Short /Long Answer Type Questions
Question. What is Gondwana?
Answer :
- Six-fifty million years ago, a super continent existed present day Antarctica called Gondwana.
- Gondwana thrived for 500 million years. As mammals replace the dinosaurs the landmass separated into countries.
Question. What is Drake Passage?
Answer :
- The Drake Passage is a 100 km. wide strait.
- It is a passage to create a cold current that kept Antarctica very cold, uninhabited and at the bottom of the world.
Question. Which small thing does the writer refer as an important link in the ecological chain?
Answer :
- Microscopic Phytoplankton
Question. Describe the impact of Antarctica on the writer.
Answer :
- It was an amazing, alluring and mind boggling experience.
- Amazed to see the wide stretch of sea under the blue horizon. It was a place which has the history of mankind embedded deep into the layers of the ice.
- The sight of collapsing ice shields, breaking of ice-bergs and melting of ice was an eye opener.
- It made the author and his team aware of the dangers the future times are having in their folds.
- 2 What is the future of mankind and the planet as a whole with difference “to Journey to the end of the Earth?”
- Future of mankind appears dismal.
- Increase in population has led to a “ population boom.”
- Greatly depleted our resources of nature that destroyed forests and extinction of certain species of wildlife.
- Excessive burning of fossil fuels has created a blanket of carbon dioxide around the earth.
- Antarctic environment has been affected by global warming- this is clear from receding glaciers and collapsing ice shelves.
- These grave indications do not anger will for the future of mankind.
- Prognosis not good and may lead to total annihilation.
1. How does the author describe the Antarctica?
2. What do you mean by Ecosphere?
3. How did the author feel on reaching the Antarctica?
4. How was the world different six hundred million years ago?
5. “To visit Antarctica now is to be a part of that history”-which history does the author refer to?
6. Why do people lose all earthy sense of perspective and time in the Antarctica?
7. Why does the writer say that the prognosis for human beings is not good?
8. How has man managed to increase global warming?
9. Why should one go to Antarctica to study the earth’s past, and future?
10. How has Antarctica been able to retain its ‘pristine’ nature?
11. What is the aim of the programme students on ice?
12. What are the reasons behind the programmer’s success?
13. Antarctica is the place to see how little changes in the environment can have big repercussions? Comment
14. What are phytoplanktons? What implication does it have on the sustenance of the creatures on this earth?
15. What experience did the author have near the Antarctica circle?
16. “it was nothing short of a revelation everything does indeed connect”-what does the author refer to?
Long Questions.
1. The earth teaches us that if we take care of the small things big things will be taken care of. Explain this with reference to the “Antarctica”
2. We have been successful in increasing the global temperature. What are the consequences?
3. Why is Antarctica the place to go to unearth the mysteries surrounding human life?
4. Why does Tishani Doshi say that the youth have the idealism and strength to do a lot to save the earth?
5. Justify the title` Journey to the End of the Earth’
