IB Geography review games
Ready-made review sets for the IB Geography core, all seven options and the HL core extension: 26 sets and 366 questions, to play as a class game on the projector. Free to host, and students join with a code.
Response that cuts greenhouse gas emissions or enhances carbon sinks?
- Adaptation
- MitigationRight answer
- Resilience
- Vulnerability
The units and options
Every IB Geography student studies the core, Units 1 to 3, and a choice of options from A to G, which are the same at both levels: SL students study two options and HL students three. HL students also study the HL core extension, Units 4 to 6. Sets for the core and the options are marked SL and HL, because they suit every Geography student; sets for Units 4 to 6 are marked HL. Each unit and option has two sets.
SL and HL core
- Unit 1: Changing populationPopulation change, migration, ageing and population policies.2 sets · 28 questions
- Unit 2: Global climate—vulnerability and resilienceThe greenhouse effect, climate change, vulnerability and responses.2 sets · 28 questions
- Unit 3: Global resource consumption and securityFootprints, energy security, the nexus and resource stewardship.2 sets · 28 questions
Options
- Option A: FreshwaterDrainage basins, hydrographs, flooding, water scarcity and management.2 sets · 30 questions
- Option B: Oceans and coastal marginsOcean currents, El Niño, coastal processes and managing the sea.2 sets · 30 questions
- Option C: Extreme environmentsDrylands, glacial and periglacial landscapes, and how they are managed.2 sets · 29 questions
- Option D: Geophysical hazardsPlate tectonics, earthquakes, volcanoes, mass movement and hazard risk.2 sets · 29 questions
- Option E: Leisure, tourism and sportTourism and sport, from local facilities to global destinations.2 sets · 26 questions
- Option F: Food and healthMeasuring hunger and health, food systems and the spread of disease.2 sets · 28 questions
- Option G: Urban environmentsUrban land use, urban change, urban stresses and sustainable cities.2 sets · 28 questions
HL core extension
- Unit 4: Power, places and networksGlobal power, flows of trade, investment and aid, and trade barriers.2 sets · 28 questions
- Unit 5: Human development and diversityMeasuring development, financing it, and cultural change.2 sets · 27 questions
- Unit 6: Global risks and resilienceGeopolitical, economic and environmental risks, and resilience.2 sets · 27 questions
Why review with a game
Answering from memory does more for recall than rereading notes, and a game gets the whole class answering, not just the students with a hand up. Every question in these sets is short: a description, and the term, model or figure it describes. Geography answers depend on precise terms that sit close together, such as infiltration and percolation, mitigation and adaptation, or a refugee and an internally displaced person, and a quick game shows whether students can tell them apart. Each unit and option has two sets, so you can play the pair for the option your class takes, or the core sets before a test.
How a class plays
- Open a set and press Host a game. Pick it from a unit or option above and choose a game mode. You don't need an account to host.
- Put the room code on the projector. It comes with a QR code that opens the game on a phone.
- Students join with the code and their first name. They go to splycr.com on a phone, tablet or laptop. No student accounts, nothing to install.
A free account lets you copy a set to edit it, write your own, and set it as homework.
Eight ways to play the same set
Boss BattleThe whole class fights one boss. Right answers hit it, wrong ones heal it.
RacerEach right answer moves you forward. Play solo or in teams.
KaboomAnswer right to pass the bomb on. Hold it when it goes off and your points go to everyone else.
SabotageRight answers earn coins and cards that freeze, steal, swap or shield.
ThroneOne student holds the throne and the rest of the class tries to take it.
SplycrQuick-fire questions. A streak stacks your multiplier up to three times.
CryoA frozen arena of frost charges. Answer a question to reload.
OutbreakA first-person zombie arena for laptops. Answer right to get back in.
Questions teachers ask
Do students need an account?
No. Students join with the code on the board and their first name, from any browser. There is nothing to install.
Is it free?
Hosting a game is free, with or without an account, and so is an account. Only generating new questions with the question generator uses credits; these sets are already written.
Which syllabus do the sets follow?
The IB Geography guide first assessed in 2019: the three core units, Changing population, Global climate (vulnerability and resilience) and Global resource consumption and security; the seven options, from A Freshwater to G Urban environments; and the three units of the HL core extension. Each unit and option has two sets, named by the unit or option and the part of it they cover.
What kind of questions are they?
Short recall questions: a description, and the term, model or figure it describes, such as the lag time on a storm hydrograph or a dependency ratio worked out from three round numbers. They are for retrieval practice and vocabulary review, not exam-style practice for the data-response and essay questions in the papers.
Are the sets SL or HL?
The core and option sets are marked SL and HL, because they suit every student: SL and HL students study the same core, Units 1 to 3, and the options are the same at both levels, though SL students study two options and HL students three. The sets for Units 4 to 6, the HL core extension, are marked HL.
Where do the questions come from?
They were written for the splycr library by Biology by Bradford, unit by unit against the IB Geography guide. Each question plays as multiple choice, with three wrong options written for that question, many of them the term it is most often confused with, such as percolation for infiltration or the Modified Mercalli scale for the moment magnitude scale.
Is this an official IB resource?
No. The sets follow the structure of the IB Geography guide, but splycr is not affiliated with or endorsed by the International Baccalaureate.
Teaching ESS or a science too? The library has sets for these courses as well.