🗺️ CUET Geography (Section II)

Chapters

1. Human Geography — Nature and Scope
   Geography studies the earth as the home of human beings, and from its beginning it has had two halves: physical geography, which studies the physical environment, and…
2. The World Population and Human Development
   People are the most important resource of a country: they use the earth’s resources, they produce, and they are what development is for. This chapter takes the world…
3. Primary Activities — Gathering, Pastoralism, Agriculture and Mining
   Primary activities depend directly on the environment: they use the earth’s resources — land, water, vegetation, building materials and minerals — as they are found.…
4. Secondary Activities — Manufacturing and Its Location
   Secondary activities add value to natural resources by transforming raw materials into valuable products: cotton becomes yarn and cloth, iron ore becomes steel and…
5. Tertiary and Quaternary Activities — Services, Knowledge and Decision-Making
   Tertiary activities are services: they produce a commercial output of service rather than a tangible good. A plumber, a teacher, a doctor, a shopkeeper and a truck…
6. Transport, Communication and International Trade — the World
   Transport and communication are what turn separate places into one connected world: they move people, goods and ideas from where they are produced to where they are…
7. India — Population and Human Settlements
   The second book begins with India’s people. As per the 2011 Census, India had about 1,210 million people — the second largest population in the world at that census —…
8. Land Resources and Agriculture in India
   Land is a finite resource, and in India a very large share of the population still depends on it for a livelihood. This chapter begins with how land is used — the nine…
9. Water Resources — Use, Problems and Conservation
   Water is a cyclic resource, but the amount of fresh water usable at any one time is limited. India holds about 4 per cent of the world’s water resources while supporting…
10. Mineral and Energy Resources of India
    India’s varied geology gives it a wide range of minerals, most of them in the old rocks of the peninsular plateau, and its energy comes from both exhaustible fuels and…
11. Planning, Sustainable Development and Environmental Problems in India
    Development changes the land it happens on, and not always for the better. This chapter joins two parts of the second book. The first is planning: sectoral and regional…
12. Transport, Communication and International Trade — India
    A country as large as India holds together through its networks: roads and railways across the plains and plateaus, waterways and sea routes along its coasts, air links…

Practise CUET Geography (Section II): mock tests and previous-year questions

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