12 exam-style questions with model answers, plus 16 quick multi-choice questions — every question on the site for this standard, grouped by the 4 pages of notes they come from.
Write a full answer before you reveal the model one — that comparison is where the marks come from. Every block links back to the notes that teach it.
Identify a geographic topic at a global scale and explain why it meets the standard's definition.
Explain in detail why your chosen topic is global, and why a similar topic at a smaller scale would not meet the standard.
Fully explain, showing insight, why the scale at which a pattern is described changes what can be explained about it.
Describe the global pattern of your chosen topic.
Describe the global pattern in detail, including how the activity varies along and between the belts.
Fully explain, showing insight, what the shape of a global pattern reveals before any cause is proposed.
Explain the factors and/or processes that cause the global pattern you have described.
Explain in detail how the process behind your pattern accounts for the variation both between belts and along a single belt.
Fully explain, showing insight, how the causes of your pattern link together to produce the whole distribution rather than its parts.
Explain the significance of your chosen global topic for people.
Explain in detail why the same global pattern has very different significance for people in different places.
Fully explain, showing insight, the significance of your global pattern for people.