Practice IB Geography Topic 2.1 Causes of Global Climate Change with authentic exam-style questions for both SL and HL students. This question bank focuses on the exact syllabus content for 2.1 Causes of Global Climate Change and mirrors Paper 1, 2, 3 style where relevant.
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(a) the term maladaptation and one reason why it may occur.
(b) two reasons why climate-related data is often insufficient or unreliable in low-income countries.
(e) two reasons why implementing these adaptation strategies might be more difficult in low-income countries.
(f) one limitation of relying on adaptation to safeguard future food security under climate change.
(g) the effectiveness of shifting planting dates alone with combined strategies across all crops.
(a) two reasons why climate-related hazards may have greater impacts in rapidly urbanising low-income countries.
(b) three ways in which climate change may lead to increased environmental injustice between countries at different levels of development.
(d) two reasons for the increase in the number of recorded natural disasters since the 1980s.
Source: GermanWatch
(a) the role of international agreements in reducing global climate vulnerability.
(b) two reasons why cities are often more vulnerable to the impacts of climate change than rural areas.
(c) how environmental and socioeconomic factors interact to influence the resilience of a population to climate-related hazards.
Global climate change is an increasingly prevalent global issue.
(a) the potential impacts of global climate change on coastal regions.
(b) the greenhouse effect and its role in global climate change.
(c) the concept of a positive feedback loop in the context of global climate change, using an example.
(d) the effectiveness of international agreements in mitigating global climate change.
Analyze the impact of global climate change on water resources.
(d) The graph shows the impact of adaptation on crop yields in a warmer climate
Sources: Sara Minoli (2022)
which crop shows the greatest projected increase in yield from combined adaptation strategies.
(c) The Map shows the the Sea Level projections globally.
Source: World Trade Organization/Center for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (WTO/CRED)
the two most frequent types of natural disasters in the 2000s.
(e) two implications of increased climate-related disasters for national adaptation planning.
