HSIE Teachers - HSC Geography: Economic Activity
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  • Tourism - Global economic activity
    • Nature
    • Spatial Patterns
    • Future Directions >
      • Research Task - Future Directions
    • Factors Affecting Tourism >
      • Biophysical
      • Ecological
      • Economic
      • Socio-cultural
      • Organisational
      • Technological
      • Political
    • Impacts of Tourism >
      • Social Impacts
      • Economic Impacts
      • Environmental Impacts
      • Ecotourism
      • Impacts - Venice
  • Local Case Study - Great White Bear Tours
    • Nature of economic enterprise
    • Locational factors
    • Ecological dimensions
    • Linkages
    • Effects of global changes
    • Maps and photographs
    • Vocations
    • Fieldwork: Hudson Bay
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Practice questions

Economic Activity (e.g. Tourism)
Explain how an economic activity you have studied has responded to the challenges of ecological sustainability.

Explain the factors that have influenced the nature and spatial patterns of one economic activity you have studied.

Analyse the environmental and social impacts of one economic activity you have studied.

Examine the nature, spatial patterns and future directions of ONE economic activity in a global context.

Assess the environmental, social and economic impacts of ONE economic activity in a global context.

Explain how biophysical, economic and political factors influence the future directions of different economic activities.


Explain the nature of, locational factors and linkages of, an economic activity that you have studied on a local scale.

Economic enterprise (e.g. Great White Bear Tours, Sheraton, Perisher, etc)
Explain how global changes in an economic activity have affected an enterprise you have studied at a global scale.

Account for the location of an economic enterprise you have studied at a local scale, and describe the ecological dimensions related to this enterprise.

Describe how environmental constraints and human impacts influence the nature of an economic enterprise you have studied at a local scale. 

Evaluate the importance of a variety of factors in determining the future of an economic enterprise that operates on a local scale.

Describe the nature of ONE economic enterprise operating at a local scale and analyse its locational factors.

Analyse the linkages and flows of people goods, services and ideas within an economic enterprise

Analyse how an economic enterprise operating at a local scale can be affected by global changes.
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Remember: 
- if it says economic activity - they are asking you to talk about tourism
- if it says economic enterprise - they are asking you to talk about an actual tourism business 
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  • Home
    • Tourism research lesson
    • Essay activity
    • Practice questions
    • Assessment
  • Tourism - Global economic activity
    • Nature
    • Spatial Patterns
    • Future Directions >
      • Research Task - Future Directions
    • Factors Affecting Tourism >
      • Biophysical
      • Ecological
      • Economic
      • Socio-cultural
      • Organisational
      • Technological
      • Political
    • Impacts of Tourism >
      • Social Impacts
      • Economic Impacts
      • Environmental Impacts
      • Ecotourism
      • Impacts - Venice
  • Local Case Study - Great White Bear Tours
    • Nature of economic enterprise
    • Locational factors
    • Ecological dimensions
    • Linkages
    • Effects of global changes
    • Maps and photographs
    • Vocations
    • Fieldwork: Hudson Bay
  • HSIETeachers Home