World Wise Quiz Fieldwork Round 2009 Sponsored by the Field Studies Council

World Wise QuizFieldwork Round 2009

Sponsored by the Field Studies Council

Instructions• There are 10 multiple choice questions all

somehow connected to fieldwork.

• Answer each question in turn – consulting with other members of the team.

• The questions get harder as you progress…starting pretty easy and then becoming increasingly harder.

• GOOD LUCK!

Question 1

Q: What is the most likely habitat that these students are

studying ? a. Coastal sand dunes

c. A saltmarsh d. A garden ecosystem

b. The CBDa. Woodland

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Question 2

Q: What is the purpose of this item of equipment and how does it work?

a. Measures air moisture - estimate wetness / humidity through blades

c. Estimates wind direction – operator turns machine to face windd. Estimates amount of light – operator points it towards the sky


b. Measures wind speed – the blades spin round to measure speed

Question 3

Q: A student has used this simple web-based GIS to locate their field-study location. Which website has the map been

created on? a. Microsoft Maps

c. Ordnance Survey – ‘Get-a-map’

d. Calculating the total amount of sun

b. Multimap


d. Google Maps

Question 4

Q What is the strength and nature of the relationship

between environmental quality and traffic flow? a. Inappropriate, weak

d. No relationship indicated

b. Positive, weak

c. Negative, moderately strongc. Negative, moderately strong


Question 5

Q: Four students are asked to describe what the technique to ‘interview’ means, as part of a lesson on fieldwork for a forthcoming visit. Which would you say is the best interpretation?a. A question that is asked at the end of a geographical enquiryc. Creating an mp3 recording of the noise in a street

b. A series of short ‘yes / no’ type questions asked in a street survey


d. A face to-face discussion with someone using open-ended questions

Question 6

Q: On a field visit to chalk landscape as soil pit (or hole in the ground) is dug. A photograph is then taken showing this soil ‘profile’. What are the yellow arrows point at?

?a. Lumps of chalk

c. Mixture of plant and animal parts

d. Fossil remains

b. 2-10 degrees


b. Soil horizons / layers in the soil

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Question 7Q: What is this technique called and what is it for?

a. Storm simulation – simulate a rainfall event over a bare soil surface

c. Vegetation efficiency test – operator uses different amounts of water on a seed trial d. Evaporation rate test – water moves over the soil and amount evaporated calculated as a %

b. Soil chemistry test – looking at the pH of different soil surfaces


Question 8

Q: A geography student is mapping a piece of woodland, shown in the OS grid square above. Estimate the area of

this woodland. 1ha = 1/100km2

a. 0.01 km2

c. ~35 hectares d. ~95 hectares

b. 0.1km2

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Question 9

Q: Which are the correct names (including spelling!) for the three types of graph 1-3

a. (1) Chloropleth, (2) kite diagram, (3) desire line map

c. (1) Kite graph, (2) chloropleth, (3) flow line map

d. (1) Isoline graph, (2) choropleth, (3) desire line map

b. (1) Kite graph, (2) choropleth, (3) flow line map


1 2 3

Question 10

Q: As part of research enquiry you have been asked to investigate noise levels (‘acoustic footprint) from a local airport. You find that noise is a nuisance above 60dB, and find an aircraft takes-off with 80dB. How many times ‘noisier’ is plane than the nuisance level?

a. 1000 times louder

c. 6 times louder d. 150% louder

b. Twice as loud


Typical airport acoustic footprint. Source NASA

60dB = nuisance

80dB = aircraft

Question no. Answer

1 a

2 b

3 d

4 c

5 d

6 b

7 a

8 c

9 b

10 a

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World Wise Quiz Fieldwork Round 2009 Sponsored by the Field Studies Council