All the exercises and Question and Answers of the poem ‘Geography Lesson’ are given here. The exercises are from class 8 NCERT English Book ‘Honeydew’. Click here for summary, explanation of the poem ‘Geography Lesson’.
Geography Lesson Poem NCERT Solutions
Working with the poem
1. Find three or four phrases in stanzas one and two which are likely to occur in a geography lesson.
Ans. Examples of such phrases are:
- (i) Scaled six inches to a mile.
- (ii) Why the countries has cities where the river ran.
- (iii) Valleys were populated.
- (iv) Clearly delineated.
2. Seen from the window of an aeroplane, the city appears
(i) as haphazard as on ground.
(ii) as neat as a map.
(iii) as developed as necessary.
Mark the right answer.
Ans. (iii) as developed as necessary.
3. Which of the following statements are examples of “the logic of geography”?
(i) There are cities where there are rivers.
(ii) Cities appear as they are not from six miles above the ground.
(iii) It is easy to understand why valleys are populated.
(iv) It is difficult to understand why humans hate and kill one another.
(v) The earth is round, and it has more sea than land.
Ans. (i), (iii) & (v)
4. Mention two things that are :
(i) clear from the height.
(ii) not clear from the height.
Answer:
(i) clear from the height.
- water attracts man
- The earth is round, and it has more sea than land.
(ii) not clear from the height.
- Why men find reasons to hate each other
- Why men divide cities by building walls
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