1. Fieldwork Round 2013 World Wise Quiz Fieldwork Round 2013-14 Supported by the Field Studies Council

2. Format There are 10 questions all somehow connected to fieldwork. There are 5 questions on fieldwork techniques/skills, and 5 questions about more general geographical knowledge related to fieldwork Answer each question in turn – consulting with other members of the team. GOOD LUCK!

3. Question 1 This piece of fieldwork equipment has to be held up in the air to take a reading, but what is it used to measure?

4. Question 2 These students are carrying out a study of a heather moorland. Name the piece of equipment (with the brown wooden frame in the photo above) they are using to sample the plants found here?

5. Question 3 The three picture clues above represent a type of place which attracts a lot of visitors and often forms the basis of a study on tourism or tourism impacts. What is this type of place called? http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1578709 http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2300234

6. Question 4 This equipment is commonly used for fieldwork whilst working in a river. The plastic oranges are used to measure the speed of the flow. Why might plastic oranges be better for this task than real oranges?

7. Question 5 Most of you will have or have used a smartphone, but you may not know that they can be very helpful when doing fieldwork. What is being displayed on the screen of this smartphone?

8. Question 6 Some students have visited a local river and taken this photograph. They have identified the features as a meander, but where across the meander is the water going to be flowing the fastest? http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/772113

9. Question 7 What are the two types of farming shown and what activity does each involve taking place? http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/889936 http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/980233

10. Question 8 What are the two types of question which can be asked whilst conducting public questionnaires?

11. Question 9 Groynes are a common form of coastal defence and often form part of a fieldwork study into coastal processes/management. What is the natural process which groynes aim to slow down? http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2853712

12. Question 10 After carrying out a fieldwork investigation it is important to present clearly the data you collected. One type of data presentation is shown on this map, what is type of presentation called?

13. ANSWERS 1 – wind speed (and possibly, direction) 2 – quadrat 3 – honey pot site 4 – float/don’t get damaged so easily/reusable 5 – a 6-figure OS grid reference 6 – outside of the bend (meander) 7 – arable (the growing of crops), pastoral (the rearing of animals) 8 – open questions, closed questions 9 – longshore drift 10 – chloropleth (mapping)