Unit Exam Review: IB Geo
Paper 1
IB Geography I
Test Day Specifics
• Paper 1 is worth 40% of your total IB
Grade.
• Paper 1 is 1 ½ hours long
• Paper 1 is divided into Section A and B.
– Section A: worth 45/60 marks
– Section B: worth 15/60 marks
Section A Tips
• answer ALL short-answer questions about
the four core themes
– Populations in Transition
– Disparities in Wealth and Development
– Patterns in Environmental Quality and
Sustainability
– Patterns in Resource Consumption
• 45 marks, approximately 17 minutes per
section
• Use the space they give you and only that
space
Section B Tips
• Students are required to answer one
extended response question from a choice
of three.
Section B Tips
• The questions require a broad treatment of
the content and may integrate multiple
topics across the core:
– Populations in Transition
– Disparities in Wealth and Development
– Patterns in Environmental Quality and
Sustainability
– Patterns in Resource Consumption
Section B Tips
• The questions require knowledge and
understanding, application and analysis,
and synthesis and evaluation.
• The command terms used in each
question indicate the depth required.
• Review all Case Studies
• Approx. 23 minutes
Study Guide:
The Core
Content
Populations in Transition
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Population Change
Responses to High and Low Fertility
Migration
Gender and Change
Population Change
• Population Momentum
• Development
Diamonds
• Birth Rate/Death Rate
(Crude)
• Infant Mortality/Child
Mortality
• Population Pyramids
• Population Projections
Responses to High and Low
Fertility
• Dependency Ratio
• Ageing Population
v. youthful
population
• Population Policies
(anti-natalist v. pronatalist)
Migration
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Voluntary v. Forced Migration
Push v. Pull Factors
Internal Migration v. International Migration
Lee’s Model
Refugees, asylum seekers, internally
displaced people
• Remittances
• Impacts of Migration
Gender and Change
• Gender and Social Norms
• Gender Gap Index
• Relationship between
Status and Fertility
• Gender and Education,
Employment,
Culture/Status, Income,
Land Tenure, Health/ Life
Expectancy, Migration
Disparities in Wealth and
Development
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Measurements of Disparities
Origins of Disparities
Disparities and Change
Reducing Disparities
Measurements of Disparities
• GDP, GNI, GNP, PPP
• Development Gap
• Human Development Index/Human
Development Report
• MEDC/LEDC/NIC
• Disparities in Income, Education Nutrition,
Marginalization
Origins of Disparities
• Gini Coefficient/Lorenz
Curves
• Cumulative Causation
• Core/Periphery
• Slums and the Urbanization
of Poverty
• Formal/Informal Sectors
• Factors that Result in
Disparities: Ethnicity,
income, education, land
ownership
Disparities and Change
• Theories used to
Explain Global
Development Gap
• Patterns and
Trends in Life
Expectancy,
Education, and
Income
• MDGs
Reducing Disparities
• FDI
• NGOs
• Free Trade/Fair Trade
(Access to markets)
• Effectiveness of aid
• Top Down/Bottom Up
• Remittances,
Microcredit, Debt
Relief
Patterns in Environmental
Quality and Sustainability
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Atmosphere and Change
Soil and Change
Water and Change
Biodiversity
Sustainability
Atmosphere and Change
• Review all vocabulary
• Climate Change/Global
Warming
• Greenhouse Effect
• Tipping Point
• Causes/Consequences
of climate change
• Greenhouse Gases
• Positive Feedback
Soil and Change
• Review all vocabulary
• Soil Degradation
• Causes,
Consequences,
Patterns of Soil
Degradation
• Management
Strategies
• Sustainable
Agriculture
Water and Change
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Review all vocabulary
Water stress v. Water scarcity
Potable Water
Patterns and Trends in Water use
Environmental v. Human Factors affecting water scarcity
Physical v. Economic scarcity
Conservation measures
Water footprint
Virtual Water
Factors that affect access to safe drinking water
Quantity v. Quality debate
Biodiversity
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Review all vocabulary
Biodiversity hotspots
Tropical rainforests
Ecological/Cultural/Eco
nomic Value
• Changes in the
Amazon: Logging,
Mining, etc.
Sustainability
• Environmental Sustainability
• Business-as-usual
• Green Technology
• ESI
• Ecotoursim/Destination
Footprint
• Environmental Impact
Assessment
• Pro-poor strategies
Patterns in Resource
Consumption
• Patterns of Resource Consumption
• Changing Patterns of Energy
Consumption
• Conservation Strategies
Patterns of Resource
Consumption
• Ecological Footprint
• Biocapacity
• Population Resource
Debate (Neo v. Anti
Malthusian)
• 3 Agricultural Worlds
• Green Revolution
(pros and cons)
Changing Patterns of Energy
Consumption
• Patterns and
Trends in Oil
Production and
Consumption
(MEDC/NIC/LEDC)
• Peak Oil
• Geopolitics and Oil
Conservation Strategies
• Changing Importance of
Other Energy Sources
(Renewables)
• Recycling, Reusing,
Reducing
• Quotas, Subsidies,
Rationing
• Overfishing
• Landfill
• Product Stewardship
• Substitution