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Justifying Human Fieldwork Data Presentation
Write the title of your human geography fieldwork enquiry.
Justify the use of one data presentation technique, for example a graph or a map, in your human geography enquiry.
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Marking points
- 1 Provides a full enough human-enquiry title to make the answer’s context clear.
- 2 Names one presentation technique and states what human-geography data it showed or how it was used.
- 3 Justifies the technique with two useful points or one clearly developed explanation tied to the enquiry.
Full-mark answer
Title: How does environmental quality vary with distance from the town centre? I used a grouped bar chart to compare environmental-quality scores at each survey site. It made differences between sites immediately visible, so I could identify the spatial pattern and compare it with the enquiry question. Plotting every site on the same scale also made the evidence easier to interpret accurately than a written list of scores.
Why this answer loses marks
I used a bar chart because it looked clear and neat.
The answer must say what the technique showed in the named human enquiry and how it helped comparison or interpretation, not just comment on appearance.