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Summary

Geography Class 01

## Geography(6:15 PM)

- Cosmology includes Galaxies, stars, Sun, and Earth.
- Physical Geography includes  Geomorphology, Climatology, Oceanography, and Biogeography.
- Economic geography includes  Resouces, Agriculture, Industries, and Transportation.
- Social or Human Geography includes the Population, Settlement, and Culture of people.
- An ecological aspect includes Ecosystems, Biomes, Types of vegetation, biodiversity, Pollution, etc.

## Syllabus of geography(6:27 PM)

- ***Prelims:***
- Indian and World Geography - Physical, Social, Economic Geography of India and the World.
- ***Mains:***
- Salient features of the world’s physical geography.
- Distribution of key natural resources across the world (including South Asia and the Indian sub-continent); factors responsible for the location of primary, secondary, and tertiary sector industries in various parts of the world (including India).
- Important Geophysical phenomena such as earthquakes, tsunamis, Volcanic activity, cyclones, etc., geographical features and their location changes in critical geographical features (including water-bodies and ice-caps) and flora and fauna and the effects of such changes.

## PYQ sample discussion (6:47 PM)

## Sources and reference for geography (7:09 PM)

- Have limited sources.
- ***Primary NCERTs:***
- Fundamental of Physical geography.
- India: Physical environment.
- Fundamental of Human geography.
- India people and economy.
- GC-Leong.
- Total geography of 10th class ICSE.
- Class notes(main source).
- VisionIAS value-added material.

## Mapping (7:20 PM)

- ***Locations to be remembered:***
- Static location.
- Current affair-based location.
- Atlas.

## Earth, solar system, and Universe (7:51 PM)

- Geography is made up of two words Geo+Graphy which means the description of the earth.
- The term geography was coined by Eratosthenes a greek philosopher called the father of geography.
- Geography is the study of places and relationships between people and their environment.
- ***The shape of the earth:***
- The earth is Flattened at the pole and bulged at the equator.
- It is due to the continuous rotation of the earth.
- This shape is called a geoid or oblate spheroid.
- Neuton proposed this for the 1st time and said the same applies to other planets too.

## The topic for the next class: The Shape of the Earth, longitude, and latitude.