Lesson Y9-U05-L01

Y9-U05-L01 What is Geographical Enquiry? Quiz: KS3 Geography, Unit 17

20 questions

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Lesson Y9-U05-L01, What is Geographical Enquiry?: 20 multiple choice questions for the KS3 Geography (National Curriculum), Unit 17: Year 9: Thinking Like a Geographer: Fieldwork and Geographical Enquiry, written with Revision Ninja.

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The 20 questions

  1. What is geographical enquiry?

    • Drawing a map of a place without collecting any data at all
    • Memorising the names of rivers, mountains and countries on a map before any lesson
    • Asking pupils to write their personal opinions about a place
    • Investigating a real question using evidence rather than guessing

  2. Which stage of the enquiry cycle comes first?

    • Question: choosing a focused geographical question to investigate
    • Collect: gathering the data, often through fieldwork outside
    • Conclude: judging how reliable the whole enquiry has been
    • Present: showing the collected data as maps, graphs or tables for the whole class

  3. Which stage comes straight after Collect in the enquiry cycle?

    • Present: showing the collected data as maps, graphs or tables
    • Plan: deciding what data to collect and how to collect it fairly
    • Conclude: answering the enquiry question and judging reliability
    • Question: choosing a focused geographical question to investigate

  4. What is a hypothesis?

    • A short summary of the final results written at the very end
    • A clear statement that you predict is true and then test with data
    • A list of every measurement you took at each site on the fieldwork day
    • A map that shows the exact location of every feature in the town

  5. What is fieldwork in geography?

    • Writing a summary of data that someone else has already collected
    • Collecting your own data outside the classroom, in a real place
    • Drawing a diagram of a river from memory while sitting indoors
    • Reading facts about places from a textbook during a lesson at school

  6. Which of these is the best example of data?

    • A belief that the town centre is slowly dying out
    • A feeling that the river looks very fast and dangerous
    • A hunch about why the local park is so popular
    • A count of 47 cars passing a junction in five minutes

  7. A friend says 'our town centre is dying'. Which action would give evidence rather than opinion?

    • Counting the number of empty shop units along the high street
    • Telling everyone how you personally feel about the shops there
    • Asking your friend to repeat the statement more firmly
    • Writing down what you remember about the shops from last year

  8. Which of these is a strong geographical enquiry question?

    • Is geography a fun subject to study at school?
    • Are rivers interesting to study in geography lessons at the local secondary school?
    • Is the world getting better or worse for everyone?
    • Does the River Gipping get wider as you move downstream?

  9. Which question could you answer with data you collect in one school afternoon?

    • Why do people around the world enjoy living in big cities?
    • Is the whole planet becoming warmer year after year?
    • Should every town in the country ban cars completely?
    • Is the air more polluted at the school gates than in the school field?

  10. A pupil writes 'Is the town busy?'. Which version makes it focused and answerable?

    • Is the town busy, and is it also a nice place to visit?
    • Is every town in Britain busy at some point in the year?
    • Are people in towns generally happy with their lives?
    • Is footfall higher near the station than near the park?

  11. A survey asked only 5 people about their local park. What is the main problem with this data?

    • It is too small to represent everyone who uses the park fairly
    • It uses numbers, so it cannot be compared with other surveys that used a different scale
    • It was collected too quickly to be of any use at all
    • It is impossible to present on a graph or a chart

  12. Why is the enquiry cycle drawn as a loop rather than a straight line?

    • The stages must always be repeated in exactly the same way each time
    • Data collection always takes place after the conclusion is written
    • Geographers only ever use the first stage in a real study
    • One investigation can spark the next question to investigate

  13. Which stage judges how trustworthy your conclusion is?

    • Plan: deciding which data to collect, how to collect it and who will do it
    • Present: showing the data in maps, graphs and tables
    • Conclude and Evaluate: judging how reliable the enquiry was
    • Question: choosing a focused question to investigate first

  14. Which example of evidence best supports the claim that a park feels unsafe after dark?

    • The park is a very popular place for dog-walkers each morning
    • The park was built many years ago by the local council
    • Visitors say the park feels dangerous to them during the day
    • 42 of 50 people surveyed avoid the park after dark

  15. A pupil records river width at five sites and then draws a bar chart. Which stage of the cycle is this?

    • Present: turning the data into a bar chart that others can read
    • Question: choosing what to investigate about the river
    • Conclude: deciding whether the river really gets wider overall, and writing a short final report
    • Collect: gathering the width measurements at each site

  16. Why does the Plan stage matter before any fieldwork starts?

    • It decides what data to collect and how to collect it fairly
    • It gives the final conclusion before any data is gathered and checked
    • It removes the need to ask a focused question at all
    • It lets the class skip the Present stage in the cycle

  17. Which statement shows the most careful use of evidence in an enquiry?

    • The data shows a clear trend, and one site is an anomaly
    • The river is nice, so the council should fund it next year
    • The result is obvious from the way the whole town looks
    • Everyone agrees the shops are closing, so it must be true

  18. What makes the hypothesis 'Footfall is higher near the station' different from a question?

    • It predicts an answer that data can support or reject
    • It cannot be tested with any data collected
    • It asks for an opinion rather than giving a fact about the place being studied
    • It names no place or measurable variable at all

  19. A claim is written with confident, scientific-sounding words. How can you tell whether it is evidence-based?

    • Check whether the claim uses confident, scientific-sounding words and a catchy title
    • Check whether it is backed by measured data that others could check
    • Check whether many people repeat the same claim online
    • Check whether the claim was written by a well-known expert

  20. A pupil says 'Traffic is heavier at 8.30am' using counts from one morning only. Which weakness should be named?

    • The conclusion was written in the past tense, not the present
    • The data uses numbers, which cannot show traffic at all
    • The data covers one time of day on one day only
    • The counts were taken by an adult rather than a pupil

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