GCSE Geography Controlled Assessment Essay
GCSE Geography Controlled Assessment
When I visited Box Hill my main objective was to analyse the effects of tourism on Box Hill’s ecosystem and how the people at Box Hill have dealt with the effects, I will visit 4 sites which are Upper Burford Spur, Lower Burford Spur, Viewpoint and Broadwoods Tower. All of this was linked to either the weather, the surroundings, the species nearby or the tourism. All my results will be linked to my vegetation transect. My vegetation transect will have information on each site such as the percentage of bare ground, the percentage of vegetation, the maximum height of species and the soil compaction. My vegetation transect will be split into 3 parts, 0 metres from the path, 3 metres from the path and 6 metres from the path.
The first method I used to collect results was the proportional circle map, a proportional circle map represents the population of people at the four different sites at Box Hill. The first thing I did was I created a scale for which I could use as a key for my results. The more people in one site, the bigger the radius of the circle would be e.g 0.5cm=1 person, 1cm=2people. I would also categorise each site …show more content…
Evidence of great amounts of soil compaction were found in site 1, Lower Burford Spur, the soil compaction was 150mm. This is because it is very close to the car park therefore there will be a lot of people walking on the grass causing greater soil compaction. Evidence of a reduction in height of vegetation was in Site 3, viewpoint which was the honeypot site. The maximum height of vegetation was 0mm which indicates that there was little/no vegetation. This is because site 3 was the honeypot site and Box Hill conducted a lot of maintenance by covering the grass with
When I visited Box Hill my main objective was to analyse the effects of tourism on Box Hill’s ecosystem and how the people at Box Hill have dealt with the effects, I will visit 4 sites which are Upper Burford Spur, Lower Burford Spur, Viewpoint and Broadwoods Tower. All of this was linked to either the weather, the surroundings, the species nearby or the tourism. All my results will be linked to my vegetation transect. My vegetation transect will have information on each site such as the percentage of bare ground, the percentage of vegetation, the maximum height of species and the soil compaction. My vegetation transect will be split into 3 parts, 0 metres from the path, 3 metres from the path and 6 metres from the path.
The first method I used to collect results was the proportional circle map, a proportional circle map represents the population of people at the four different sites at Box Hill. The first thing I did was I created a scale for which I could use as a key for my results. The more people in one site, the bigger the radius of the circle would be e.g 0.5cm=1 person, 1cm=2people. I would also categorise each site …show more content…
Evidence of great amounts of soil compaction were found in site 1, Lower Burford Spur, the soil compaction was 150mm. This is because it is very close to the car park therefore there will be a lot of people walking on the grass causing greater soil compaction. Evidence of a reduction in height of vegetation was in Site 3, viewpoint which was the honeypot site. The maximum height of vegetation was 0mm which indicates that there was little/no vegetation. This is because site 3 was the honeypot site and Box Hill conducted a lot of maintenance by covering the grass with