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Field Studies Themes

Human Geography:

• Land use – rural and urban conflicts of interest; planning and citizenship
• Landscape and resource management
• Sustainability, pollution, conservation and environmental protection
• Renewable resources, technology and industrial change
• Settlement formation, structure and development
• Industry and tourism; history, data collection and future development
• Agriculture -  historical development, current practices and countryside management
• Demography and social structures
• Architecture, buildings and infrastructure

Physical Geography:

• Water systems - drainage, channel characteristics, landscapes and human impacts
• Weather systems and climate change -  precipitation, forecasting, scale changes
• Patterns of light and sound
• Coastal landscapes - formations, processes and data analysis
• Erosional and depositional processes, formations and landscapes
• Mapping, data collection, recording and statistical analysis

Geology:

• Plate Tectonics, earthquakes, volcanoes and landscape features
• Rock types, formation processes and structures
• Soil formation and structure
• Fossil formation and the geological timeline

Biology:

• Colonisation, succession and vegetation patterns
• Land and marine habitats, adaptation and evolution
• Ecology, food chains, mineral and nutrient cycles
• Reproduction and life cycles of plants and invertebrates
• Predator - prey relationships, community size and structure
• Senses, reactions and behaviour
• Plant structure and human uses of plants

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