SNPA Field work opportunities AS/A Level Geography 2016-18 Themes Description Location AS/A How and why do beach profiles change? A study of a spit or pebble beach. Rowen beach and spit, Fairbourne How does succession develop on sand dunes? Harlech beach and dunes Coastal Landscapes What impacts does human activity have on coastal landforms? A study of the impacts of visitors or a coastline under threat. Fairbourne, Harlech or Barmouth What landforms are associated with glacial deposits? A study of the direction, size and Cwm Idwal Glacial landscapes fabrication of erratic’s. Yr Wyddfa A study of strategies used to manage human activities on glacial landscapes. Cadair Idris Diversification and re-branding in rural Snowdonia. Betws y Coed Re-branding of an urban area – regeneration through the industrial heritage. Blaenau Ffestiniog or Bethesda Changing Places A study of the impact of tourists on an attraction. How successful/sustainable has a tourism project been? Through a visit to a local moorland, take measurements of infiltration rates, river Y Migneint, discharge, the amount of water in peat and the amount of dissolved organic carbon Water and Carbon Cors Goch (Rhyd Ddu) cycles content of the moorland. Work out the total amount of carbon under your feet and the Penaran, Dolgellau carbon flux at work there. SNPA provision 2016-18 www.eryri-npa.gov.uk [email protected] 01766 772239 SNPA Field work opportunities GCSE Geography APCE 2016-18 Methodology Conceptual framework GCSE Themes Description Location Sustainability Sustainability Use of transects ofUse transects time overChange Qualitative surveys Geographical Flows Place influence Sphere of flows Cycles and risks Reducing Inequalities Study the environmental challenges caused by human How are physical activities in human/physical honeypot. What Cwm Idwal, landscapes affected by human strategies are used to manage the area, can you Snowdon, Betws activity? measure their effectiveness and manage them in the y Coed future? What factors affect the Study the processes that form the river basin and Glaslyn, Conwy, rates change in river cause change. What physical and human factors lead Nant Peris landscapes and why can they to flooding and what impacts can those floods have? catchment overflow? What factors affect the A study of the processes that form the coastline along Rowen or rates change in coastal a spit or pebble beach. Criccieth landscapes? Why do rural settlements in A study of the change afoot in rural towns and Various Snowdonia change?? villages; a chance to compare two contrasting sites. Coed y Plas / What factors create small A study of the factors that influence microclimate Coed Hafod, scale climatic variation? across a mountain slope or woodland. Cwm Llan A study of the pattern of vegetation across sand Morfa Harlech What are the key processes in dunes, woodland or mountain slope. What strategies Plas woodland an ecosystem and how do are used to manage the habitat and how effective are Coedydd Aber people use them> they? Cwm Idwal SNPA provision 2016-18 www.eryri-npa.gov.uk [email protected] 01766 772239 .