Geography Lesson - Worksheets

CBSE WorkSheet 01
Geography Lesson

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1. What is the poem Geographic Lessons all about? Answer in the context of Geography Lesson.
2. What lesson of Geography did the poet learn when he flew above his city?
3. What did the poet apprehend from a height of ten thousand feet? Answer in the context of Geography Lesson.
4. What geographic lessons did the poet in the jet learn when the jet reaches ten thousand feet? Answer in the context of Geography Lesson.
5. Read the extract given below and answer the following questions:
   that the men on the earth found
   causes to hate each other, to build
   walls across cities and to kill.
   From that height, it was not clear why.
   1. What did the poet understand from that height?
   2. What did he not understand?
   3. What does the phrase building walls mean?
6. Read the extract given below and answer the following questions. (1x5 = 5)
   When the jet reached ten thousand feet,
   it was clear why the country
   had cities where the rivers ran
   and why the valleys were populated.
   The logic of geography that
   land and water attracted man -
   was clearly delineated
   when the jet reached ten thousand feet.
   1. How much height did the jet attain?
   2. What became clear as the jet attained that height?
   3. What became obvious on seeing the city from that height?
   4. Name the poet of the poem from which these lines have been extracted.
      1. Ted Hughes
      2. TS Eliot
      3. Rabindranath Tagore
      4. Zulfikar Ghose
   5. What attracted a man?
      1. Country
      2. Cities
      3. Land and water
      4. Hills and valleys

CBSE WorkSheet 01
Geography Lesson

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Solution

1. The poem “Geographic Lessons” by Zulfikar Ghose is all about the way earth looks from different altitudes. Here the poet has used the image of a jet aeroplane to portray this representation of the earth in a very clear way.
2. As the poet flew in a jet, he noticed that the cities below were not properly planned. He could see why it was so. From a height of 10,000 feet he noticed that valleys were populated. It was quite reasonable and understandable. It was the compulsion of geography that people should settle down in places with flat land and plenty of water and food. It is quite illogical why people hate and kill one another. It is greatly inhuman.
3. From the height of ten thousand feet, the poet could apprehend the fact that the cities grew water resources. Water fulfilled necessities like agriculture, transport, business, and others. He found that valleys were populated which met the necessities of the people.
4. The moment the jet reaches ten thousand feet, the geographic lessons it had learned was that 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, on valleys.
5. 1. From ‘that height’, the poet could understand how the cities developed.
   2. The poet could not understand why people on the earth quarrelled. He could also not understand why they separate themselves from their fellow beings.
   3. The phrase ‘building walls’ indicates man’s desire to segregate.
6. 1. The jet attained a height of ten thousand feet.
   2. As the jet attained the height of ten thousand feet it became clear why cities had developed near the flowing rivers.
   3. From that height, it became obvious to the poet that land and water were essential for habitation and that's why all major cities were near rivers.
   4. Zulfikar Ghose is the poet.
   5. Land and water attracted man.