21

what is an advantage of using arcGIS for proportional circles?

Answer 21

The data is plotted onto a map to display vegetation coverage

Question 22

What is a disadvantage of proportional circles?

Answer 22

they can blend together and be difficult to read

Question 23

How can we make our enquiry more reliable (time of year)?

Answer 23

Record at different times of the year —> summer will have less vegetation

Question 24

what is a benefit of systematic sampling?

Answer 24

it avoids bias and gives a rounded representation of the area

Question 25

what primary data did we use for HUMAN enquiry?

Answer 25

environmental quality survey, housing quality survey and took pictures

Question 26

what secondary data did we use for HUMAN enquiry?

Answer 26

Census data, zoopla for house prices

Question 27

What technique did we use for our environmental and human enquiry?

Answer 27

Bipolar analysis table, add all numbers at the end in TOTAL HOUSE QUALITY column

Question 28

how does the bipolar analysis work?

Answer 28

better score, better housing quality

Question 29

What can we use to display our human data?

Answer 29

A bar chart

Question 30

Why can we use a bar chart for this?

Answer 30

it is categorical data

Question 31

What is a benefit of bar charts?

Answer 31

Easy to analyse at a glance and see trends

Question 32

what is a disadvantage of a bar chart?

Answer 32

a lack of categories can mask trends in data

Question 33

what categories did we look at for human data?

Answer 33

size of garden, maintenance of outside house, parking space, traffic congestion

Question 34

What is an advantage of a photo?

Answer 34

Quick, cheap, visual

Question 35

What is a disadvantage of a photo?

Answer 35

It can mask deeper socioeconomic issues (overcrowding)

Question 36

What is a disadvantage of human data primary?

Answer 36

It can be subjective

Question 37

What is a disadvantage of bipolar analysis?

Answer 37

It used a small -2 to 2 scale

Question 38

What is an issue of the sample size we used?

Answer 38

It was very small and does not give a rounded view of distance from the CBD

Question 39

How can we improve our human statement with secondary data?

Answer 39

pair it with the census to validate