Fieldwork Flashcards
1.1: Physical enquiry:
Hard engineering impacts longshore drift at sandbanks.
1.2: Human enquiry:
Urban regeneration has been successful in Poole High Street.
1.3: Fieldwork enquiry:
Investigation on a fieldtrip.
1.4: Data collection:
Methods used to collect primary data on a field trip.
1.5: Data presentation:
Presenting data in graphs or maps.
1.6: Data analysis:
Drawing a trend, evidence to support it, an anomaly(ies) and some statistics from the data you collected and accepting or rejecting your hypothesis.
1.7: Conclusions:
Overall opinions - can you accept or reject your hypothesis?
1.8: Evaluation:
Improvements and limitations of the enquiry.
1.9 Hypothesis:
A scientific statement you are aiming to test on your fieldwork enquiry.
1.10: Primary data
Data collected by you, in the field.
1.11: Secondary data
Data collected by someone else.
1.12: Continuous data:
Data that links together (e.g. changing CO2 levels over time)
1.13: Discontinuous data
Data that does not link to each other (e.g. class shoe sizes)