Cley Hill

Question 1

What was the title of the investigation?

Answer 1

Investigation into the effect of relief on microclimate, Cley Hill, Warminster

Question 2

What were the two hypotheses?

Answer 2

As altitude increases, temperature decreases

As altitudes increases, wind speed increases

Question 3

What does SMART stand for?

Answer 3

Simples
Measurable
Achievable
Realistic
Timed

Question 4

What kit did we use to measure Altitude?

Answer 4

Altimeter

Question 5

What is the problem with altimeters?

Answer 5

Slow to update

Question 6

How did we solve the slowness of the altimeters?

Answer 6

Teachers went ahead of the group

Question 7

How did we measure exposure?

Answer 7

Clinometer and compass

Question 8

What were our problems with clinometers?

Answer 8

The horizon was blocked by foliage and people struggled to find North

Question 9

How did we measure slope angles?

Answer 9

Using clinometers

Question 10

What was the issue with clinometers?

Answer 10

Relied on same height

Question 11

What did we measure air temperature with?

Answer 11

A whirling psychrometer

Question 12

How did we measure wind speed?

Answer 12

Ventimeters

Question 13

What were the issues with ventimeters?

Answer 13

Got quite gusty, making the determination of scale hard

Question 14

How did we solve the issue with ventimeters?

Answer 14

Made it same time as psychrometers to reduce mistakes

Question 15

How did we check our data?

Answer 15

Used Met Office data and previous groups to see previous trends

Question 16

How did we present our data?

Answer 16

In a spreadsheet in Excel

Question 17

What type of graph did we use to plot air temperature against location

Answer 17

Bar Chart

Question 18

How did we analyse the data?

Answer 18

Measurements of central tendency

Statistical Tests

Question 19

What are the three measurements of central tendency?

Answer 19

Mean
Median
Mode

Question 20

How many sites did we use?

Answer 20

12

Question 21

What were our intervals between sites?

Answer 21

20m

Question 22

Which sampling strategy did we use on Cley Hill?

Answer 22

Systematic sampling

Question 23

Why did we use systematic sampling on Cley Hill?

Answer 23

It gave us an even spread across the hill

Question 24

What were the four pieces of equipment we used?

Answer 24

Pentameter, whirling psychrometer, gun clinometer and a compass

Question 25

What was one problem faced using the equipment?

Answer 25

We didn’t have enough gun clinometers between the different groups

Question 26

How did we improve the reliability of our data?

Answer 26

Replication of data collection

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