External Evaluation of the European Baccalaureate (Annexes)

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Geography Syllabus structure
Higher level
Application of skills at HL for Core 1 and Core 2
• Map reading
• Aerial photograph interpretation
• Satellite imagery.
• Figure interpretation, figs., graphs, tables etc.
• Census of population data.
• Weather maps and weather data.
• Textual and Secondary sources.
• G I S.
Skills required for the G.I.
• Map interpretation.
• Photograph analysis.
• Statistical analysis.
• Information technology applications.
• Geographical information systems.
• Planning a geographical Investigation.
• Data collection.
• The use of documentary sources.
• Report planning.
• Analysis and presentation of results and conclusions.
The LC course is spread over 2 years. There is no particular order in which the work
must be done.
Core units 1, 2 and 3 are compulsory
Core Unit 1 - Patterns and processes in the Physical Environment
• To show a detailed understanding of the theory of plate tectonics.
• To understand how crystal structures are created, modified and destroyed by
the tectonic cycle.
• To explain and illustrate the continual process of rock formation, change and
destruction.
• To explain and illustrate how landforms develop from the interaction of the
tectonic cycle, rock cycle and surface forces.
• To illustrate how landforms represent a balance, through time, between
endogenic/internal and exogenic/external forces.
• To access at different scales, the impact of human activity on the physical
processes at work on the landscape.
• To understand and use the skills listed to interpret the physical environment.
Local, national and international settings should be used.
Core unit 2 - Regional Geography
• To explain and illustrate, at different scales, the concept of a region as
identified by selected criteria.
• To show a detailed understanding of how physical, economic and human
processes interact in Irish and European regions and in one continental/
sub continental region.
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