Geography- Fieldwork

Question 1

What is the physical enquiry title?

Answer 1

Investigate the changes to the characteristics of the sand dunes at Knoll Beach, Studland Bay.

Question 2

What is the human enquiry title?

Answer 2

Investigate climate change mitigation in Purbeck.

Question 3

State the physical enquiry hypothesis

Answer 3

No change to the shape of, and vegetation on, the sand dunes.

Question 4

State the human enquiry hypothesis

Answer 4

The local community actively support the switch to renewable energy.

Question 5

What are the adaptations of marram grass

Answer 5

Adapted to live in the fore and yellow dunes by having long roots. These help by keeping the plant firmly in the ground, even in strong winds

Question 6

How did you present your physical fieldwork findings? (detailed)

Answer 6

• By using a transect graph to show the dunes shape. - A protractor, pencil + ruler were used.
  —> X axis showed distance, Y axis showed height
• Angle data was plotted at every 5 meters along the transect .
  —> Protractor put at the intersection for 0meters, marked the gradient angle and plotted at 5m.
• Repeat process for all data
• To show the vegetation findings we overlaid a dot distribution to show the vegetation species at every 5 meter + percentage coverage.

Question 7

How was our physical fieldwork presented?

Answer 7

• Transect data as a sand dune profile
• Vegetation + pH data with dot dispersion graph

Question 8

What is the physical fieldwork conclusion and reasons?

Answer 8

Inconclusive to some extent but proven with vegetation data
- Not a very significant change in shape/height of the sand dunes
- Evidence of dune damage- no embryo dune- due to tourism and wind
- Significant change to the % coverage of vegetation
- Limited variation of vegetation species diversity