External Evaluation of the European Baccalaureate (Annexes)

Elective Unit 5 - Patterns and processes in the Human Environment
• To show a detailed understanding and be able to illustrate how
population characteristics change over time and space and impact
on human development.
• To assess and evaluate the varying impact of population
movements.
• To examine in detail patterns of rural and urban settlement.
• To identify and analyse the differing scale of problems associated
with the growth of urban centres.
• To use the skills listed to examine the dynamic nature of
population and the pattern and distribution of settlement.
Local, national and international settings to be used.
OPTIONS
Students should choose from ONE of four Options.
Optional Unit 6 - Global Interdependence.
Optional Unit 7 - Geoecology.
• To evaluate the differing views of development and
underdevelopment.
• To show a detailed understanding of the interdependent nature of the
Global economy.
• To assess the impact of current economic patterns on developing
economies or regions.
• To discuss human development as a focus for change.
• To examine the idea of sustainable development as a model for the
future.
• To use the skills listed to examine the interdependent nature of global
economic, social and political processes to challenge the differing
views of development.
Optional unit 8 - Culture and identity
Local, national and international settings to be used.
• To explain and illustrate the development of soils.
• To describe the combination of processes affecting soil
characteristics.
• To assess the inter relationship between soils and climates
resulting in Biomes or global regions where plants and animals
have adapted to specific environmental conditions.
• To examine and evaluate the impact of human activities on
biomes. To use the skills listed to examine the inter relationships,
on a global scale, between soils, climates, plants and animals.
Local, national and international settings to be used.
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