Syllabus for Research Eligibility Test (ret)-2009

Sub: Geography

GEOTECTONICS

Plate Tectonics; Types of Folds and Faults and resultant landforms; Types of Earthquake and impact.

GEOMORPHOLOGY

Fundamental Concepts; Weathering and Mass Wasting; Fluvial Processes and Landforms; Cycle of Erosion (Davis, Penck, King and Hack); Interruption in normal cycle of erosion.

CLIMATOLOGY

Nature and Composition of atmosphere; Global warming and its consequences; Tropical disturbances with special reference to thunderstorms and tornado; El Nino and La Nino.

ECOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENT

Components of Environment; Basic principles of Ecology; Food Chain; Food Web and Energy Flow; Biodiversity.

REMOTE SENSING AND GIS

Digital Image Processing and Classification; Raster and Vector Data Model; Spatial and Attribute Data.

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

Meaning and objectives of Research; Fundamental Vs Applied research; Mode of Geographic explanation – cognitive morphometric, temporal, cause and effect, functional, ecological system analysis; scientific method in geography; Research processes – problem identification; literature search, specification of aims and objectives, generating hypothetic research questions and sample design.

Nature and sources of data; Method of data collection – questionnaire preparation and selection of respondents; Processing and analysis of data; Correlation and regression analysis; Principal component analysis; Factor analysis; Tests of significance; Hypothesis testing.