GEOGRAPHY (PASS) [ CODE -49] SYLLABUS
GEOGRAPHY (PASS) [ CODE -49]
A. Geo-Tectonics:
1) Earth’s Crust (Composition and Layering);
2) Rocks (Origin, Types and Characteristics);
3) Folds and Faults (Types and Landforms);
4) Mountain Building and Plate
Tectonics,
5) Earthquakes (Causes and Effects) and Volcanoes.
B. Geomorphology:
1)Weathering;
2)Mass Wasting; Landform and Process
3)(Fluvial, Glacial, Wind, Karst , Marine);
4) Normal Cycle of Erosion;
5) Rejuvenation.
C. Oceanography:
1) Continental Shelf and Slope;
2) Ocean Current;
3) Topography of Ocean Floor;
4) Ocean Deposits;
5) Resources of the Oceans;
6) Salinity and Temperature of ocean water.
D. Climatology:
1) Composition of the Atmosphere;
2) Elements and Factors of Climate;
3) Insolation;
4)Heat Belts;
5)Pressure Belts;
6)Planetary Wind System;
7)Cyclones;
8)Monsoon.
E. Biogeography:
1)Soils (Factors and Processes of 2)Formation, Soil Profile, Physical and 3)Chemical Properties)
4)World Soil Groups (Zonal, Azonal and Intra-Zonal);
5)soil Erosion and Conservation;
6)Plants (Factors of Plant Growth, Major 7)types of Natural Vegetation)
8)Forest conservation.
F. Environmental Geography:
1)Ecosystem (Principles and Components, 2)Energy Flow, Food Chain, Food Web and
3) Bio-geochemical Cycles);
4) Environmental Degradation and
5) Conservation; Meaning of Natural Environment;
6) Man-Environment Relationship;
7) Natural Regions and Environmental Adaptation of Human Life,
8) Economy and Society.
G. Economic Resources:
1) Classification and Significance;
2) Activity Components of Resource
3) Utilization (Lumbering, Dairy Farming, Fishing, Mining, power generation, Agriculture and Industry).
H. Human Resource:
1)Population(Growth, Distribution, Age-Sex Composition, Migration Occupational composition , Comparison between developed and developing nations).
I. Regional Geography of India:
1)Relief;
2) Drainage;
3) Climate; Soil;
4) Forest resources,
5) Power resources,
6) Mineral Resources;
7) Irrigation,
8) Agriculture,
9) Industry,
10) Population;
11) Trade and Transport,
12) Basis of Regional divisions of India (Physical and Economic).
J. Statistical and Cartographic
Techniques:
1) Scale;
2) Cartographic Techniques of
3) Representation;
4) Topographical Map;
5) Map Projection;
6) Statistical Techniques.
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