Journey To The End of The Earth

JOURNEY TO THE END OF THE EARTH By Tishani Doshi
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS

1. What is the purpose of the journey to the world’s most preserved place,
Antarctica?
A) To tour the world.
B) To see the beauty of the earth.
C) To know the geography more closely.
D) To sensitize the young minds towards climatic change.
Ans: D
2. Why is a visit to Antarctica important to understand the effect of global
warming?
A) Because here one can see quickly melting glaciers and collapsing ice-shelves
B) Because it is filled with snow and ice
C) Because it is away from urban rush
D) None
Ans: A
3. Which programme aimed to take high school students to the end of the world?
A) The author’s delight
B) Teachers delight
C) School program
D) Geoff Green’s ‘Students on Ice’ programme
Ans: D
4. Why did Geoff decide to take high school students on the journey?
A) To make them tour the world
B) To make them enjoy
C) To make them feel relaxed
D) To make them understand their planet and respect it.
Ans: D
5. Why is Antarctica the right place to understand the past, present and future?
A) Because half million-year-old carbon records are trapped in its layers of ice.
B) Because of layers of ice
C) Because of cold
D) None
Ans: A
6. Why has the author called her journey as' Journey to the End of the Earth’?
A) Because it was too far
B) Because no human race or plants exist
C) Because it crosses nine time zones, six checkpoints, three water bodies and
many ecospheres to reach there.
D) All these
Ans: C
7. What was the name of the Russian research vessel?
A) Shokalskiy
B) Akademik Shokalskiy
C) Academic research
D) Akademik Scholar
Ans: B
8. What was Gondwana?
A) An ancient tourist place
B) An ancient city in Antarctica
C) An ancient supercontinent
D) None
Ans: C
9. What was the objective of the Students on the Ice program?
A) To make them travel
B) To make them see snow
C) To make them see white expanse in the form of ice
D) To enable them to think differently to save the planet
Ans: D
10. What disturbed the silence of the continent?
A) The birds
B) The animals
C) The humans
D) Avalanches
Ans: D
11. Why was the programme ‘Students on Ice’ a great success?
A) Because of its arrangements
B) Because of good travel facilities
C) Because of good food arrangements
D) Because of the life changing exposure to the youngsters
Ans: D
12. What kind of atmosphere does Antarctica have?
A) Coldest
B) Driest
C) Windiest
D) All these
Ans: D
13. Where does 90% of earth’s total ice exist?
A) Pacific region
B) Southern oceans
C) Northern pole
D) Antarctica Continent
Ans: D
14. Why is Antarctica completely pure?
A) Because of ice
B) because of avalanches
C) because of melting glaciers
D) because of non-existence of humans
Ans: D
15. If we want to know our earth, the human race and its past, present, and future
where should we go?
A) Northern Pole
B) Southern Pole
C) Gondwana
D) Antarctica Continent
Ans: D
SHORT ANSWER TYPE QUESTIONS
1. What advantages does a visit to Antarctica give?

A visit to Antarctica will give a grasp of where we have come from and where we could
possibly be heading. It will suggest the future possibilities through a study about the
future climate change easily and more effectively, make us witness and realize the
repercussions of environmental changes. So, if one wants to study and examine the
earth’s past in order to reason out the present problems and to extend the scope of
living for the future, one has to go to Antarctica.
2. What is Gondwana? What kind of lives existed there?
Six hundred and fifty million years ago there was a southern supercontinent. This
region, named Gondwana, was around the present day Antarctica. Human beings were
not there. There was a huge variety of flora and fauna. Then Dinosaurs became extinct
and mammals came to live. Continental Shift forced the landmass to separate and gave
it the present shape.
3. What is “students on ice”? What are its objectives?
“Students on Ice” is a programme headed by a Canadian Geoff Green. Initially, Geoff
Green was escorting celebrities to the ends of the word. Since the celebrities were
going there for the fun of it, there were no gains for mankind. They could give back only
in terms of money. So, Green decided to take high school students, who are the future
policy makers at an age when they are ready to absorb, learn and act. The trip hopes to
provide them with inspiring educational opportunities. These opportunities will help them
develop a new understanding and respect for our planet.
4. Why did Geoff Green decide not to take celebrities to the poles?
Geoff Green decided not to take celebrities to the poles because they could give back
“very little” in the form of monetary benefits only. They are past their prime and have
less time and energy to work for the betterment of the environment which is a major
concern. On the other hand, it will make way for students as they can give much more.
Students are the future of our planet who have the will and power to act for a better
world.
LONG ANSWER TYPE QUESTIONS
1. How could one say that Antarctica is the best class room?
Antarctica is a crucial element in the environmental debate, because it is the only place
where human population has not sustained and the ice-cores contain half million year
old carbon records. If one wants to examine the past and its relative effect on the
present and to extend the scope of the future Antarctica is the only place. A journey to
the poles provided a meaningful activity for school children. The occasional avalanches,
or calving ice sheets will make a person place himself in the context of earth’s
geological history. Antarctica expedition provides the students with inspiring educational
opportunities. It makes them develop a new understanding and respect for our planet.
The future generation of policy makers gets the life changing experience at an age
when they are ready to absorb, learn and act. A journey to the poles affects a person. It
is easy to talk about the melting of polar ice- caps sitting within the four walls of a
classroom, but when a person sees the glaciers retreating and ice-shelves collapsing,
they realize that the threat of global warming is very real.

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