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Geography — India & World English Medium

India and world geography — chapter-wise mind maps built on NCERT facts, checked and updated against current official data.

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Chapter 1 Pass English Medium World Geography General Geography — Universe and Solar System Globe, latitude–longitude, time and the International Date Line; the Big Bang, galaxies, the life cycle of stars, black holes; asteroids and comets; the Sun, eight planets (latest NASA data), the Moon and eclipses. Open map Chapter 2 Pass English Medium World Geography Interior of the Earth and Rocks Sources of knowledge about the interior, sial-sima-nife and crust-mantle-core, discontinuities; Wegener's continental drift and its evidence, sea-floor spreading, plate tectonics; igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks, minerals, soil formation and the soil profile. Open map Chapter 3 Pass English Medium World Geography Earth Movements — Endogenic and Exogenic Forces Diastrophic forces — epeirogenic movements, folding and faulting; earthquake focus, waves, types and belts; volcanic materials, types and distribution; weathering and erosion, and the landforms of rivers, karst, wind, sea waves and glaciers. Open map Chapter 4 Pass English Medium World Geography Landform Diversity — Mountains, Plateaus, Plains Types of mountains and ages of mountain building; types of plateaus and the world's major plateaus; classification of plains; origins of lakes and the world's great lakes (updated figures); types of islands; causes, kinds and world distribution of deserts. Open map Chapter 5 Pass English Medium World Geography Climatology Composition and five layers of the atmosphere; insolation, heat budget, albedo; temperature distribution and inversion; pressure belts, planetary-periodic-local winds, jet streams; humidity, condensation, clouds, rainfall; air masses, fronts, temperate and tropical cyclones, anticyclones; Köppen’s climate classification. Open map Chapter 6 Pass English Medium World Geography Hydrosphere — Oceans, Tides and Currents How water is shared on Earth; the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian Oceans; the sea floor from shelf to trench; temperature and salinity; causes and types of tides; currents of the three oceans and El Niño; coral reefs and bleaching; marine resources and deposits; straits, coastlines and maritime zones. Open map Chapter 7 Pass English Medium World Geography Natural Regions The world’s major natural regions — equatorial, tropical monsoon, savanna, hot desert, steppe, Mediterranean, China type, west European, St Lawrence, taiga and tundra: extent, climate, vegetation, soils, local winds and people. Open map Chapter 8 Pass English Medium World Geography Continents of the World The seven continents in order of area and their records; landforms, rivers, climate, vegetation, resources and key countries of Asia, Africa, North and South America, Europe, Australia and Antarctica — with maps, chalkboard diagrams and updated figures. Open map Chapter 9 English Medium World Geography Economic Geography of the World Five sectors of occupation, gathering-hunting-herding, fishing grounds, types of farming and names of shifting cultivation, major crops, minerals, energy, industries, transport, the Suez and Panama canals and ports — with the latest (2024–25) producer rankings. Open map Chapter 10 Pass English Medium World Geography Human Geography — Origins, Population and Settlements Human origins and early humans; bases of racial classification and the three major groups; tribes of the world; cultural regions, religions and languages; population growth, distribution and density; migration; rural and urban settlements; the Human Development Report and its indices (with the latest data). Open map Chapter 11 Pass English Medium Indian Geography India — A General Introduction India’s latitudinal and longitudinal position, extreme points, standard time and the Tropic of Cancer; seven land neighbours and border states, the Radcliffe, McMahon and Durand lines, PoK and Sir Creek; the three maritime zones, channels, the new 2025 coastline, islands and the importance of India’s location. Open map Chapter 12 Pass English Medium Indian Geography Physical Structure of India India's rock systems (Archaean to Quaternary), the Himalaya's origin, ranges, peaks, glaciers and passes, the Peninsular Plateau and the Ghats, the Great Northern Plains, coastal plains (new coastline 11,098.81 km), island groups and lakes. Open map Chapter 13 Pass English Medium Indian Geography Drainage System of India Drainage types and patterns; the Indus, Ganga and Brahmaputra systems and their tributaries; Peninsular rivers, waterfalls, dams and canals; the river-linking plan and the Ken-Betwa link. Open map Chapter 14 Pass English Medium Indian Geography Climate of India Tropical monsoon climate and its controls, IMD's four seasons and local storms, the monsoon branches, the thermal, Flohn, jet-stream and El Niño theories, onset and breaks, rainfall distribution and variability, and Köppen's climatic regions. Open map Chapter 15 Pass English Medium Indian Geography Economic Geography of India Cropping seasons and types of farming; major crops from rice-wheat to tea-coffee-spices with their latest (2024-25) leading states; irrigation and the Green, Yellow, White and Blue revolutions; livestock, milk, eggs, fish; industries from iron-steel to IT and the eight industrial regions. Open map Chapter 16 Pass English Medium Indian Geography Soils and Vegetation India’s eight major soils — alluvial, black, red-yellow, laterite, arid, saline, peaty, forest; types, areas and control of soil erosion; natural vegetation from evergreen to mangrove; ISFR 2023 forest figures, forest policy and social forestry. Open map Chapter 17 Pass English Medium Indian Geography Energy Resources of India Coal (types, Gondwana and Tertiary fields, 2025 resources), petroleum and gas (oil regions, refineries, Pachpadra), nuclear energy (uranium, three stages, power stations), thermal and hydro power, rural electrification, solar and wind (2026 capacity), biofuels, biogas, hydrogen, geothermal and ocean energy. Open map Chapter 18 Pass English Medium Indian Geography Transport and Communication Roads (new highway numbering, NH-44, Golden Quadrilateral, expressways, PMGSY), railways (gauges, 18 zones, DFC, Konkan, USBRL, Vande Bharat, factories, metros), air (AAI, UDAN, GAGAN, airports), water (national waterways, 11,099 km coast, major ports, Sagarmala), pipelines, and post, telephone, radio, TV and satellite communication. Open map Chapter 19 Pass English Medium Indian Geography India: Census 2011 Final figures of Census 2011 — state-wise population, distribution, four phases of growth, density, sex ratio, literacy, age structure, Scheduled Castes and Tribes, district records, National Population Policy 2000 and the commission — with maps. Open map Chapter 20 English Medium Indian Geography Indian States and Union Territories India's 28 states and 8 union territories region by region — map, capital, formation, geography, minerals and industry, national parks and tribes for each; all changes from 2019 to 2026 (J&K-Ladakh, the Dadra-Daman merger, Amaravati, Sri Vijaya Puram). Open map Chapter 21 English Medium Geography · Environment & Ecology Ecology and Ecosystem Ecology and ecosystem defined, biotic and abiotic components, trophic levels, food chains and webs, the 10% law, productivity, ecological pyramids, water, nitrogen, carbon, phosphorus and sulphur cycles, niche, species interactions, population growth, succession and the biomes of the world. Open map Chapter 22 Pass English Medium Geography · Environment & Ecology Biodiversity Levels and measurement of biodiversity (α, β, γ), its value, the tropics, coral reefs and wetlands, India's 101 Ramsar sites, hotspots, loss and the IUCN Red List, national parks, sanctuaries and biosphere reserves, ex-situ conservation, the CBD, Ramsar and World Heritage conventions, and India's tiger, elephant and other projects (updated figures). Open map Chapter 23 Pass English Medium Geography · Environment & Ecology Environmental Pollution and Management Air, water, soil, noise, marine, thermal, radioactive, solid-waste, e-waste and space pollution — causes, effects, remedies; AQI, BOD, water-borne diseases; environmental management, EIA, Constitution and EPA 1986, ISO 14000 and Ecomark; institutions, movements from Chipko to Narmada, key figures and awards. Open map Chapter 24 Pass English Medium Geography · Environment & Ecology Climate Change The greenhouse effect and gases, the latest warming figures (IPCC AR6, WMO 2025) and impacts; ozone depletion and Montreal-Kigali; UNFCCC, Kyoto, COP-15 to COP-31, the Paris Agreement, GEF-GCF-REDD+; India's NDCs up to 2035, net zero 2070 and the eight NAPCC missions. Open map