Fieldwork Flashcards
What was the aim of the investigation of the river tillingbourne?
To investigate how the river tillingbourne changes downstream
What was our hypothesis with the physical enquiry?
Velocity, channel width and channel depth will all increase downstream
What was our sampling method in the physical geography enquiry?
Systematic across the river channels
5 sample points per transect
Stratified site to sample characteristics
What is our primary data with the river tillingbourne?
Velocity
Width + depth
Field sketch
Why did we choose the location we did with the river tillingbourne?
Could examine human activity impacts
Close to school - easy to return
What were our locations at the river tillingbourne?
Tributary of river Wey, source leith hill
Crossways farm
Abinger hammer
Gomshall (secondary data only)
What was our secondary data with the river tillingbourne?
Land use survey
Os map
FSC data
Environment agency
What was our theory with the river tillingbourne?
Bradshaws model
Changes in river characteristics from source to mouth
What was our theory with the river tillingbourne?
Bradshaws model
Changes in river characteristics from source to mouth
What was our risk assessment with the river tillingbourne?
Weather
Slipping
Weils disease
Drowning
How are we going to present our river data?
Cross section for width and depth
Bar graph for velocity
Annotated photo
Scatter graph for mean width/distance from source
What was our conclusion and evaluation for the river tillingbourne?
Bradshaws model is not perfect due to human influence at abinger hammer and crossways
We should increase sample points
Anomalous points
What is our title for our human fieldwork?
How does quality of life vary in Reigate?
What was our theory for human fieldwork?
Quality of life
Cycle of poverty
Index of multiple deprivation
What is our risk assemsent for Reigate?
Traffic
Strangers
Getting lost weather
What was our location of our familiar fieldwork?
Reigate, Surrey
South East of England
25 miles from London
What was our sampling of Reigate?
Stratified
Systematic
Random
What was our primary data for Reigate?
Environmental quality survey (EQS)
Car survey
Photographs
Place check
Epitome words
Soundscapes
What was our secondary data for Reigate?
Census data
Index of multiple deprivation
House price data
Newspapers
What was our data presentation for Reigate?
Multiple bar graph (EQS)
Annotated photographs
ArcGIS - proportional symbols
Why did we choose Reigate?
Local to school
Can easily return to repeat measurements
Low ris
A range of urban land uses within a small area
Population size
How did we sample a street?
Systematic
What was our conclusion for Reigate?
Quality of life improves from south to north (environment and socio-economic)
Quality of life relatively improves with height
How reliable is our conclusion for Reigate?
Methods support conclusions to some extent - we had good spatial coverage
Results could be supported by secondary data
Should be done at separate times of year
Opinion based scale is relatively small
Certain streets were not reperesented
How could we improve our data analysis with Reigate?
Should be supported with the census and index of multiple deprivation
Return at a different time of day and year
