Unit 2: Global Climate — Vulnerability and Resilience
Topic 2.2: Consequences of global climate change Questions
Practice 20 exam-style questions for IB Geography Topic 2.2. Review the question stems below, then unlock the full Question Bank to access markschemes, model answers, and AI grading.
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Outline how extreme warming can change the albedo of a region.
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Outline one way a changing climate can threaten people's food and water security.
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Outline one way in which a changing climate alters how or when animals migrate.
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Explain how reliance on subsistence farming can make a rural population more vulnerable to climate change.
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Suggest two distinct health hazards that could result from climate change, developing each one.
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Suggest two ways in which climate change could shift the location or extent of biomes.
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Explain two reasons why richer people are usually less exposed to the harms of climate change.
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Richer people are usually less exposed to climate harm because they…
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As the climate warms, biomes such as forests tend to…
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Which groups suffer most from climate-health hazards?
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On the migration essay, the best approach is to…
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Suggest two ways governments could protect people's health from extreme heat.
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Suggest two human (not physical) factors that make a population more vulnerable to extreme weather, developing each.
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Give and develop two separate reasons why global warming can cause sea levels to rise.
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Explain two ways in which higher temperatures could increase health hazards for people.
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Sea levels rise as the planet warms mainly because of…
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Suggest two reasons why women in low-income countries can face greater risk from climate-change impacts, developing each.
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Suggest two ways that social differences between people can make some groups more vulnerable to climate change.
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