Edexcel GCSE Geography B Topic 6 Geographical investigations overview quiz quiz

Just one investigation in total

Three separate investigations

Four separate investigations

Two

Forming a question or hypothesis

Evaluating the reliability of the whole enquiry

Presenting the collected data in graphs and maps

Reaching a final conclusion from the evidence

A hand-drawn field sketch of the river scene

Measuring river velocity with a flow meter

An annotated photograph with descriptive labels

An open-ended interview with local residents

A pedestrian count taken at a fixed point

Measuring pebble size with callipers along a beach

An environmental quality field sketch with notes

Counting traffic passing a junction each minute

Choosing all of the sample sites completely at random

Choosing only the most interesting-looking sites

Sampling in proportion to the size of each group

Collecting data at regular, fixed intervals

To reduce random error and the effect of anomalies

To deliberately waste as much of the time as is possible

To make the overall sample size much smaller

To avoid having to use any measuring equipment

A personal social media feed from the area

A geology or flood-risk map

A published work of fiction set by the coast

A detailed weather forecast for this time next year

A pie chart split into coloured segments

A single bar on its own with no others

A scatter graph with a line of best fit

A photograph of the study site in the field

Using a pen rather than a pencil to record answers

Asking slightly too few questions of each of the people surveyed

Recording the respondents' answers on paper by hand

Bias from time of day, leading questions or chosen locations

Answers the original question or accepts or rejects the hypothesis using the evidence

Simply lists all of the limitations and problems with the data that was collected

Describes the weather conditions on each of the separate days the fieldwork was carried out

Chooses all of the measuring equipment that will be needed for the investigation

Writing out the title of the whole investigation

The evaluation of reliability and improvements

Drawing the base map of the study area

Choosing the colour of pen used to write it

Both of them carried out in a physical environment

Both of them carried out in a human environment

One physical (coast or river) and one human (urban or rural)

Both of them carried out inside the classroom at the school site