Physical Geography

6 notes tagged Physical Geography.

• Geography

  The Indian Monsoon, Made Simple

  What drives the south-west monsoon and why rainfall varies so sharply by region, set inside the wider chapter: global pressure belts and jet streams, how tropical cyclones form and get their names, and the real mechanics of dew, fog and the three rainfall types.

• Geography

  Physical Geography Essentials

  The Earth's layered interior, Wegener's evidence for continental drift and how plate tectonics finally explained it, the boundaries and named plates behind mountain building, plus the ocean current, isotherm and rock-property facts UPSC keeps testing.

• Geography

  India's Drainage Systems and Mineral Resources

  River basins, the multipurpose dams built on them and the National Perspective Plan's river interlinking programme, the three mineral belts holding most of India's iron and bauxite, and the major-minor minerals trap.

• Geography

  Himalayan and Peninsular Drainage Systems

  India's Himalayan and Peninsular rivers differ in age, origin and behaviour: named tributaries, drainage patterns and the Indo-Brahma theory explained.

• Geography

  Physiographic Divisions of India

  India's physiographic units: the Himalaya's four ranges, the Deccan's lava origin, and why the two coasts and two island groups genuinely differ.

• Geography

  Lakes and Waterfalls of India

  How India's lakes formed, tectonic, glacial, oxbow, crater and lagoon, and the named waterfalls UPSC tests, sorted by river, state and defining feature.