1. GCSE Unit 3 Section B A Tourist’s World Revision Notes, exam skills and flash cards 1

2. Graphical skills: Complete graphs Line graph: January 2013 2

3. Graphical skills: Complete graphs Line graph: January 2013 How it is marked One mark for each correct plot. The accurate joining of the plots is needed for full marks. Max. 1 mark if plots are not joined up, 3

4. Questions based on graphs Usually 1 and 3 mark questions. (ii) How many tourists visited the Blue Mountains in 2005? (1) (iii) Describe the changes in the number of tourists visiting the Snowy Mountains shown on Figure 6a. Use number of tourists data in your answer. (3) Answer the questions. Check your answers next slide. 4

5. (ii) 620 000 (iii) State the overall change: There is an overall decrease in the number of tourists between 2003 and 2010 (1) Give data: from 670 000 to 630 000. Small decrease of 40 000 tourists (1) Describe fluctuations/variations: However, there was an increase in the number of tourists between 2003 and 2004 (1) before a fall in number until 2006 (1) when the numbers increased again to 640 000 in 2007 (1) Since 2007, tourist numbers have been fairly similar (1) Data=1 mark 5

6. Bar graph: June 2012 6

7. How it is marked. 2x1 for each correct plot. Limit to 1 mark if the height is correct but the shading is incorrect. 7

8. Questions based on graphs Usually 1 and 3 mark questions. (ii) How many 16-24 year olds travelled abroad in 1993? (1).............................................................. million (iii) Describe the differences in the 55-64 age group shown on Figure 6a. Use number of tourists data in your answer. (3) Answer the questions. Check your answers next slide. 8

9. (ii) How many 16-24 year olds travelled abroad in 1993? (1) 4 (iii) Describe the differences in the 55-64 age group shown on Figure 6a. Use number of tourists data in your answer. (3) State the overall change: There are more tourists in the 55-64 age group in 2000 than in 1993. (1) Give data: 3.5 million in 1993 (1) 7.3 million in 2000(1) Overall increase of 3.8 million. (1)  maximum 2 marks from data. Comment: still one of the smallest categories despite the increase (1) 9

10. Different types of tourism: Key words Define… What is meant by…? Usually, 1 mark question 10