AQA A2 GEOG4a EXAM DISCUSSION, 09/05/17

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Can someone please educate me on GIS and remote sensing (for dummies), and also what can i say about the suitability of kite diagrams like advantages and disadvantages.

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KT44

Could someone explain this question to me? I'm struggling to understand what i need to write in order to answer it.
'Explain how your investigation is related to geographical theory'

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henry1823

Original post by KT44

Could someone explain this question to me? I'm struggling to understand what i need to write in order to answer it.
'Explain how your investigation is related to geographical theory'

So you need to talk about a theory you fieldwork relates to. So for mine i did rivers and i looked at brads haws model. To see if my rivers patterns were the same.

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tmifan

How would you answer the - 'how does this technique help your geographical understanding' - sorta questions?

e.g. statistical or cartographic

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daniiiiiii

what is 'geographical understanding' eg how graphical techniques improve geographical understanding?

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daniiiiiii

Original post by tmifan

How would you answer the - 'how does this technique help your geographical understanding' - sorta questions?

e.g. statistical or cartographic

yeh i'm wondering what it means by geographical understanding!

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henry1823

What does it mean by describe its relevance and what would i write for it if I did a river fieldwork "Describe one method of data collection and describe its relevance"

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Reply 27

daniiiiiii

Original post by henry1823

What does it mean by describe its relevance and what would i write for it if I did a river fieldwork "Describe one method of data collection and describe its relevance"

so you'd desribe what you did and then say how this is relevant to your hypothesis and theory

Reply 28

Temuchin

Original post by daniiiiiii

what is 'geographical understanding' eg how graphical techniques improve geographical understanding?

Its the ability to identify spatial relationships and trends in geographical studies.
So in terms of graphical techniques, how do these skills help you identify patterns and trends from your experience in geography, using examples to help

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username1846913

Original post by henry1823

Can you give the other points as I have never seen this question before and struggling to think of anything else.

Can be used by hydrologists and by flood defence authorities, and that's all I've got

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username1846913

Original post by henry1823

What does it mean by describe its relevance and what would i write for it if I did a river fieldwork "Describe one method of data collection and describe its relevance"

For relevance you need to talk about what you did and why and how it aided in proving your hypothesis/aims. For example we used a river in a national park so there would be little human interference and the river would be in its natural state, so our results would be more accurate when comparing to the Bradshaw Model. This means that using this river is relevant to our aim as it allows us to collect reliable results.

And for data collection we measured the velocity using a flow meter and measured the size of bedload, I can give you more info if you used one?

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Reply 31

bunnybunny99

Original post by KT44

Could someone explain this question to me? I'm struggling to understand what i need to write in order to answer it.
'Explain how your investigation is related to geographical theory'

That's usually the what your investigation is based on... so you'd have an aim and supposedly your aim is based on a model or models which go by a theory.

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fantanotbanta

Original post by melinalouise

Not sure how relevant these will be because we did a river study but:
-Could be used as secondary data by other colleges/ field study councils
-Beneficial for land use planners
-Useful for conversationalists, land use planners and RSPB (our river was in a national park)
-Environmentalists could use the data
These are the only ones that may be useful as the others are all about rivers, sorry :frown:

heyy!! what other points did you make related to rivers?? (our fieldwork was also based on a river)

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username1846913

Original post by fantanotbanta

heyy!! what other points did you make related to rivers?? (our fieldwork was also based on a river)

Just that it can be used by hydrologists and flood defence planners

Reply 34

Lukazztic

Any general predictions for questions tomorrow?
Based on past papers, I'm guessing that there will possibly be a question regarding secondary data, and possibly a question about the relevance of our work to geographers.
Data collection has come up a few years in a row now, so not sure I see it returning...

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daniiiiiii

In statistical tests, what does it mean by 'statistical significance'?

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username1846913

Original post by NeverGrowUp

Hi will we be required to draw or fill in any of these data presentation techniques?

probably not, more likely to assess the results

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username1846913

Original post by daniiiiiii

In statistical tests, what does it mean by 'statistical significance'?

It's the likelihood that the relationship between your variables is not due to chance. So for example if your spearman's rank value is above the critical value at 0.05 significance then the null hypothesis is rejected and the experimental accepted, so this means the relationship is 95% significant and not due to chance.