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Risk Assessment
Assessing Risk The teach explain to the group that risks can never be completely avoided but they can be limited. It is therefore important to conduct as risk assessment prior to going on fieldwork. The...
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Methodology
Study Area and River Sites Following the risk assessment the students decided that they needed to investigate the upper section of the river. This is because the channel depth would most likely be within...
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Data Presentation
River Velocity Velocity data was collected at 8 sites down the river. At each site surface velocity was measured at five equidistant points across the channel. From this data students calculated the mean....
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Analysis and Conclusion
Analysis and Conclusions Bradshaw's Model suggests that velocity increases downstream. This is due to more water be ing transported in the river and less of it in contact with the bed and bank. These...
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River Fieldwork Module
This page provides a study module that allows students to work independently through river fieldwork. It takes a step-by-step approach including quizzes questions, reflections and tasks to provide an...
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Data Presentation
Justifying the Data Presentation A bar graph was considered but was thought to be too basic. It was easy to read but not so useful for analysis because it didn’t show the separate environmental indicators...
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Data Collection
Check your ideas for environmental measure here There many other ideas Data Presentation Students added green space and gardens to the survey as well as traffic and parking space to their survey and collated...
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The Environmental Quality Survey
The pros and cons of the methods Read the following description of the methods. Do you agree? Method 1 provides a sample of town from the CBD to the suburbs and so allows for a valid data sample. A transect...
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Methodologies Question
Activity - Methodology Students could choose two hypotheses to investigate and so the group chose 1 and 5 Environmental quality increases with distance from the CBD Services reflect the wealth and demographic...
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Settlement Fieldwork Module
This page provides a study module that allows students to work independently through settlement fieldwork. It takes a step-by-step approach including quizzes questions, reflections and tasks to provide...