Paper 3

Question 1

what are greenfield sites

Answer 1

houses and other building which have been built on land at the edge of a city which has never been built on before

Question 2

what are brownfield sites

Answer 2

land within a city that is no longer used. It may contain old factories or housing, or it may be cleared for redevelopment

Question 3

what are advantages of greenfield sites

Answer 3

relatively cheap as there is nothing to knock down or renew and rates of house building faster
the layout is not hampered by previous development so can easily be mad efficiently and pleasant
healthier environment, away from the polluted inner city and cbd

Question 4

what are disadvantages to greenfield sites

Answer 4

valuable farm or recreational land lost
wildlife and their habitats lost or disturbed,partly due to noise and light pollution
often far from work and services,generating more traffic
infrastructure such as gas and electricity may not be present
it’s away from the city centre so unnormal for people with social life

Question 5

what are advantages of brownfield sites

Answer 5

it’s easier to get permission from government as it’s develops the city as the land wasn’t being used
greenfield sites are not used so lessens urban sprawl
located near to main places of employment so commuting reduced
reduced the lost of land used for agricultural and recreational use

Question 6

what are disadvantages of brownfield sites

Answer 6

often more expensive as you must clear out all the old buildings
sometimes surrounded by other rundown buildings so unpleasant to live in
higher levels of pollution
closer to the cities so problems like crime rate and pollution increase

Question 7

what’s a two speed economy

Answer 7

the south east has a faster rate if growth than the rest of the uk

Question 8

what are some values and attitudes of different stakeholders towards migration

Answer 8

local shopkeeper, there are more people living in the town so there is more businesses
local residents, they bring culture and tradition to the society which adds to the diversity of British society
government spokesperson: immigrants are good as they are prepared to do jobs which other British workers aren’t such as agricultural work
government spokesperson, they increase the population which increases the pressure in the nhs, local transports and schools. There is also a large increase in claims for child benefit
local police officers, they had to have translators as they have to deal with more than 100 different languages.

Question 9

what’s a national park

Answer 9

an area of countryside that is protected because of its natural beauty and managed for visitor recreation.

Question 10

what are some responses to climate change by the government

Answer 10

there are many grants available to enable home owners to insulate their homes for free
electric cars are except from road tax
homes with solar panels to produce electricity, receive the ‘feed in tarrifs’. the extra electricity produced, feeds to national grid and they are paid for it
the renewable heat incentive where home owners who use air or ground source heat pumps receive a 7 year grant

Question 11

what are responses to climate change by schools

Answer 11

many schools are introducing energy efficient water and central heat systems run from renewable energy sources. schools turn off lights and some school have prefects which go around school and turn if the lights and computers at the end of the day

Question 12

what are responses to climate change by local councils

Answer 12

They have introduced ideas of cutting carbon emissions. Such as giving away free low energy light bulbs or Woking’s council CHP scheme.

Question 13

what are some responses by local interest groups

Answer 13

‘Manchester is my planet’. This group is running a pledge campaign to encourage individuals to reduce their carbon footprint. One of the initiative is or people with cars which are recognised as low carbon emission can buy a annum parking permitting at a 25% discount

Question 14

what’s stratified sampling

Answer 14

the population is divided into sections know as ‘strata’: the sampler ensures that the same amount of data is taken from each stratum.
For example, the starts could be roads in a CBD. The sampler would ensure that they interviewed ten people on each road.

Question 15

what’s random sampling

Answer 15

this is where things are chosen at random by chance. A random number table could be used.

Question 16

what’s systematic sampling

Answer 16

this means the sample is chosen according to an agreed interval. For example, every fifth person who walks past could be used.

Question 17

what are quantitative techniques

Answer 17

A data collection techniques that record statistical data or measurements and are carried in the field

Question 18

what are qualitative techniques

Answer 18

techniques in which information is gained through observation which typically involves a description of a feature

Question 19

what are primary data sources

Answer 19

first hand evidence collected by the researchers themselves

Question 20

what are secondary data sources

Answer 20

evidence collected by someone else

Question 21

whats the catchment area

Answer 21

area from which a river drains water

Question 22

whats discharge

Answer 22

the amount of water passing a specific point at a given time,meausred in cubic metres per second. Calculaed by cross sectional area X velocity

Question 23

how do you find a cross sectional area along a river

Answer 23

find 3 depths along the river width and find a mean for the average depth which was found by using a metre rule

take a measuring tape to find the width of the place which you found your depths

multily both results together to find the cross sectional area

Question 24

how do you measure a velocity of the river

Answer 24

use a hydroprop, rotation propeller placed in river. speed of rotation is the speed

otherwise drop an object in the river across 10m and time it then use the equation s=d/t to find the speed

Question 25

what type of sampling method did we use and why did we use it in a river

Answer 25

we used stratified sampling-by splitting the river course into upper,muddle and lower course as its accessible may see some changes can choose where to record data

Question 26

what are the courses of river holford used for

Answer 26

upper course is used as moorland(sandstone) middle course is used as deciduous woodlands(mudstone) lower course is used as agricultural use(limestone)

Question 27

why did we take photosketchs of river holford

Answer 27

to use as qualitative data so we annotate specific features and give a broad overview sketch is selfmade so it may be inaccurate in terms of scale. important details may be missed

Question 28

why did we use discharge line graph

Answer 28

we used edxcel to plot a graph with relation of discharge and distance downstream shows trends and pattern clearly which are easy to interpret doesnt show the cause and effect

Question 29

how did we collect quantative data in the central/inner urban area investigation

Answer 29

we use land use surveys where we walked down a street in inner city and cbd where we measured what the land was being used for such as residental,transport,industrial

Question 30

how did we collect qualitative data in the central/inner urban area investigation

Answer 30

this involves students giving scores to the quality of the environment in different areas such as amount of litter or how loud it is

Question 31

tell me about the somerset levels in 2013

Answer 31

somerset levels is very low lying and crossed by many rivers which makes it very prone to river and coastal flooding. to tr and reduce this, they have treied redirecting river tone to a new embankment channel. very heavy rainfall throughout the winters of 3013 and 2014 led to the flodding of 7000 hectares of land and 600 houses.

Question 32

what are some ways of presenting your fieldwork in a city

Answer 32

bar charts where we plot results in rectangles on a graph its easy to understand and interpret and to find trends however having too many bars makes it clustered radial diagrams highlights the siularly as twice as many results are plotted effective visually and easy to comprehend can easily compare to other results but if to simular its more difficult its hard to find anomalies more or less than 4 categories is hard to read