... are larger with distance from the sea. Where there are large amounts of seaweed there will be many periwinkles. Where there are more periwinkles there will be fewer limpets. I used these hypotheses because they were the most relevant towards how much time we had to collect the data, and how we would write up the investigation afterwards. They are also quite interesting hypotheses to analyse, and it would be good to find out more about my local environment. I decided to discard certain variables, mostly because of the time limit imposed to collect my data accurately, and they would also be irrelevant to my hypotheses: - (a) Depth and number of rock pools. (b) Distance the pools were from the sea (c) Different types of seaweed (d) Number of rocks in rock pools (e) Number of grains of sand on the beach As you can see these variables are mostly irrelevant, especially (e) which would be practically impossible to ...

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