Enquiry Skills

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Enquiry Skills

• Gathering and Processing Techniques

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Gathering Techniques

• Gathering techniques allow us to find out
  information.
• There are many different gathering techniques
  that you could be asked to use in your exam. Take
  note of any information in italics, these are
  likely exam questions

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• Field sketching
• Drawing a picture of the area you are looking at.
  River valleys, urban land use, settlement.
• Observing and Recording
• Looking and noting features. Weather factors,
  traffic, land use, age of buildings
• Extracting Information
• Looking carefully at the table/diagram/article
  you are given. Satellite photos, climate graphs,
  newspaper articles, census data, land uses.

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• Extracting information from maps
• This is always the first question, you should
  look at height, aspect, farming, industry,
  landforms. Old maps especially former land use
  and industries.
• Questionnaires
• To gather information and opinions in the field.
  Sphere of influence, effects of industry, land
  use conflict
• Interviewing
• Asking a range of people for their opinions.
  Sphere of influence, industrial change, the
  weather, views on trade and aid.

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Processing Techniques

• Processing techniques are used to alter any
  gathered information and present it.
• A processing technique should make information
  easier to use and understand.
• Information is normally changed into graphs,
  tables, maps or diagrams.

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Graphs

• Graphs are one of the most common ways of
  presenting information. You should be able to
  create the following

Climate graph
Bar graphs
Multiple line graph
Line graph
Divided bar graph
Scatter graph
Pie-graph/chart
Population Pyramid
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• You may also be asked to alter/add to/look at
  information already on a diagram/map

Cross sections
Annotating diagrams
Transects
Add labels to diagram etc. to point out features
or add more information
This is a side on view of the land, it shows the
shape of the land
This is a cross section which shows features.
Shows the link between relief and land use
Normally shown on top of a map. Information such
as land use, population distribution, migration,
movement of goods
Recording information on maps
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And finally.

• Tabulating
• Turning available information into a table to
  compare results/places.
• Rose Diagram
• Compares the amount of something in different
  compass directions, normally wind direction.