Human Geography:
- Human habitat in major natural regions;
- The emergence of Man and Races of Mankind;
- Cultural evolution and stages;
- Major cultural realms, Growth, and Distribution of population;
- International migration;
- Demographic Transition and contemporary population problems.
Notes of Human Geography:
Human habitat in major natural regions;
- How human settlements developed in the natural regions.
- Human adaptation in Major Natural Regions:
- Equatorial Region
- Tropical Desert Region
- Savanna Regions or tropical Grasslands
- Tropical Deciduous Forest
- Tundra and Taiga region
The emergence of Man and Races of Mankind;
- Geo chronological order of evolution of mankind.
- From north and east Africa to other parts of the world.
- Monkey to apes to Homosapiens
- Races of Humankind
Cultural evolution and stages;
- Morgon and Taylor's Cultural evolution stages:
- Three basic Evolution stages:
- Savagery,
- Barbarism
- Civilization
- Evolution of social changes.
Savagery:
Timeline: 2 million to 12000 years.
Use of fire, fishing, hunting, bow, and arrow.
Siblings marriage prohibited.
Barbarism:
12000 to 5000 years.
Clan, community development.
Plant and animals domestication
Iron uses
Civilization:
5000 to today
Political state, religion, social class, caste, etc.
International migration;
- Cause and Consequence of International migration
- Trends of International Migration
- Types of international migration:
- Climate Migration
- Forced migration
Demographic Transition and contemporary population problems.
- Demographic Transition Theory
- Population problems:
- With the present rate of population growth, the next 200 years, the world population would be 150 billion, this unsustainable population will leads to either birth rate down or death rate up.
- Food, potable water shortage.
- Clean air problems
- Depletion of most of the natural resources.
- Pollution, widespread of diseases
Question asked in UP PCS 2018:
Present on an account of chief human race groups identified in the world.
Discuss briefly the factors affecting population distribution with reference to developed and developing countries in the world.
Explain the recent trend of international migration.
Question asked in UP PCS in 2017:
- The present classification of Human races
- Mention the major culture realm of the world and describe any one of them.
- How for demographic Transition Theory is successful in explaining the pattern of growth of the population of India. Explain with example.
Expected Geography Mains Questions for UPPSC-UP PCS 2020:
- Human habitat in major natural regions;
- Cultural evolution and stages;[ V.imp]
- Major cultural realms,
- Contemporary population problems.
For Your Practices:
- Provide a broad classification of world cultural regions.
- “Indo-Gangetic hearth is considered to be one of the world’s richest cultural realms.” Examine.
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