Tamil Nadu Class 12 Geography Syllabus 2023-24: Check TN HSC Geography Syllabus

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• Water Matters Recap on water cycle and hydrosphere 
• Value and importance of water, now and in the future 
• Global water availability: quantity and quality 

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II

• Problems of Water Scarcity and pollution 
• Water supply and demand 
• Water extraction and salt water intrusion 
• Drinking water scarcity 
• Wastewater treatment 
• Land and water pollution 
• Land degradation

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• Water Ethics and Management
• Increasing water demand 
• Decreasing water quality 
• Water ethics and political gimmicks
• Water management

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IV

• Natural Hazards and Disasters Hazardous- nature of natural events and disasters brought on by them to humanity Hazards and society Disasters and society 
• Hazards and Disasters prevention and mitigation 
• Antidisaster planning

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• Human Evolution and Civilisations 
• Human evolution in stages
• Human civilizations: hearths and cultural realms 
• Poly-cultural world Gender in civilizations Ideas and tools

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• Human Potential: Realities of population explosion 
• Population growth and determinants, distribution 
• Age-Sex pyramids Population controls Marx and Malthus on population 
• Basic Minimum Needs

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• Global change Natural change, Greenhouse effect, Global warming Socio-Economic Globalisation, Liberalisation, Informatisation, Individualisation

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• Health and Family welfare 
• Family welfare and population planning water and health water supply and sanitation 
• Water – based, related and water-borne diseases HIV/AIDS, TB and Cancer Geography of health Entomology and epidermiology

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• The World in Distress 
• The unequal world 
• The stable world 
• The divisions 
• Economic development and 
• Emerging inequalities First, second and Third Worlds

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• The World in Distress The unequal world 
• The stable world 
• The divisions Economic development and Emerging inequalities First, second and Third Worlds

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• Towards One World
• The World in stress Disaster dilemmas
• North-South dilemma Poverty-Hunger dilemma Nuclear dilemma
• Terror dilemma How to create one world amidst dilemmas

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• The sustainable world Sustainable development First
• World and sustainable
• Development Third world and sustainable development 
• Agenda 21 Initiatives Traditional knowledge and Sustainable
• Development Participatory management
• Management transfers

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• Information Management Data, information explosion Internet, Intranet and Extranet Electronic mails and faxes
• Cyberspace management
• Knowledge markets and management

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• Geographical Information Systems and Global
• Positioning System
• Spatial, a spatial databases Relational database management systems (RDBMS) Vector, Raster GIS Integrated GIS GPS

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XV

• Spatial Analysis Maps and map analysis
• Mean centre Standard distance Shape indices

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XVI

• Diagrams Density gradients 
• Age-sex pyramids 
• Rank-size rule Contour diagrams on rapid, waterfall, valleys, plateaus, dissected plateau and passes

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XVII

• Fieldwork: Physical Environment A study of mountainous country: Bhutan A walk along a River: A coastal area study.

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• Fieldwork: human Environment Women in agriculture in Kollhills Traditional knowledge in practice in Kollihills Water supply, health and sanitation in Theni villages.

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