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What's covered, in curriculum order. Titles and summaries are free to browse; the full section, with worked examples, unlocks with a free account.
1. Map Interpretation
Using a 1:25,000 scale OS map alongside photographs, sketches, and other supplementary items to answer complex questions.
2. Physical Gathering Techniques: Beach, Slope & Stream Analysis
How beach profile, slope, and stream analysis techniques measure real physical landscapes for independent geographical research.
3. Physical Gathering Techniques: Micro-Climate, Pebble, Soil & Vegetation Analysis
How micro-climate, pebble, soil, and vegetation sampling techniques gather reliable physical geography data for independent research.
4. Human Gathering Techniques: Surveys & Perception Studies
How environmental quality surveys, interviews, questionnaires, and perception studies gather reliable human geography data.
5. Human Gathering Techniques: Land-Use Mapping & Traffic Surveys
How rural and urban land-use mapping and traffic surveys record how land is used and how people and vehicles move through it.
6. Data Types & Sampling Methods
The difference between nominal, ordinal, and interval data, and the random, regular, and stratified methods used to sample it.
7. Graphical & Map-Based Techniques for Presenting Data
Choropleth maps, isoline maps, kite diagrams, scattergraphs, and other techniques used to present complex geographical data.
8. Descriptive Statistics: Central Tendency & Dispersion
How to calculate the mean, median, and mode of a data set, and how range, interquartile range, and standard deviation measure its spread.
9. Inferential Statistics: Testing for Significant Relationships
How chi-squared analysis, correlation coefficients, linear regression, and nearest neighbour analysis test whether a geographical pattern is significant.
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