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Geographical Investigation and Skills
Quick questions on The geographical investigation and hypotheses explained: H2 Geography
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What is framing a sharp geographical question?Show answer
A good question is focused, answerable and geographical. It is tied to a location, an appropriate scale, and variables that can actually be measured. "Is the city hot?" is useless; "How does air temperature vary along a transect from the city centre to the rural edge?"
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Rewrite the weak question "Is the river big?" as a focused, testable geographical question. [2 marks]
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Identify the independent and dependent variable in an investigation of how vegetation cover changes with distance from a footpath. [2 marks]
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Explain why a geographer states the null hypothesis before collecting data. [3 marks]
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