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ï»¿Who is the author of the lesson?

1. Tishani Doshi
2. Kamla Das
3. Jane Austen
4. Chitra Das

✅ Correct Answer: 1

What does the lesson revolve around?

1. It revolves around the world
2. tourism
3. children and their tour
4. the worldâ€™s most preserved place, Antarctica

✅ Correct Answer: 4

What is the purpose of The Journey to the worldâ€™s most preserved place, Antarctica?

1. to tour the world
2. to see the beauty of the earth
3. to know the geography more closely
4. to sensitize the young minds towards climatic change

✅ Correct Answer: 4

How will the geographical phenomena help us to know the history of mankind?

1. by telling the age of existence of human beings on the earth
2. by showing the global warming
3. by showing the imapcts of global warming
4. none

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Why is a visit to Antartica important to understand the effect of global warming?

1. because here one can see quickly melting glaciers and collapsing ice-shelves
2. because it is filled with snow
3. because it is away from urban rush
4. None

✅ Correct Answer: 1

What is there in Antarctica?

1. man's history
2. snow's history
3. geographical history
4. Geological history

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Which programme aimed to take high school students to the end of the world?

1. The author's delight
2. Teachers delight
3. School program
4. Geoff Green's 'Students on Ice' programme

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Why did Geoff decide to take high school students on the journey?

1. to make them tour the world
2. to make them enjoy
3. to make them feel relaxed
4. to make them understand their planet and respect it.

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Why is the Antarctica the right place to understand the past, present and future?

1. because half million-year-old carbon records are trapped in its layers of ice.
2. because of layers of ice
3. because of cold
4. none

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Why did the author visit Antarctica?

1. to have a better understanding of the planet
2. Â to see the white expanse
3. to enjoy the cold weather
4. none

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Why has the author called her journey as Journey to the End of the Earth'?

1. because it was too far
2. because no human race or plants exist
3. crosses nine time zones, six checkpoints, three water bodies and many ecospheres to reach there.
4. All these

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Why is Antarctica a restricted place?

1. because it's too cold
2. because of no life
3. because of snow
4. to protect the environment

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Who was Geoff Green?

1. Geoff was a Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society and The Explorers Club.
2. A scientist
3. A traveller
4. A tourist guide

✅ Correct Answer: 1

How many years back were India and Antarctica part of the same landmass?

1. 100 million years back
2. 300 million years ago
3. 200 million years ago
4. 400 million years ago

✅ Correct Answer: 2

What was Gondwana?

1. An ancient tourist place
2. an ancient city in Antarctica
3. An ancient super continent
4. None

✅ Correct Answer: 3

What wondered Tishani Doshi?

1. Beauty of the place
2. white expanse
3. Beauty of balance on the earth
4. None

✅ Correct Answer: 3

What was the objective of the Students on the Ice program?

1. to make them travel
2. to make them see snow
3. to make them see white expanse in the form of ice
4. Â to enable them to think differently to save the planet

✅ Correct Answer: 4

What are the important indications of the future of human kind?

1. melting glaciers
2. depleting ozone layer
3. increasing global warming
4. All these

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Why was Tishani Doshi filled with relief and wonder when she first set his foot on the continent?

1. to see its white expanse
2. to see its vastness and immense white expanse
3. to see the isolation from the rest of the world
4. All these

✅ Correct Answer: 4

What were the writer's feelings on reaching the continent?

1. of relief and amazement
2. tired and fatigued
3. sad
4. none

✅ Correct Answer: 1

What disturbed the silence of the continent?

1. The birds
2. the animals
3. the humans
4. Avalanches

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Why was the programme 'Students on Ice ' a great success?

1. because of its arrangements
2. good travel facilities
3. good food arrangements
4. because of the life changing exposure to the youngsters

✅ Correct Answer: 4

How has the man created ruckus on the earth?

1. by travelling
2. by encroaching the earth
3. by visiting the iceland
4. none

✅ Correct Answer: 2

What is phytoplankton?

1. Oceas
2. Southern oceans
3. Microscopic grasses
4. Â None

✅ Correct Answer: 3

How were the Himalayas formed?

1. by a collapse in the Gondwana supercontinent
2. by evolution
3. by deforestation
4. All these

✅ Correct Answer: 1

What does the author compare the running and stretching of crabs to?

1. to melting glaciers
2. to avalanches
3. to stray dogs
4. Â None

✅ Correct Answer: 3

What was the center of the Gondwana Supercontinent?

1. Asia
2. Pacific
3. Antarctica
4. All these

✅ Correct Answer: 3

What are the reasons of increasing global tempratures?

1. cutting of trees
2. human activities
3. increasing pollution
4. All these

✅ Correct Answer: 4

What kind of atmosphere does Antarctica have?

1. coldest
2. Â driest
3. windiest
4. All these

✅ Correct Answer: 4

How old are the records trapped in the layers of ice on Antarctica?

1. 1 million year old
2. 2 million years old
3. half million-year-old carbon records
4. All these

✅ Correct Answer: 3

What used to flourished on Antarctica years back?

1. Animals
2. Tigers
3. Humans
4. Fauna and flora

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Where does 90% of earth's total ice exist?

1. Pacific region
2. Southern oceans
3. Northern pole
4. Antarctica Continent

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Why is Antarctica completely pure?

1. Because of ice
2. because of avalanches
3. because of melting glaciers
4. because of non-existence of humans

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Where is the world's geological history trapped?

1. on southern pole
2. On Northern Pole
3. on Asia Continent
4. On Antarctica Continent

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Which program was the author a part of?

1. Tour Program
2. Research Program
3. Students on Ice Program
4. None

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Which program was a life changing program?

1. Tour and Travels
2. Know Antarctica
3. Know your earth
4. Students on Ice

✅ Correct Answer: 4

What gives us an insight into the world's geological history?

1. Study of Northern Pole
2. Study of Southern Pole
3. Study of Antarctica Continent
4. None

✅ Correct Answer: 3

How does the geographical phenomena help us?

1. how small changes cause big things to happen
2. Â it makes us study
3. it helps us to watch everything closely
4. none

✅ Correct Answer: 1

What was the name of the Southern Super continent?

1. Asia
2. Asia Pacific
3. Northern pole
4. Gondwana

✅ Correct Answer: 4

If we want to know our earth ,the human race and its past,present,and future where should we go?

1. Northern Pole
2. Southern Pole
3. Gondwana
4. Antarctica Continent

✅ Correct Answer: 4

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