Fieldwork (AQA GCSE Geography)

As part of a geographical enquiry box , students carried out an environmental quality survey in one part of a town centre. The results are shown in Figure 8.

Figure 8

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Lots of traffic pollution						No traffic pollution
Lots of litter						No litter
Unattractive buildings						Attractive buildings
Lots of vandalism						No vandalism
No landscaping						Good landscaping

Students studied two different rivers over a distance of 1000 metres. For each river box they measured the depth at a number of sites. The results are shown on Figure 9.

Write the title of your physical geography fieldwork enquiry

Study Figure 4, a table showing information collected by students about housing development in four areas on the edge of a town.

Figure 4

Study Figure 5, showing information from a survey of 100 people in a coastal area.

Figure 5

Study Figure 6, part of a student’s planning sheet in a fieldwork enquiry.

Study Figures 7a and 7b, part of a contour map and a cross section used in a river enquiry.

Study Figure 8, information about a questionnaire survey.

Write the title of your physical geography fieldwork enquiry.

Title of physical fieldwork enquiry ________.

Risk ________.

How the risk was reduced ______.

A student wanted to carry out a human geography enquiry in their local town by investigating the question ‘Does the town centre have a parking problem?’

In order to do this the student carried out primary research, including a questionnaire and a car park survey.

Study Figure 4, which shows the results of the questionnaire and car park survey.

A group of students wanted to investigate the hypothesis that ‘The size of pebbles in a river is smaller as the river flows downstream’.

In order to do this the students measured the long axis of ten pebbles from three different places (A, B and C) along the river.

Study Figure 5, a table showing the results of the survey.

A student wanted to investigate deprivation in an area of a city. As part of their enquiry they used the following secondary data (Figure 6).

Figure 6

Write the title of your human geography fieldwork enquiry.

Title of human fieldwork enquiry ___________________

• maps
• photographs
• field sketches.

A group of students wanted to investigate if the quality of footpaths varied in a National Park. Students asked 50 people their opinions on the quality of three footpaths (A, B and C).

Study Figure 4, a table showing the results of their survey.

Figure 6

Suggest two ways the questionnaire shown in Figure 6 could be improved to make it more useful.

Figure 7 is a pictogram showing the results for Question 4 in the questionnaire (Figure 6).

The student used the data they collected to draw a desire line map (Figure 8) to show where people came from when visiting the out-of-town shopping centre.

A group of students wanted to carry out an investigation into the decline of the high street. They counted the number of charity shops in three town centres (A, B and C).

Figure 9 shows the results of the survey in Town centre A.

Figure 10