Escolar Documentos
Profissional Documentos
Cultura Documentos
Population Change
Responses to high and low fertility
Movement responses - migration
Gender and change
Measurements of regional and global disparities
Origins of disparities
Disparities and change
Reducing disparities
Atmosphere and change
Soil and change
Water and change
Biodiversity and change
Sustainability and the environment
Patterns of resource consumption
Changing patterns of energy consumption
Conservation strategies
Characteristics of hazards
Vulnerable populations in the face of hazards
Definition of and extent of vulnerability
Analysis of risk in the face of hazards
Hazard event prediction
Definition of and measuring disasters
Proactive/Before event planning
Short-term, mid-term and long-term responses after the event
Definitions of leisure
Tourism changes in supply and demand
International participation and success in sport and case study of a contemporary international
sports event
Tourism as a development strategy including 2 case studies (1 national tourism industry and one
ecotourism case study)
Case study of a national sports league
Tourism management in urban and rural areas
The leisure hierarchy, intra-urban spatial patterns, urban regeneration
Sustainable tourism
Urbanization, inward and outward movement, natural change, and the global megacity
Urban land use - residential areas
Urban land use - areas of economic activity
Urban microclimate
Other types of environmental and social stress in urban areas
Sustainable cities - the city as a system
Sustainable cities - case studies of sustainable management and urban ecological footprint
Sustainable strategies - housing, pollution management, controlling rapid growth
C4 Mostly human 3
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D1 Physical 7
D2 Human 1
D2 Human 3
D3 Human 3
D3 Human 3
D4 Physical and Human 4
D5 Physical and Human 4
D5 Physical and Human 5
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E1 Human 2
E2 Human 4
E3 Mostly Human 4
E4 Mostly Human 6
E5 Human 3
E6 Physical and Human 4
E7 Human 4
E8 Physical and Human 3
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F1 Mostly Human 4
F2 Human 1
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Explain, Identify
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Examine
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Examine
Discuss
Discuss
Explain, Examine
Examine, Analyse, Evaluate
Examine, Evaluate
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Describe, Discuss, Examine
Explain, Examine, Discuss
Define, Examine
Explain, Examine
Examine
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Examine
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Explain, Examine, Describe
Examine, Evaluate
Define, Explain
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Explain, Describe, Examine
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Discuss
Evaluate
ocean currents, oceanic crust, ocean floor morphology, oceanic volcanos, trenches, transform faults,
oceanic energy transfer, oceanic conveyor belts, ENSO, La Nina, ocean
biotic resources, abiotic resources, continental shelves, ocean floor deposits, fish
radioactive material, chemical waste, oil
sovereignty, EEZ, geopolitics
tides, wave action, littoral drift, wind action, lithology, subaerial processes, coastal landfo
tsunamis, storm surges, erosion, cliff failure, habitat restoration, aqua
extreme environments
discomfort, inaccessibility, remoteness
glaciers, glacial erosion, glacial deposition
permafrost, patterned ground, solifluction, thermokarts, pingos
weathering, wind formed features, water formed features
health, infant mortality rate, child mortality, health adjusted life expectancy (HALE), calorie intake
treatment of disease
globalization indices, AT Kearney index, KOF index, core areas, network hubs/n
friction, time-space, flow of goods, telecommunications, ICT, civil so
loans, debt repayment, development aid, remittances, FDI, repatriation of profits, transfer of capital
agro-industrialization, food miles, environmental controls, safety regulations, environmental awar
common commercial activity
cultural traits, media, consumer culture, branded commodities, diasporas, minority traits, cultural d
imperialism
multi-governmental organization, EU, ASEAN, NAFTA, MERCOSUR, AU, nation state, nationalism, an
globalization, glocalization, non-globalized societies
Question 46 (medium)
Question 47 (hard)
Question 37 (medium)
Question 48 (medium)
Question 49 (medium)
Question 50 (easy)
Question 51 (medium)
Question 52 (hard)
Question 16 (hard)
Question 17 (medium)
Question 34 (easy)
Question 18 (easy)
Question 53 (easy)
Question 36 (easy)
Question 35 (hard)
Question 74 (hard)
Question 19 (easy)
Question 20 (hard)
Question 23 (medium)
Question 43 (medium)
Question 21 (hard)
Question 22 (medium)
Question 25 (medium)
Question 24 (hard)
Question 66 (medium)
Question 41 (hard)
Question 26 (easy)
Question 28 (hard)
Question 27 (easy)
Question 29 (medium)
Question 44 (hard)
Question 30 (easy)
Question 32 (medium)
Question 70 (easy)
Question 67 (easy)
Question 33 (medium)
Question 57 (hard)
Question 63 (hard)
Question 54 (hard)
Question 73 (hard)
Question 56 (easy)
Question 42 (medium)
Question 55 (easy)
Question 40 (easy)
Question 45 (easy)
Question 39 (hard)
Question 71 (medium)
Question 65 (easy)
Question 62 (hard)
Question 61 (medium)
Question 38 (easy) Question 60 (medium)
Question 68 (medium)
These skills are essential to the study of geography and reflect the subject’s distinctive
methodology and approach. Teaching these skills enriches the students’ understanding of
geography and enables them to apply the techniques of geography and use appropriate
terminology. It is essential that the skills are covered throughout the whole syllabus and t
are introduced and integrated where appropriate, depending on the context, in the differe
and the HL extension. It is essential that the skills are all taught at some stage of the cour
are not treated in isolation.
Students are expected to demonstrate competence in the use of geographic skills in exam
papers and internal assessment as appropriate. Those skills indicated below in italics are n
assessed in the externally assessed examination papers.
It is recognized that the ability to use Geographic Information Systems (GIS) is a valuable
geographic tool that goes beyond many of the skills listed below. Where GIS is accessible
practical, its use is encouraged. However, the syllabus does not require GIS and it will not
in the assessment.
Skill
Interpret, analyse and, when appropriate, construct tables, graphs, diagrams cartographic mat