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 CoreContent

Populations in Transition

• 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. pro-natalist)

Migration• 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

• 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

• 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• 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

• Review all vocabulary

• Biodiversity hotspots

• Tropical rainforests

• Ecological/Cultural/Economic 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