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    Geography Syllabus

    Marks : 200
    PAPER - I (Marks:100)
    Course Outline
    PHYSICAL AND GENERAL GEOGRAPHY
    1. Elements of Weather and Climate:
    Insolation and Atmospheric Temperature. Global Radiation and Heat Balance. Atmospheric
    Pressure and Winds. Humidity and Precipitation. Air Masses. Fronts and Atmospheric Disturbances.
    Classification of Climate and Climatic Regions.
    2. Landforms
    Major landforms, Rocks: origin, formation and classification. Internal Structure of the Earth. Earth
    quakes and Volcancity. Weathering. Mass Wasting. Erosion and Deposition. Cycle of Erosion.
    Landforms produced by Underground and Ground Water. Wind and Glaciers.
    3. Oceans
    Continental Margins and the Sea Floor. Distribution of Temperature and Salinity. Movements of the
    Ocean Water: Waves, Currents and Tides.
    4. Study of Maps
    Types of maps: Topographical Maps, Aerial Photographs. Weather Maps. Map Projections:
    classification and choice of projections. Merits and Demerits of Cylindrical. Conical and Zenithal
    Projections. Diagrams. graphs and Distribution Maps based on Statistical Data.

    PAPER - II (Marks: 100)
    HUMAN ECONOMIC AND REGIONAL GEOGRAPHY
    1. Human Geography
    Man and his Habitat : Concepts of Environmentalism and Possibilism. World Population-
    distribution, structure and growth (natural increase and migration). World, Society and Culture:
    races, languages and religions. levels of education and welfare. Settlementsrural and urban.
    characteristics and problems of urban places. Population/Resource Regions.
    2. Economic Geography
    Economic Activities : primary, secondary and tertiary. Primary Activity: agricultural systems
    subsistence, intensive, extensive, mechanized and mixed farming. Production. Distribution and
    Trade of Major Cereal and Non-Cereal Crops. Forests and Fisheries. Power Resources. Major
    Industries iron and steel, textiles and chemical industries. Politico-economic Relationship between
    the More Developed and Less Developed countries.
    3. Regional Geography
    Economic and Social Regions of the world. Regional Geography of South Asia with special reference
    to Pakistan under the following heads: Resource base (Human Physical and Economic) Transport.
    Trade andInternational Relations.
    Suggested Readings

    Title Author
    1. Physical Geography Lake, P.
    2. Physical Geography Strahler, A.N.
    3. An Introduction to Climate Trewartha, G.T.
    4. An Introduction to Map
    work and Practical
    Bygott J.
    5. Maps and Diagrams Monkhouse, F.J. &
    Wilkinson, H.R.
    6. Human Geography Deblij, H.J.
    7. Human Geography Bradford, M.G. & Kent,
    W.A.
    8. Population Geography Jones, H.R.
    9. Population Geography Clarke, J.I.
    10. Economic Geography Pounds, N.
    11. South Asia Jonson, B.L.C.
    12. An Introduction to South
    Asia
    Farmer, B.H.
    13. A Geography of Pakistan Kureshy, K.U.

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