ICSE Syllabus for Class 6 Geography 2024-25 Examination

The various topics and themes for ICSE Class 6 Geography Syllabus have been given. Students can find the main topics to be covered in the ICSE Class 6 Geography syllabus below:

Theme 1: Representation of Geographical Features contains Maps: introduction, difference between map, sketch, plan and globe, importance of maps.Direction: eight cardinal points. Landforms and Types of landforms have Mountains and Valleys: processes of formation of mountains and valleys – endogenous and exogenous processes. 4: Study of Continents, North America and South America, Boundaries, Major Physical features, Locating the above on the map (details given in the table below), Political divisions (countries and capitals to be covered through Atlas only)

A brief idea of the formation of continents. North America, Introduction, Location, Boundaries, Major Physical features, Mountains has Formation of Mountains, folding, meaning and characteristics of young fold mountains, distribution of Young Fold Mountains in the world – Rockies, Andes, Alps, Great Dividing Range, Himalayas and Atlas Mountains; Meaning and characteristics of Old Fold Mountains, distribution of old fold mountains in the world (Urals, Appalachians, Aravalis), – Faulting: meaning of faulting, formation and characteristics of Block mountains.– Importance of mountains.

– Volcanic mountains: formation and characteristics (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, Plateaus: formation and characteristics, types of plateaus (Intermontane and volcanic: definition and Examples), distribution in the world (The Deccan plateau in India, Tibet Plateau).Plains: formation and characteristics, types of plains (depositional and erosional: definition and Examples).

Landforms and people: Landforms – impact on the life of people. (comparison between life in the mountains and life in the plains), Theme 3: Minerals, Minerals and Ores (meaning and Examples),Locating the above on the map (details given in the table below).Political divisions (countries and capitals to be covered through Atlas only),  South America, Introduction, Location,  Types of minerals – metallic and non-metallic,  Metallic: Iron ore, bauxite, manganese, copper,  Non-Metallic: Lime stone, mica and mineral fuels (coal and petroleum) natural gas, Conservation of minerals, Theme