Fieldwork 🗺

Question 1

Sample size=

Answer 1

How many times or pieces of data you will collect 

Question 2

5 steps for perfect method

Answer 2

1. What data are you collecting?
2. Where can you get it (area)?
3. How much do you need (sample size)?
4. How will you select it (sampling strategy)?
5. How will you do it?

Question 3

What is random sampling

Answer 3

Where each member of the public is equally likely to be included

Question 4

What is stratified sampling

Answer 4

The proportionate number one observations are taken from each part of the population

Question 5

What is systematic sampling

Answer 5

Observations are taken at regular intervals

Question 6

What type of data do you use bar charts for

Answer 6

Used for data which can be placed into discrete categories

Question 7

What type of data do you use line charts for

Answer 7

Good for data which shows changes over time

Question 8

What type of data are pie charts used for

Answer 8

Divides data into manageable and proportional categories (visual)

Question 9

What a type of data do you use pictograms for

Answer 9

Visual data

Question 10

When describing data what should you look for

Answer 10

Biggest and smallest value
General trend
USE FIGURES

Question 11

What does reliability mean

Answer 11

How much we can trust that your findings are accurate

Question 12

What does validity mean

Answer 12

Extent to which you accurately measured the phenomena under investigation

Question 13

What does accuracy mean

Answer 13

How close the findings are to the true value

Question 14

ECONOMIC reasons FOR building the cruise ship port

Answer 14

Visitor spending has decreased over the last 30 years
Daily spending per person of cruise ship passengers is 55% lower than that of long stay visitors
Job opportunities
Will help to regenerate GeorgeTown - encourage new industry and being leisure & cultural opportunities to the area
Without the new terminal cruise traffic will decrease by 50%

Question 15

ENVIRONMENTAL reasons FOR building the cruise ship port

Answer 15

In order to ensure economic &social benefits outweigh environmental costs they will…
- work with local environmental groups to identify likely impacts
- use divers to monitor effects on marine environment (ensure damage is kept to acceptable levels)
-put in place coral transplanting, relocation and restoration

Question 16

ENVIRONMENTAL reasons AGAINST building the cruise ship port

Answer 16

• dredging to a depth of 10m - harms ecosystem
• damage to coral reef
• Cruise ships in the Caribbean are estimated to produce 70,000 + tonnes of waste water a year

Question 17

SOCIAL reasons AGAINST building the cruise ship port

Answer 17

• increased vehicle and pedestrian traffic in GeorgeTown
• reduction of visitors and loss of income for water sports and diving activities
• increased number of cruise visitors may deter stay over visitors from busting GeorgeTown

Question 18

Is tourism worth the trouble in the Caribbean? Reasons for yes

Answer 18

For every dollar of spending an additional $1.6 is generated by long stay visitors and $1.2 by cruise ship visitors
For every $100,000 invested in the tourism industry, 50 jobs are created (Every hotel room creates at least 1 job)
The marine tourism industry generates 200 million jobs

Question 19

How many of the top 20 destinations most reliant on tourism for their income are islands?

Answer 19

17 are islands and 50% are found in the Caribbean

Question 20

SOCIAL reasons FOR building the port

Answer 20

Pedestrianised shopping and leisure area= more money injected into the local economy - creates jobs - locals become richer can afford better living conditions

Question 21

How many people currently rely on cruise tourism for employment

Answer 21

5000

Question 22

Where is the new port being developed

Answer 22

Cayman Islands

Question 23

What is the title of the physical fieldwork?

Answer 23

To investigate the changes downstream of the river at Carding Mill Valley

Question 24

What is the title for the human fieldwork?

Answer 24

To investigate the differences between the redeveloped and non- redeveloped area in central Birmingham

Question 25

What sampling method was used during the physical fieldwork

Answer 25

Stratified initially as we wanted to see the change in specific areas (eg. Just after tributary joined river) However this lead to large areas being unrepresented so we had to do some additional sites using a systematic approach (roughly every 250m)
We did 10 sites in total

Question 26

What did we do at each site in the physical fieldwork

Answer 26

Measured 10m along the river with a tape and dropped in a dog biscuit. Then we timed with a stopwatch how long it took to travel 10m downstream
We could then calculate the speed. We did this 3 times at each site so average could be calculated

Question 27

What method of data presentation did you use during physical fieldwork

Answer 27

Scatter graph - chosen as it allows us to plot 2 variables (distance downstream and velocity)
The trend could be seen through a line of best fit - as you move downstream velocity increased
Line graph wasn’t used as it wasn’t continuous data

Question 28

Evaluate method used in physical fieldwork

Answer 28

Only issue is when the dog biscuit got stuck - took an average to improve accuracy
We found all the data we needed without harming the environment
Reaction times will have weakened accuracy

Question 29

Evaluate the results found for the physical fieldwork

Answer 29

The results showed a positive correlation and proved the hypothesis
There was one anomaly after the channelisation which would have hindered results however we could account for it

Question 30

What collection method did you use and how did address the aim

Answer 30

Used a STRATIFIED sampling strategy in order to look at 4 sites in deferent stages if redevelopment

Question 31

What method did you use and why was is appropriate for the human fieldwork

Answer 31

1. Measured the environmental quality using a BI-POLAR INDEX - categories were chosen in order to look at a wide range of key things eg. pollution, litter , air and noise
   The index ranged from 2+ to 2- and I tried to avoid using 0 in order to make a clear decision
   I could have used a decibel metre to measure noise however this would have only accounted for one factor wheras my method accounted for a range of factors
   We could then compare conditions in a redeveloped area against conditions in a non- redeveloped area

Question 32

Why was radar diagrams (method of data presentation) appropriate

Answer 32

The radar diagrams allowed us to give a total score to each site and then we would be able to rank them from worst to best. We could then suggest a reason for observed patterns was due to redevelopment and suggest that redevelopment had a positive impact on the environment

Question 33

How valid and reliable were the conclusions made during the human fieldwork

Answer 33

Could be argued that due to he very subjective nature of the bi polar survey this could have made the results unreliable and we should, have possibly collected data in another way eg. A devise to measure air quality and a decibel metre yo quantify noise
However due to lack of equipment this was not available
Questionnaires could have also been conducted to get the opinion of others

Question 34

What can you do to make collection methods give more realisable data

Answer 34

Take recordings on different days
Take a bigger sample size