IB Geography SL study plan

Define and apply the seven geographic concepts (space, place, scale, processes, change, systems, sustainability) to two contrasting real-world examples you choose yourself

Distinguish between site and situation, and between absolute and relative location, using examples from your own country

Explain the demographic transition model stage by stage and identify one limitation of the model as a generalisation

Interpret population pyramids for a high-income and a low-income country and link each shape to dependency ratio and natural increase

Map the core-periphery pattern of economic development and name two indicators (one single, one composite) used to measure it

Compare two contrasting countries' population structures using pyramids you draw from published data

Explain the causes and consequences of an ageing population and of a youthful population, with one case study each

Evaluate one pro-natalist and one anti-natalist policy, stating evidence of effectiveness

Describe the main global migration flows and classify them as voluntary or forced, economic or political

Assess the impacts of migration on source and host regions using a named corridor

Distinguish between weather and climate and between the enhanced greenhouse effect and natural variability

Explain the radiative balance and the role of greenhouse gases with reference to incoming and outgoing radiation

Interpret a temperature anomaly graph and a carbon emissions pathway to describe trends and uncertainty

Evaluate two mitigation strategies and two adaptation strategies, naming their scale of implementation

Assess differential impacts of climate change on one low-lying state and one polar or high-latitude region

Distinguish renewable from non-renewable resources and stock from flow resources with examples

Explain the energy mix of two contrasting countries and account for the differences

Apply the concept of ecological footprint and explain the meaning of biocapacity and overshoot

Analyse the water-food-energy nexus using one named regional example

Evaluate one strategy for increasing resource security, such as recycling, substitution or trade diversification

Draw and label the hydrological cycle, distinguishing stores from flows and giving relative magnitudes

Explain the storm hydrograph and predict how urbanisation, deforestation and soil compaction change its shape

Compare the physical processes of coastal erosion, transportation and deposition and the landforms each produces

Evaluate two hard and two soft coastal management options against cost, lifespan and environmental impact

Interpret a water balance or water scarcity map and explain the physical and human causes of scarcity

Classify geophysical hazards by type and explain the plate boundary processes that generate them

Distinguish hazard, risk, vulnerability and capacity using a named event

Compare the disaster response to a high-income and a low-income earthquake or volcanic event

Describe the characteristics of an extreme environment and explain two adaptations of organisms or people to it

Evaluate the effectiveness of one hazard-management strategy, such as prediction, land-use zoning or engineering

Explain the growth of tourism using the tourism development model and identify its stages in a named destination

Assess the economic, social and environmental impacts of tourism in one mass destination and one niche or ecotourism destination

Outline the food security continuum and link food availability, access and utilisation to health outcomes

Design a fieldwork question for the internal assessment that is measurable and linked to a geographic concept

Select a sampling strategy and two data-collection methods appropriate to your fieldwork question, and justify them

Write the internal assessment report structure: introduction, methods, data presentation, analysis, conclusion and evaluation

Practise one paper-style extended response under timed conditions on a core theme

Review your weakest two domains using your own glossary and correct three misconceptions you identify

Answer ten mixed multiple-choice or short-answer items across all domains and record your error patterns

Summarise each domain in no more than five sentences to test recall without notes