ICSE Class 6 Geography Syllabus

• • Theme 1: Representation of Geographical Features
    1. Maps: introduction, difference between map, sketch, plan and globe.
    2. Importance of maps.
    3. Types of maps based on scale.
    4. Scale: meaning and uses.
    5. Direction: eight cardinal points.
    6. Symbols.
    7. Diagrams (with brief explanation): rivers, meander, anticline, syncline, tributaries, distributaries, delta, block mountain.

• • Theme 2: Landforms
    1. Types of landforms.
    2. Mountains and Valleys: processes of formation of mountains and valleys – endogenous and exogenous processes.
    3. Mountains:
       • Formation of Mountains, folding, meaning and characteristics of Young Fold Mountains.
       • Faulting – meaning of faulting, formation and characteristics of Block mountains; distribution of Block mountains in the world – Black Forest, Vosges, Vindhyas.
       • Importance of mountains.
       • Volcanic mountains: formation and characteristics; examples – Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa and Mt. Fujiyama in Japan.
    4. Valleys:
       • Formation and characteristics of Rift Valley.
       • Distribution of Rift Valleys in the world – Rhine, Narmada, Nile.
    5. Plateaus:
       • Formation and characteristics of plateaus.
       • Types of plateaus.
       • Distribution in the world – The Deccan plateau in India, Tibet Plateau, The East African Plateaus in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda; rich in mineral deposits; Location on world map.
    6. Plains:
       • Formation and characteristics of plains.
       • Types of plains.
       • Distribution of plains in the world – plains of North America, Gangetic plains of India; Location on world map.
    7. Landforms and people:
       • Impact of landforms on the life of people.
       • Comparison between life in the mountains and life in the plains.

• • Theme 3: Water Bodies
    1. Oceans:
       • Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean, Arctic Ocean, and Southern Ocean.
       • Characteristics of each ocean.
       • Importance of oceans.
    2. Sea:
       • Distribution of marginal and inland seas – Bering Sea, Caribbean Sea, North Sea, Black Sea, Caspian Sea, Aral Sea, Arabian Sea, Red Sea, and Dead Sea.
    3. Lakes:
       • Distribution of major lakes in the world.
       • Characteristics and importance of lakes – Baikal, Five Great Lakes of the U.S.A, Lake Omega, Lake Titicaca, Lake Victoria, and Chilka Lake.
    4. Rivers:
       • Distribution of major rivers in the world.
       • Characteristics and importance of rivers – Mackenzie, St. Lawrence, Mississippi, Amazon, Nile, Rhine, Danube, Indus, Ganga, Yangtze, Huang Ho, Ob, Murray.
    5. Causes of pollution of water bodies (in general).
    6. Locating the above on the world map.

• • Theme 4: Agriculture
    1. Introduction to different types of agricultural practices in the world.
    2. Subsistence Farming.
    3. Intensive Farming.
    4. Extensive Farming.
    5. Shifting Cultivation.
    6. Food crops and Cash crops – meaning with examples: wheat, rice, cotton, jute, sugarcane.
    7. Commercial Farming – meaning with examples.
    8. Plantation Farming – meaning with examples: tea, coffee, rubber.
    9. Locate major crop producing regions on the world map.
    10. Green Revolution – a brief idea of how the Green Revolution helped in agricultural development.

• • Theme 5: Minerals
    1. Minerals and Ores – meaning and examples.
    2. Types of minerals – metallic and non-metallic.
    3. Metallic minerals – Iron ore, uranium, bauxite, manganese, gold, silver, copper.
    4. Non-metallic minerals – Limestone, mica, and mineral fuels (coal, petroleum, natural gas).
    5. Types of mining.
    6. Conservation of minerals.
    7. Location of the above minerals on the world map.

• Theme 6: Study of Continents: North America and South America
  1. North America
     • Introduction
     • Location
     • Boundaries
     • Political divisions (countries and capitals)
     • Major Physical features
     • Locating the above on the map
     • Case Study: Lumbering in Canada
  2. South America
     • Introduction
     • Location
     • Boundaries
     • Political divisions (countries and capitals)
     • Major Physical features
     • Locating the above on the map
     • Case Study: Life in the Amazon River Basin