Geographic themes [Paper 1]
Unit Contents
- Geographic theme: Freshwater
- Geographic theme: Food and health
- Geographic theme: Extreme environments
Paper 1 of the IB DP Geography examination covers the geographic themes. geographyalltheway.com covers: Freshwater, Food and health, and Extreme environments. SL students study two of these themes and HL students study three. Students study them in depth, exploring real-world issues through detailed examples and case studies drawn from locations across the globe.
Detailed examples and case studies
The following detailed examples and case studies are covered across the three geographic themes, providing the real-world depth that Paper 1 requires:
Detailed example
- ee.1.1 Global distribution of extreme environments
- ee.1.2 Hot and arid extreme environments
- ee.1.3 Cold / high altitude extreme environments
- ee.3.4 Tourism in extreme environments
- fh.2.4 Vector-borne and water-borne diseases
- fw.2.3 Flood mitigation
- fw.3.2 Environmental consequences of agricultural activities on water quality
Case study
- ee.3.1 Mineral extraction in cold environments - Oil extraction in northern Alaska
- ee.3.2 Mineral extraction in arid environments - Uranium extraction in Niger
- ee.4.1 Desertification
- ee.4.2 Increasing competition for access - Oil extraction in northern Alaska
- fh.3.4 Famine
- fh.4.1 Solutions to food insecurity
- fh.4.3 Ebola - Managing the disease and pandemic
- fw.3.4 Conflict over internationally shared water resources
- fw.4.2 Multipurpose dams
- fw.4.3 Integrated drainage basin management - The Murray-Darling Basin
- fw.4.4 Wetlands
Places explored
Lessons draw on real-world examples from regions across the globe, giving students a genuinely international perspective:
Northern Africa
Eastern Africa
Western Africa
Northern America
- ee.1.1 Global distribution of extreme environments
- ee.1.2 Hot and arid extreme environments
- ee.1.3 Cold / high altitude extreme environments
- ee.2.2 Periglacial landscapes
- ee.2.3 Hot and arid landscapes
- ee.3.1 Mineral extraction in cold environments - Oil extraction in northern Alaska
- ee.4.2 Increasing competition for access - Oil extraction in northern Alaska
- ee.4.4 Global climate change in extreme environments
- fh.1.2 The nutrition transition
- fh.4.1 Solutions to food insecurity
- fh.4.2 Contemporary approaches to food production
- fw.2.1 Flood risk within a drainage basin
- fw.2.3 Flood mitigation
- fw.3.2 Environmental consequences of agricultural activities on water quality
- fw.3.3 Growing human pressures on lakes and aquifers
- fw.4.4 Wetlands
Eastern Asia
South-eastern Asia
Southern Asia
Western Asia
Eastern Europe
Northern Europe
Southern Europe
Western Europe
Australia and New Zealand
United Arab Emirates
Approaches
Content is delivered through a range of teaching and learning approaches, supporting different classroom contexts and learning styles:
Note taking frame
- ee.1.1 Global distribution of extreme environments
- ee.2.1 Glacial landscapes
- ee.2.2 Periglacial landscapes
- fh.1.1 Global patterns in nutrition indicators
- fh.1.3 Global patterns in health indicators
- fh.2.4 Vector-borne and water-borne diseases
- fh.3.4 Famine
- fh.4.2 Contemporary approaches to food production
- fw.2.3 Flood mitigation
- fw.3.3 Growing human pressures on lakes and aquifers
- fw.3.4 Conflict over internationally shared water resources
- fw.4.1 Participation of local communities to improve water management
- fw.4.2 Multipurpose dams
Photography
Looking downstream from Gullfoss, Iceland — one of many places explored in the geographic themes