GEOGRAPHY · CBSE Class 11 English medium
7 chapters · 51 topics
Chapter 1: INDIA – LOCATION
Chapter 2: STRUCTURE AND PHYSIOGRAPHY
Chapter 3: DRAINAGE SYSTEM
Chapter 4: CLIMATE
Chapter 5: NATURAL VEGETATION
Chapter 6: SOILS
Chapter 7: NATURAL HAZARDS AND DISASTERS
- C AUSES , C ONSEQUENCES AND M ANAGEMENT
- there are others like earthquakes, floods and
- in particular, are some such changes that are
- of human beings that accelerate or intensify
- from each other. Hence, it is necessary to
- minimised. And finally, significant changes
- natural disasters in the past sixty years in
- This was subsequently called the Yokohama
- C LASSIFICATION OF N ATURAL D ISASTERS
- calamities. In the following section, some of
- N ATURAL D ISASTERS AND H AZARDS IN I NDIA
- particularly in the mining areas, impounding
- Recently, some earth scientists have come up
- under the High Damage Risk Zone. Remaining
- effects on the area of their occurrence. Some of
- mitigation rather than curative measures
- deeper parts of sea. It is so because over deep
- and moist air that can release enormous
- difficult, mainly because of the fact that losses
- cyclone are
- settlements, agricultural fields, damaging
- Bangladesh, are frequent and equally
- because of the pattern of the monsoon and
- created by floods every year. How do these
- Agricultural Drought : It is also known as soil
- About per cent of the country’s total area is
- southern parts of Jharkhand and interior
- availability of fodder and water for the cattle
- due to landslides, are in general, far less
- High Vulnerability Zone : Areas that have
- States are safe as far as landslides are
- eruptions are more predictable in terms of the
- storms is largely due to high vulnerability of
- rehabilitation and recovery of victims. It
- building in order to cope up with future
- APPENDIX
- W ATER A VAILABILITY — B ASIN - WISE
- (Area in square km)
- G LOSSARY