Year 7 - Geography
Fieldwork: Analysing, concluding and evaluating microclimate data
Weather and climate: how do they vary?
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Unit Summary
This unit teaches pupils about the physical processes that help explain our weather and climate. Pupils will use fieldwork to investigate weather in their local area. Pupils will also learn about how and why our climate is changing.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to analyse and reflect on your microclimate data to create meaningful conclusions and an evaluation.
Key Notes
- Analysis can involve looking for relationships between independent and dependent variables.
- Conclusions discuss the most likely or most common relationships.
- Geographers are careful not to assume a reason for a relationship.
- Geographers often need to collect more than one sample of each data type to be sure of their conclusions.
Vocabulary To Learn
- assumption: what a geographer believes to be true, rather than what they have evidence for
- interpretation: what a geographer judges might be true based on the evidence they have
- sample size: the number of pieces of data (of one type) that the geographer collects
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Assumptions and interpretations in geographical analysis are equally valid.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain this geography topic using two clear key points.
Analysis can involve looking for relationships between independent and dependent variables. Conclusions discuss the most likely or most common relationships.
2. Define this geography term and use it in an example. 'assumption'
what a geographer believes to be true, rather than what they have evidence for.
3. Correct this common geography misunderstanding.
Mistake: Assumptions and interpretations in geographical analysis are equally valid. Correction: Geographers should always aim to interpret their data accurately rather than make assumptions about it.
More Lessons In This Unit
- Actions to tackle climate change Study Guide
- Anticyclones Study Guide
- Causes of climate change Study Guide
- Depressions Study Guide
- Fieldwork: Planning and collecting microclimate data Study Guide
- Fieldwork: Presenting microclimate data Study Guide
- Impacts of climate change on the UK Study Guide
- Past climate change Study Guide
- The UK's climate Study Guide
- Types of rainfall Study Guide
- Weather and climate Study Guide
- Weather and climate forecasting Study Guide
- World climate zones Study Guide
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