Within a range of meaningful contexts students will be able to make statements about implications and possible actions consistent with the results of a statistical investigation and to find and authenticate data measures such as mean, median, mode, inter-quartile range, and range.

 

References, further reading, and links to useful websites.

NIWA discusses, in depth, this year's most asked question—what is happening to our fresh waterways?

When soils erode, sediments are washed into waterways.

The climate of this area is greatly dependent on its exposure to weather systems from the Tasman Sea and the lie of the Southern Alps to the east.

Monthly climate summaries from December 2001 to the present.

In comparison to the vast span of geological time, the estuaries that we see today are very recent coastal features.

How may agricultural activities impact riparian vegetation around a waterway?

Floods are not unusual in New Zealand, but those that hit us early this winter broke records. Why did they occur? Should we expect more? Can we predict future floods?