1. Unit Exam Review: IB Geo Paper 1
IB Geography I

2. 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

3. 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

4. Section B Tips
Students are required to answer one extended response question from a choice of three.

5. 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

6. 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

7. Study Guide: The Core Content

8. Populations in Transition
Population Change
Responses to High and Low Fertility
Migration
Gender and Change

9. Population Change Population Momentum Development Diamonds
Birth Rate/Death Rate (Crude)
Infant Mortality/Child Mortality
Population Pyramids
Population Projections

10. Responses to High and Low Fertility
Dependency Ratio
Ageing Population v. youthful population
Population Policies (anti-natalist v. pro-natalist)

11. 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

12. 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

13. Disparities in Wealth and Development
Measurements of Disparities
Origins of Disparities
Disparities and Change
Reducing Disparities

14. Measurements of Disparities
GDP, GNI, GNP, PPP
Development Gap
Human Development Index/Human Development Report
MEDC/LEDC/NIC
Disparities in Income, Education Nutrition, Marginalization

16. 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

17. Disparities and Change
Theories used to Explain Global Development Gap
Patterns and Trends in Life Expectancy, Education, and Income
MDGs

18. Reducing Disparities FDI NGOs
Free Trade/Fair Trade (Access to markets)
Effectiveness of aid
Top Down/Bottom Up
Remittances, Microcredit, Debt Relief

19. Patterns in Environmental Quality and Sustainability
Atmosphere and Change
Soil and Change
Water and Change
Biodiversity
Sustainability

20. Atmosphere and Change Review all vocabulary
Climate Change/Global Warming
Greenhouse Effect
Tipping Point
Causes/Consequences of climate change
Greenhouse Gases
Positive Feedback

21. Soil and Change Review all vocabulary Soil Degradation
Causes, Consequences, Patterns of Soil Degradation
Management Strategies
Sustainable Agriculture

22. 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

24. Biodiversity Review all vocabulary Biodiversity hotspots
Tropical rainforests
Ecological/Cultural/Economic Value
Changes in the Amazon: Logging, Mining, etc.

25. Sustainability Environmental Sustainability Business-as-usual
Green Technology
ESI
Ecotoursim/Destination
Footprint
Environmental Impact
Assessment
Pro-poor strategies

26. Patterns in Resource Consumption
Patterns of Resource Consumption
Changing Patterns of Energy Consumption
Conservation Strategies

27. Patterns of Resource Consumption
Ecological Footprint
Biocapacity
Population Resource Debate (Neo v. Anti Malthusian)
3 Agricultural Worlds
Green Revolution (pros and cons)

28. Changing Patterns of Energy Consumption
Patterns and Trends in Oil Production and Consumption (MEDC/NIC/LEDC)
Peak Oil
Geopolitics and Oil

29. Conservation Strategies
Changing Importance of Other Energy Sources (Renewables)
Recycling, Reusing, Reducing
Quotas, Subsidies, Rationing
Overfishing
Landfill
Product Stewardship
Substitution