This is the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) Social Science geography textbook for Class VI, The Earth Our Habitat. It is an English medium (Roman script) book — the complete text, exercises and captions are in English. It is the prescribed geography component of the Class 6 social science course for CBSE schools and for state boards that follow the NCERT curriculum.
Geography at Class 6 level begins with the largest possible frame and narrows down. The book opens with the Earth's place in the solar system, moves to the globe and the grid of latitudes and longitudes, then to the Earth's rotation and revolution and what they produce — day and night, and the seasons. From there it turns to maps and how to read them: the difference between a map and a globe, scale, direction and conventional symbols. The second half moves from the general to the specific — the four major domains, the major landforms, and then India: its physical divisions, climate, natural vegetation and wildlife.
What makes this book useful beyond the school classroom is the same thing that makes it useful inside it. The explanations are short, the vocabulary is controlled, and the fundamental concepts of physical geography — the grid system, motions of the Earth, landform formation — are introduced without shortcuts. That is why aspirants preparing for UPSC, RPSC and RSSB examinations are routinely told to read the NCERT geography books from Class 6 onwards before touching any standard reference work. The concepts a candidate must be fluent in at the examination hall are set out here for the first time, in their simplest form.
Each chapter ends with exercises, and the text is supported throughout by diagrams, photographs and maps. The "Do You Know" boxes carry additional facts that frequently reappear as objective questions in competitive examinations.
Key Features:
English medium book — complete content written in English (Roman script)
Published by NCERT (National Council of Educational Research and Training)
Social Science — Textbook in Geography for Class VI (Class 6)
Prescribed for CBSE schools and state boards following the NCERT curriculum
Covers The Earth in the Solar System
Covers Globe: Latitudes and Longitudes
Covers Motions of the Earth — rotation, revolution, day and night, seasons
Covers Maps — types, scale, direction and conventional symbols
Covers Major Domains of the Earth
Covers Major Landforms of the Earth
Covers Our Country — India
Covers India: Climate, Vegetation and Wildlife
Diagrams, photographs and maps throughout
Chapter-end exercises and "Do You Know" fact boxes
Simple, controlled language suitable for Class 6 students
Also widely used as foundation reading for UPSC, RPSC, RSSB and other competitive examinations
Standard NCERT text — the base book before any reference or guide
यह पुस्तक राष्ट्रीय शैक्षिक अनुसंधान और प्रशिक्षण परिषद (NCERT) द्वारा कक्षा VI (कक्षा 6) के लिए निर्धारित सामाजिक विज्ञान — भूगोल की पाठ्यपुस्तक The Earth Our Habitat है। ध्यान दें: यह पुस्तक पूर्णतः अंग्रेज़ी भाषा एवं रोमन लिपि में है — इसमें हिन्दी भाषा का प्रयोग नहीं है। इसमें सौरमंडल में पृथ्वी, ग्लोब — अक्षांश एवं देशांतर, पृथ्वी की गतियाँ, मानचित्र, पृथ्वी के प्रमुख परिमंडल, प्रमुख स्थलरूप, हमारा देश भारत तथा भारत की जलवायु, वनस्पति एवं वन्य जीवन जैसे अध्याय सम्मिलित हैं। सरल भाषा, चित्र, आरेख एवं मानचित्रों के साथ भूगोल की आधारभूत अवधारणाएँ यहाँ पहली बार स्पष्ट रूप से प्रस्तुत की गई हैं। यही कारण है कि UPSC, RPSC एवं RSSB जैसी प्रतियोगी परीक्षाओं की तैयारी करने वाले अभ्यर्थियों को किसी भी मानक संदर्भ पुस्तक से पूर्व कक्षा 6 से NCERT भूगोल पढ़ने की सलाह दी जाती है। विद्यालयी परीक्षा एवं प्रतियोगी परीक्षा — दोनों के लिए यह आधार पुस्तक है।
