Key learning points

1. Fieldwork enquiries allow geographers to investigate a place or changes over space.
2. Geographical enquiry includes asking questions, collecting data, presenting data, analysing, conclusions and evaluation.
3. Key questions or hypotheses can be used to frame a geographical enquiry.
4. Surveys can help geographers to find interesting patterns of data at their field site.

Keywords

• Enquiry - An enquiry is an investigation of a geographical feature or issue.

• Fieldwork - Fieldwork is investigating the outdoors using geographical tools and thinking to gather information or data.

• Data collection - Data collection is when you collect the data for your investigation using a range of methods.

• Hypothesis - A hypothesis is a statement which can be tested.

• Environmental quality survey - An environmental quality survey is a type of survey which assesses different factors that affect the environment in one location such as cleanliness and green space.

Common misconception