Fieldwork (AQA GCSE Geography): Exam Questions

As part of a geographical enquiry box , students carried out an environmental quality survey in one part of a town centre. The results are shown in Figure 8.

Figure 8

What is the total environmental quality score for the area shown in Figure 8?

Suggest one advantage and one disadvantage of using the technique shown in Figure 8 to measure environmental quality.

Advantage

Disadvantage

Students studied two different rivers over a distance of 1000 metres. For each river box they measured the depth at a number of sites. The results are shown on Figure 9.

Complete the scattergraph for River B by plotting the following data.

Distance from source – 450 m
Depth of river – 22 cm

Draw a line of best fit on the scattergraph for River B.

Justify one primary data collection method used in your physical geography enquiry.

A group of students wanted to investigate variations in temperature in their local area.

To do this, each student measured the temperature in a different place at the same time on one day in the month of June.

Study Figure 5, an isoline map showing the results of the temperature survey.

Complete the isoline map for 16^oC on Figure 5.

Describe the pattern shown by the isoline map (Figure 5).

Which of the following would be an appropriate alternative way of presenting the data shown on Figure 5?

A . Desire line map

B. Dot map

C. Flow line map

D. Proportional circle map

A student wanted to investigate the pattern of house prices in their local town.

To complete the enquiry, the student collected information from estate agents about the price of three bedroom houses in seven different areas (A-G).

Study Figure 4, a map showing the results of the house price survey.

Complete Figure 4 using the following data.

Suggest what the map shows about the pattern of house prices in the town.

Suggest two ways that the house price survey could be adapted to make it more useful.

A student wanted to carry out a human geography enquiry in their local town by investigating the question ‘Does the town centre have a parking problem?’

In order to do this the student carried out primary research, including a questionnaire and a car park survey.

Study Figure 4, which shows the results of the questionnaire and car park survey.

Complete the pie chart below to show the results of Question 2 in the questionnaire (Figure 4).

Using Figure 4, describe the pattern shown by the results of the car park survey.

A group of students wanted to investigate the hypothesis that ‘The size of pebbles in a river is smaller as the river flows downstream’.

In order to do this the students measured the long axis of ten pebbles from three different places (A, B and C) along the river.

Study Figure 5, a table showing the results of the survey.

Complete the diagram below by filling in the median pebble size for place C.

Outline the conclusions that the students could draw from the data.

Suggest two ways that the data collection method could be adapted in order to make it more useful.

A student wanted to investigate deprivation in an area of a city. As part of their enquiry they used the following secondary data (Figure 6).

Figure 6

Complete the graph below to show life expectancy in the study area.

In 2001, how many years lower was life expectancy in the study area than the city average?

Suggest two types of primary data that the student could use in their urban deprivation enquiry.

For one of your fieldwork enquiries, suggest how anomalies in your data could affect your fieldwork enquiry.

Title of fieldwork enquiry _______________

Write the title of your human geography fieldwork enquiry.

Title of human fieldwork enquiry ___________________

Justify the use of one of the following in your human geography enquiry:

• maps

• photographs

• field sketches