Short Question Answer: Geography Lesson | English Honeydew Class 8 PDF Download

Q1: What is the poet trying to bring out about human beings, the earth, and learning?
Ans: The poet is trying to bring out the fact that human beings have achieved a lot of knowledge about the earth and beyond. We have learned much about the earth, its shape, the emergence of cities and nations, but we have failed to learn how to love each other and live peacefully on this wonderful planet.

Q2: Mention two things that are
(i) clear from the height
(ii) not clear from the height.
Ans:
(i) From the height, it was clear why the country had cities where the rivers and why the valleys were populated. It was also clear that the earth was round and that it had more sea than land.
(ii) From the height, it was not clear why the men on the earth found reasons to hate each other. It was also not understandable why men had to build walls across cities and why they had to kill.

Q3: What was difficult to understand about the earth when the jet was six miles high?
Ans: It was difficult to understand why humans hate each other, build borders, walls, and create fences.

Q4: What geographic lessons did the poet in the jet learn when the jet just took off?
Ans: The city that humans have developed has not been well planned; it grew as per necessity.

Q5: Seen from the window of an aeroplane, the city appears
(i) as haphazard as on the ground
(ii) as neat as a map
(iii) as developed as necessary.
Mark the right answer.
Ans: (iii) as developed as necessary.

Q6: What was once most necessary for the emergence of a city in the past?
Ans: The easy availability of water for drinking and irrigation was the prime reason why civilizations flocked around rivers.

Q7: Find three or four phrases in stanzas one and two which are likely to occur in a geography lesson.
Ans: Some phrases that are likely to occur in a Geography lesson are "the city had developed the way it had," "it scaled six inches to the mile," "cities where the rivers ran," and "the valleys were populated."

Q8: 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), and (iv) are the correct statements.

Q9: What geographic lessons did the poet in the jet learn when the jet reached ten thousand feet?
Ans: From a height of ten thousand feet above the ground, the earth’s cities were found located on the banks of rivers and a little above the river level, in valleys.