APSC Prelims 2020 GS Paper – Suggest Topics for Geography Section
Tribals of various regions
- Tribes of India and North East especially, Tribes of Assam & NE, Gond
- A & N Tribes, Himalayan mountains of South Asia, Bru
Physical Geography – Oceanography
- Currents, Tides, Estuaries, Gulf Stream, Humboldt Current, Pressure Belts, Wind Types
- Polar Vortex, Cold Wave, El-Nino, La-Nina, South Oscillation or ENSO, Tropical Monsoon
Climatology – tropical cyclone, temperate cyclone, Distribution of temperate cyclone in the world
- temperate vs. tropical cyclones, Pressure Belts, Polar Vortex, Cold Wave, El-Nino, La-Nina
- South Oscillation or ENSO, Tropical Monsoon, Equator regions, recent Cyclones
- Köppen climate classification, Climate types – Forest – Flora
- Pressure Belts, Polar Vortex, Cold Wave, El-Nino, La-Nina
- South Oscillation or ENSO, Tropical Monsoon
Climatology – Rain formation & types
- Precipitation – rainfall classification, Conventional , Orographic, Frontal, Cyclonic and Monsoonal Rainfall, Rain formation process, Cloud types, Cyclone types
- Longitudes & latitudes, Equator, Latitudes and Earth speed = 15° an hour
- Tropic of Cancer & Tropic of Capricorn 23½° North & Southern Hemisphere, Arctic Circle & Antarctic Circle 66½° North & South of the equator, Timezones and Dateline, Prime Meridian
- Indian standard time
Assam & NE – Rivers, mountains, NP/WS
Caves in North East India – Meghalaya – KremLiatPrah, Meghalaya
Biodiversity – resources
- Fauna & Flora, Tropical & Temperate Trees, Animals
- Assam – Flora & Fauna
- Contribution of biodiversity, Various organism – role in environment cleaning
- Bioremediation, Biodegradation, Environment – Forest
- different types of forests – Locations, Tropical forest – subcategories, Temperate forest
- boreal forests (taiga), Mangroove, ISFR 2017
Political Geography
- International Borders of India and neighbours,
- Assam & States borders
Human Geography
- Census 2011, Population growth – India & Assam
- demographic statistics of India & Assam
- Health Indicators – MMR (Assam Highest), IMR, Birth Rate
- HDI – India & Assam ( Among other states – rank)