Topic (1.2) What Kind of Fieldwork Will You Do?

By the end of this topic you should be able to:

explain the terms: geography fieldwork, enquiry question, hypothesis, data, quantitative data, qualitative data, primary data, secondary data, human geography, physical geography;
explain the difference between a hypothesis and an enquiry question;
choose fieldwork topics where either quantitative or qualitative data would be collected (and explain the difference between them);
give examples of primary and secondary data;
devise two enquiry questions for geography fieldwork.

In this topic you will look at the types of fieldwork you might carry out.

Complete all the ‘Your turn’ activities on page 8 of geog 2.
Draw a table to summarise the advantages and disadvantages of quantitative, qualitative, primary and secondary data.

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