Changing Rural Environments (Edexcel GCSE Geography A): Exam Questions

Explain one advantage of a technique used to present your fieldwork data.

Technique used

Explain one disadvantage of a sampling strategy used in your investigation.

Named sampling strategy

Explain one way secondary data helped to support your investigation.

Study Figure 4 in the Resource Booklet.

A group of students were investigating the quality of the environment in a rural settlement.

Evaluate the following statement.

A group of students collected data to investigate change in a rural settlement.

Study Figure 4a in the Resource Booklet.

Identify the two categories of vehicles with the highest total in Figure 4a.

Describe one other way the students could have presented their traffic data

Study Figure 4b in the Resource Booklet

Explain one limitation of using this fieldwork method.

The students used random sampling to select people to complete a questionnaire about the environment.

Explain one limitation of using random sampling to collect this data.

Study Figure 4c below. It shows a bar chart created by the students to show the mean results of their questionnaire.

Plot the data given in the table below by completing Figure 4c.

You have studied a rural settlement(s) as part of your geographical investigation.

Evaluate the success of the methods used to collect your fieldwork (primary) and secondary sources of data.

You must refer to your chosen rural fieldwork location in your answer.

Name of your rural fieldwork location

A group of students collected data to investigate change in the rural settlement of Ambleside.

Study Figure 4a below

Describe one fieldwork method the students may have used at this sampling site

Describe one fieldwork method the students may have used at this sampling site.

The students produced a divided bar chart to show the flow of traffic.

Complete Figure 4b by plotting the data below

State one limitation of using divided bar charts to present this data.

Suggest one way this data could have been presented differently