CDS Geography · Free chapter-wise notes
CDS Geography Notes
7 chapters of CDS Geography, written to be taught from directly or read alone. No chapter assumes you have read the others, so start wherever you are weakest. The question counts below are live, straight from the bank.
Chapters
Earth in Space, Maps and Coordinates
Theories of the Earth's origin, the planets, syzygy, the Earth's shape and spin, latitude, local time from longitude, and isolines and map diagrams.
19 PYQs · 2 subtopicsEarth's Structure, Landforms and Geological Time
The Earth's layers, plates and earthquake waves, volcanoes and rocks, weathering and soils, landforms by agent, and natural hazards.
57 PYQs · 5 subtopicsClimatology, Atmosphere and Weather
The gases and layers of the air, ozone, insolation and temperature inversion, pressure belts, winds and cyclones, humidity and clouds, and Koppen's climate types.
55 PYQs · 5 subtopicsOceanography
The ocean floor, salinity, coral reefs, tides, the forces behind ocean currents, warm and cold currents, El Niño and the Sargasso Sea.
20 PYQs · 2 subtopicsWorld and Human Geography
Continents, islands and latitude lines, straits, ports and rivers, countries and their borders, world biomes and farming, and population, cities and industry, taught as tables from 56 CDS questions.
56 PYQs · 5 subtopicsIndian Geography — Physical Features
India's location and borders, islands, mountains and plains, rivers, lakes, monsoon, soils and forests, taught as map tables built from 103 CDS questions.
103 PYQs · 8 subtopicsIndian Geography — Economy, Resources and Transport
Resources and land use, farming and crops, minerals, power and industry, population, tribes and languages, migration and towns, and roads, railways, waterways and ports.
86 PYQs · 8 subtopics