Geography GCSE
Tourism and recreation
What Tourism and recreation means in Geography GCSE, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Tourism and recreation
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Reference: AQA
Human activity inferred by locating specific Ordnance Survey symbols such as camp sites, viewpoints, parking areas, information centres and heritage sites.
Topics that use Tourism and recreation
- Cartographic skills (AQA GCSE)
Related terms
- Annotation
- Cartographic interpretation
- Cartographic skills
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- Contour patterns
- Curved line distance
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Using Tourism and recreation in the exam
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