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Q. How does visit to Antartica help to understand the effect of global warming?
  • (A) here one can see quickly melting glaciers and collapsing ice-shelves
  • (B) it is filled with snow
  • (C) it is away from urban rush
  • (D) it has hidden treasures
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (A) here one can see quickly melting glaciers and collapsing ice-shelves
Q. The geographical phenomena is going to help us to know the history of mankind_________.
  • (A) by showing the global warming
  • (B) by showing the imapacts of global warming
  • (C) by exploring the world of ice
  • (D) by telling the age of existence of human beings on the earth
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (D) by telling the age of existence of human beings on the earth
Q. Who is the author of the lesson Journey to the end of the Earth?
  • (A) Tishani Doshi
  • (B) Kamla Das
  • (C) Jane Austen
  • (D) Chitra Das
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (A) Tishani Doshi
Q. What is the meaning of ‘epiphany’?
  • (A) a moment of shock
  • (B) a moment of great sadness
  • (C) cacophony
  • (D) a moment of sudden and great revelation or realization
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✅ Correct Answer: (D) a moment of sudden and great revelation or realization
Q. The name of the programme that takes high school students to the end of the earth is ________.
  • (A) Students of Ice
  • (B) Students on Ice
  • (C) Students for Ice
  • (D) Students above Ice
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (B) Students on Ice
Q. What does the author mean by “In that short amount of time, we’ve managed to create quite a ruckus”?
  • (A) progress made by human race
  • (B) destruction and disturbance caused by human race
  • (C) stunning achievements of human race
  • (D) None of the above
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✅ Correct Answer: (B) destruction and disturbance caused by human race
Q. The synonym of ‘ubiquitous’ is __________.
  • (A) abstract
  • (B) complex
  • (C) omnipresent
  • (D) simple
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✅ Correct Answer: (C) omnipresent
Q. The Drake Passage was created because of _________.
  • (A) India drifting northwards
  • (B) South America drifting off to join North America
  • (C) North America drifting off to join South America
  • (D) India’s collision with Asia
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✅ Correct Answer: (B) South America drifting off to join North America
Q. Gondwana existed roughly around ___________.
  • (A) 110 million years ago
  • (B) 450 million years ago
  • (C) 250 million years ago
  • (D) 650 million years ago
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✅ Correct Answer: (D) 650 million years ago
Q. The narrator was aboard on the ship named ______.
  • (A) World carrier
  • (B) Academic Discovery
  • (C) Akademik Shokalskiy
  • (D) Denim Explorer
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✅ Correct Answer: (C) Akademik Shokalskiy
Q. What was the name of the Southern Super continent?
  • (A) Asia
  • (B) Asia Pacific
  • (C) Northern pole
  • (D) Gondwana
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✅ Correct Answer: (D) Gondwana
Q. What gives us an insight into the world’s geological history?
  • (A) Study of Northern Pole
  • (B) Study of Southern Pole
  • (C) Study of Antarctica Continent
  • (D) None of these
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (C) Study of Antarctica Continent
Q. Which program was the author a part of?
  • (A) Tour Program
  • (B) Students on Ice Program
  • (C) Research Program
  • (D) None of these
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (B) Students on Ice Program
Q. 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
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (D) because of non-existence of humans
Q. What used to flourished on Antarctica years back?
  • (A) Animals
  • (B) Humans
  • (C) Fauna and flora
  • (D) Tigers
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✅ Correct Answer: (C) Fauna and flora
Q. What kind of atmosphere does Antarctica have?
  • (A) coldest
  • (B) driest
  • (C) windiest
  • (D) All of these
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (D) All of these
Q. What was the center of the Gondwana Supercontinent?
  • (A) Asia
  • (B) Pacific
  • (C) Antarctica
  • (D) All of these
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (C) Antarctica
Q. How were the Himalayas formed?
  • (A) by a collapse in the Gondwana supercontinent
  • (B) by evolution
  • (C) by deforestation
  • (D) All of these
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✅ Correct Answer: (A) by a collapse in the Gondwana supercontinent
Q. How has the man created ruckus on the earth?
  • (A) by travelling
  • (B) by encroaching the earth
  • (C) by visiting the iceland
  • (D) None of these
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (B) by encroaching the earth
Q. What disturbed the silence of the continent?
  • (A) The birds
  • (B) the animals
  • (C) the humans
  • (D) Avalanches
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (D) Avalanches
Q. Why was Tishani Doshi filled with relief and wonder when she first set his foot on the continent?
  • (A) to see its white expanse
  • (B) to see its vastness and immense white expanse
  • (C) to see the isolation from the rest of the world
  • (D) All of these
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✅ Correct Answer: (D) All of these
Q. Where does 90% of earth’s total ice exist?
  • (A) Pacific region
  • (B) Southern oceans
  • (C) Northern pole
  • (D) Antarctica Continent
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (D) Antarctica Continent
Q. Where is the world’s geological history trapped?
  • (A) On Antarctica Continent
  • (B) On Asia Continent
  • (C) On Northern Pole
  • (D) On southern pole
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (A) On Antarctica Continent
Q. Which program was a life changing program?
  • (A) Tour and Travels
  • (B) Know your earth
  • (C) Students on Ice
  • (D) Know Antarctica
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (C) Students on Ice
Q. How does the geographical phenomena help us?
  • (A) how small changes cause big things to happen
  • (B) it makes us study
  • (C) it helps us to watch everything closely
  • (D) None of these
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (A) how small changes cause big things to happen
Q. 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
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (D) Antarctica Continent
Q. Who is the author of the lesson?
  • (A) Tishani Doshi
  • (B) Kamla Das
  • (C) Jane Austen
  • (D) Chitra Das
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (A) Tishani Doshi
Q. 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
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (D) to sensitize the young minds towards climatic change
Q. Why is a visit to Antartica 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
  • (C) because it is away from urban rush
  • (D) None of these
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (A) because here one can see quickly melting glaciers and collapsing ice-shelves
Q. Which programme aimed to take high school students to the end of the world?
  • (A) The author’s delight
  • (B) Geoff Green’s ‘Students on Ice’ programme
  • (C) Teachers delight
  • (D) School program
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (B) Geoff Green’s ‘Students on Ice’ programme
Q. Why is the 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 of these
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (B) because of layers of ice
Q. 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) crosses nine time zones, six checkpoints, three water bodies and many ecospheres to reach there.
  • (D) All of these
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (C) crosses nine time zones, six checkpoints, three water bodies and many ecospheres to reach there.
Q. Who was Geoff Green?
  • (A) Geoff was a Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society and The Explorers Club
  • (B) A scientist
  • (C) A traveller
  • (D) A tourist guide
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (A) Geoff was a Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society and The Explorers Club
Q. What was Gondwana?
  • (A) An ancient tourist place
  • (B) an ancient city in Antarctica
  • (C) An ancient super continent
  • (D) None
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (C) An ancient super continent
Q. 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
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (D) to enable them to think differently to save the planet

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Table of contents

  1. How does visit to Antartica help to understand the effect of global warming?
  2. The geographical phenomena is going to help us to know the history of mankind_________.
  3. Who is the author of the lesson Journey to the end of the Earth?
  4. What is the meaning of ‘epiphany’?
  5. The name of the programme that takes high school students to the end of the earth is ________.
  6. What does the author mean by “In that short amount of time, we’ve managed to create quite a ruc
  7. The synonym of ‘ubiquitous’ is __________.
  8. The Drake Passage was created because of _________.
  9. Gondwana existed roughly around ___________.
  10. The narrator was aboard on the ship named ______.
  11. What was the name of the Southern Super continent?
  12. What gives us an insight into the world’s geological history?
  13. Which program was the author a part of?
  14. Why is Antarctica completely pure?
  15. What used to flourished on Antarctica years back?
  16. What kind of atmosphere does Antarctica have?
  17. What was the center of the Gondwana Supercontinent?
  18. How were the Himalayas formed?
  19. How has the man created ruckus on the earth?
  20. What disturbed the silence of the continent?
  21. Why was Tishani Doshi filled with relief and wonder when she first set his foot on the continent?
  22. Where does 90% of earth’s total ice exist?
  23. Where is the world’s geological history trapped?
  24. Which program was a life changing program?
  25. How does the geographical phenomena help us?
  26. If we want to know our earth, the human race and its past, present, and future where should we go?
  27. Who is the author of the lesson?
  28. What is the purpose of The Journey to the world’s most preserved place, Antarctica?
  29. Why is a visit to Antartica important to understand the effect of global warming?
  30. Which programme aimed to take high school students to the end of the world?
  31. Why is the Antarctica the right place to understand the past, present and future?
  32. Why has the author called her journey as Journey to the End of the Earth’?
  33. Who was Geoff Green?
  34. What was Gondwana?
  35. What was the objective of the Students on the Ice program?