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Geographic skills, fieldwork and assessment craft

Use geographic evidence to locate places, identify patterns and support explanations and judgments. Topics: Maps, images and geographic data, Command terms and examination responses, Planning, analysing and evaluating fieldwork.

SL/HL core unit 1: Changing population

Explain how population distribution, demographic change and economic development affect people and places at different scales. Topics: Population and economic development patterns, Changing populations and places, Challenges and opportunities.

SL/HL core unit 2: Global climate - vulnerability and resilience

This unit explains changes in the global energy balance, their uneven consequences, and responses to climate risk. Topics: Causes of global climate change, Consequences of global climate change, Responding to global climate change.

SL/HL core unit 3: Global resource consumption and security

This unit links development and consumption to pressures on water, food and energy security. Topics: Global trends in consumption, Impacts of changing trends in resource consumption, Resource stewardship.

Option A: Freshwater

This optional strand examines drainage basin processes, flooding, and competing demands for freshwater. Topics: Drainage basin hydrology and geomorphology, Flooding and flood mitigation, Water scarcity and water quality, Water management futures.

Option D: Geophysical hazards

This optional strand connects geophysical processes with unequal hazard risks, impacts and responses. Topics: Geophysical systems, Geophysical hazard risks, Hazard risk and vulnerability, Future resilience and adaptation.

Option F: Food and health

This optional strand examines disparities in nutrition and health, food systems, disease diffusion and the power of stakeholders. Topics: Measuring food and health, Food systems and spread of diseases, Stakeholders in food and health, Future health and food security and sustainability.

Option G: Urban environments

This optional strand examines urban patterns, changing city systems, social and environmental stresses, and future city design. Topics: The variety of urban environments, Changing urban systems, Urban environmental and social stresses, Building sustainable urban systems for the future.

HL core extension unit 4: Power, places and networks

This unit examines uneven global power, the flows connecting places, and the processes shaping those connections. Topics: Global interactions and global power, Global networks and flows, Human and physical influences on global interactions.

HL core extension unit 5: Human development and diversity

This unit explores ways to improve human development and the effects of global interactions on cultures and identities. Topics: Development opportunities, Changing identities and cultures, Local responses to global interactions.

HL core extension unit 6: Global risks and resilience

This unit examines the geopolitical, economic and environmental risks created by global interactions and strategies for managing them. Topics: Geopolitical and economic risks, Environmental risks, Local and global resilience.