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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.