Fieldwork

Question 1

What was the aim of the investigation of the river tillingbourne?

Answer 1

To investigate how the river tillingbourne changes downstream

Question 2

What was our hypothesis with the physical enquiry?

Answer 2

Velocity, channel width and channel depth will all increase downstream

Question 3

What was our sampling method in the physical geography enquiry?

Answer 3

Systematic across the river channels
5 sample points per transect
Stratified site to sample characteristics

Question 4

What is our primary data with the river tillingbourne?

Answer 4

Velocity
Width + depth
Field sketch

Question 5

Why did we choose the location we did with the river tillingbourne?

Answer 5

Could examine human activity impacts
Close to school - easy to return

Question 6

What were our locations at the river tillingbourne?

Answer 6

Tributary of river Wey, source leith hill
Crossways farm
Abinger hammer
Gomshall (secondary data only)

Question 7

What was our secondary data with the river tillingbourne?

Answer 7

Land use survey
Os map
FSC data
Environment agency

Question 8

What was our theory with the river tillingbourne?

Answer 8

Bradshaws model
Changes in river characteristics from source to mouth

Question 9

What was our theory with the river tillingbourne?

Answer 9

Bradshaws model
Changes in river characteristics from source to mouth

Question 10

What was our risk assessment with the river tillingbourne?

Answer 10

Weather
Slipping
Weils disease
Drowning

Question 11

How are we going to present our river data?

Answer 11

Cross section for width and depth
Bar graph for velocity
Annotated photo
Scatter graph for mean width/distance from source

Question 12

What was our conclusion and evaluation for the river tillingbourne?

Answer 12

Bradshaws model is not perfect due to human influence at abinger hammer and crossways
We should increase sample points
Anomalous points

Question 13

What is our title for our human fieldwork?

Answer 13

How does quality of life vary in Reigate?

Question 14

What was our theory for human fieldwork?

Answer 14

Quality of life
Cycle of poverty
Index of multiple deprivation

Question 15

What is our risk assemsent for Reigate?

Answer 15

Traffic
Strangers
Getting lost weather

Question 16

What was our location of our familiar fieldwork?

Answer 16

Reigate, Surrey
South East of England
25 miles from London

Question 17

What was our sampling of Reigate?

Answer 17

Stratified
Systematic
Random

Question 18

What was our primary data for Reigate?

Answer 18

Environmental quality survey (EQS)
Car survey
Photographs
Place check
Epitome words
Soundscapes

Question 19

What was our secondary data for Reigate?

Answer 19

Census data
Index of multiple deprivation
House price data
Newspapers

Question 20

What was our data presentation for Reigate?

Answer 20

Multiple bar graph (EQS)
Annotated photographs
ArcGIS - proportional symbols

Question 21

Why did we choose Reigate?

Answer 21

Local to school
Can easily return to repeat measurements
Low ris
A range of urban land uses within a small area
Population size

Question 22

How did we sample a street?

Answer 22

Systematic

Question 23

What was our conclusion for Reigate?

Answer 23

Quality of life improves from south to north (environment and socio-economic)
Quality of life relatively improves with height

Question 24

How reliable is our conclusion for Reigate?

Answer 24

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

Question 25

How could we improve our data analysis with Reigate?

Answer 25

Should be supported with the census and index of multiple deprivation
Return at a different time of day and year