Geography: Important Topics for IAS

Geography:

This is for India and the World
combined.
1. Climatic and Vegetative Zones
2. Ocean Currents
3. Wind systems
4. Clouds, Cyclones, Tornadoes,
Typhoons etc
5. Earthquakes and Tectonics
6. World Map study
7. Revolution, Rotation, Tides
8. Physical geography - formations
etc
9. India - Physical - mountains and
rivers etc
10. ENSO La Nina cyclonic
11. Interior, structure of the earth--
crust, mantle, core and
Discontinuties
12. Volcanoes--types(shield,
composite, caldera,flood) and
landforms--batholiths,lacoliths,
dykes etc
13. Sea floor spreading concept,
ocean floor divison-- continental
shelf, continental slope, plain,
deeps
14. Continental drift vs Plate
tectonics concept
15. Rocks--igneous, sedimentary,
metamorphic, Rock cycle
16. Geomorphic processes--
exogenic, endogenic, diastrophism
17. Mass movements-- slow (creep,
solifuction etc), rapid (earthflow,
mudflow, avalanche), Landslides
18. Soil formation, various
landforms--erosional, depositional
( deltas, point bars, meanders, etc)
19. structure of atmosphere--tropo,
strato, meso, thermo, exo
20. Heat budget, distribution of
temperature, inversion of
temperature
21. wind circulation--ITCZ, Air
masses, fronts
22. Dew vs frost vs fog vs mist;
types of rainfall-- convectional,
orographic, cyclonic

23. Drought in Disaster
Management (Maharashtra drought)
24. NMIZ
25. Water conservation - Rainwater
harvesting, drip irrigation
26. Indian climate (Monsoon)
27. Arctic and Antarctica - potential
threats, differences
28. Brahmaputra river and map
related to those areas
29. Mangroves, corals, wetlands in
India - locations and features
30. Himalayan glaciers ( Melting of
Himalayas is a concern now. I
mentioned somewhere else too. )
31. Western Ghats
32. Industrial corridors - Delhi-
Mumbai Corridor, Eastern Corridor,
Green energy corridor
33. Coastal Erosion in India
(Recently a report released)
34. Inland water ways (6th one
proposed in budget)