Paper 3: Geographical investigations: fieldwork and UK challenges

Students measured beach profile at 5 points along a beach. Suggest one sampling method and justify it.

Pebble long-axis lengths (mm) at one site (data are illustrative, written for this paper): 42, 55, 38, 61, 44. Calculate the median.

For your own coastal fieldwork, evaluate the reliability of your conclusions.

Students used an environmental quality survey in a town centre. Give one strength and one weakness of this method.

Environmental quality scores at 5 sites (data are illustrative, written for this paper): 12, 18, 7, 15, 3. Calculate the range.

For your own urban fieldwork, evaluate the reliability of your conclusions.

Which one of the following is a strategy to increase UK housing supply?

Describe the UK's ageing population.

Study the figure. Explain how the UK's energy mix has changed and why.

Explain one economic and one social challenge facing the UK.

In a region, 21,000 out of 140,000 people are aged over 65 (data are illustrative, written for this paper). Calculate the percentage.

Explain how climate change could affect the UK.

Explain why there is pressure on the UK's National Parks.

Suggest how the UK could reduce its carbon emissions from transport.

Resource (written for this paper): A UK city must reduce flooding and housing shortages. Option 1: build 4,000 homes on a floodplain protected by new defences. Option 2: build 2,500 homes on brownfield sites and restore wetland upstream. Option 3: build 4,500 homes on green belt land on the urban fringe. Select the option you think is best. Justify your choice. [12 marks + 4 SPaG]