fieldwork

Question 1

Mitigating risk

Answer 1

reduce the risk- what is the nature of the risk and what is the human response?

Question 2

Change over time

Answer 2

comparing primary data with secondary sources to analyse changing patterns

Question 3

possible exam question:
How effective are coastal management strategies at swanage?

Answer 3

Two hypothesis:
-The coastal defences at swanage do a good job of protecting the beach from coastal erosion and longshore drift
-The coastal defences are well-maintained

Question 4

~How is primary data collected?

Answer 4

questioning every 10 people
Data collected ourselves

Question 5

~What do you do for each method including any equipment?

Answer 5

Ranging pole, clinometer

Question 6

~What is the sampling technique?

Question 7

~Which were qualitative and which were quantitative?

Answer 7

Qualitative- questionnaire, bipolar survey,

quantitative- counting waves,

Question 8

questionaire advantages

Answer 8

-Questionnaire-
Advantage
Shows a range of opinions, locals know the area, might explain patterns you found

Question 9

questionaire disadvantages

Answer 9

-Questionnaire-

Disadvantage
Not everyone will stop and answer your questions, may not fully understand the questions, biassed- if people live in the area they are more likely to say they like the area,
Miss out on opinions from young children and adults who are at school/work
Opinions from tourists is bad because they aren’t familiar with the area

Question 10

what is a bipolar survey

Answer 10

people rate statements based on how accurate it is from 1-5

Question 11

bipolar survey advantages

Answer 11

it is qualitative data but can be written in the form of numbers and statistics so can also be quantitative. Easy to put into a graph.

Question 12

bipolar survey disadvantages

Answer 12

they cant say their own personal opinions. Only a few options, it is based on one opinion.

Question 13

analysing long shore drift advantages

Answer 13

shows effectiveness of groynes

Question 14

analysing longshore drift disadvantages

Answer 14

data can change drastically over time. Only shows longshore drift at one point of the beach

Question 15

weaknesses of our data - questionaires

Answer 15

We only questioned people over 65 because people were at work or school- results were biased

-Only 3 lived in swanage (40% were not local)

-Asking technical questions that people may not understand/have knowledge about
-We only questioned 5 people

Question 16

weaknesses of our data- bipolar survey

Answer 16

isn’t reliable cus its based on one persons opinion. We only asked 1 person
We would get different results if we did the bipolar survey in the winter or after a storm.

Question 17

weaknesses of our data- analysis of longshore drift

Answer 17

not accurate because we did it on one groyne and not at different times of the year
If the tide was further in/ out we would have got different results.
Not enough measurements along the groyne.

Question 18

positvies of using booklets to analyise + write down data

Answer 18

uniform-everyone collects the same way- reliable

clear- easy to plot data

would need wifi to use a chromebook

Question 19

negatives of using booklets to analyse/ write down data

Answer 19

if it rains- data becomes hard to read

no space to add weather/time of when we collected information which might have affected results