Question 1: Think of a local park. List five different types of data you could collect about the park (e.g., types of trees, number of visitors).

Answer: Possible data types include: types of trees present, number of visitors per hour, types of animals seen, activities people do, facilities available (e.g., benches, toilets).

Question 2: Imagine you have visited a river. Describe how you would record the width of the river at five different points along its course.

Answer: I would measure the width at each point using a tape measure or a ruler, noting the measurements in centimeters or meters, and record each measurement with its location along the river.

Question 3: You are asked to present your data about the weather in your town over a week. What is the best way to organize this data? Explain your answer.

Answer: The best way is to create a table with days of the week as columns and weather parameters (temperature, rainfall, sunshine hours) as rows. This makes it easy to compare data across days.

Question 4: Describe how you could show the most popular outdoor activity in your school playground based on survey results.

Answer: I could create a bar chart showing the number of students choosing each activity or list the activities with the number of votes next to each one.

Question 5: Draw a simple bar graph to show the number of different types of transport students use to get to school (e.g., walking, cycling, bus, car).

Answer: A correct sketch would have categories along the horizontal axis and a vertical axis with numbers. Bars of varying heights would represent the number of students using each transport type, with clear labels.

Question 6: Explain how a pie chart can be used to show the proportion of different land uses in a town (e.g., residential, commercial, parkland).

Answer: A pie chart divides a circle into slices, each representing a land use category. The size of each slice shows the proportion of that land use relative to the whole town.

Question 7: Imagine you want to compare the average rainfall in two different months. What type of graph would you choose and why?

Answer: A bar graph or column chart would be suitable because it allows easy comparison of rainfall amounts between the two months.

Question 8: Sketch a simple line graph to show temperature changes throughout a day, from morning to evening.

Answer: A correct sketch shows a horizontal axis labeled with time (morning to evening) and a vertical axis labeled with temperature. The line should connect data points showing temperature increases or decreases over the day.

Question 9: Describe how you would present data about the number of different species found in a forest using a table.

Answer: A table with two columns: one for species names and one for the number of each species found. Rows list each species and its count, making the data easy to read.

Question 10: You have recorded the number of cars passing a certain point every hour for a day. How could you best display this data to identify peak traffic times?

Answer: A line graph plotting time on the horizontal axis and number of cars on the vertical axis would clearly show when traffic peaks during the day.