Journey to the End of the Earth — 20 MCQs | CBSE Class 12 English Core (Code 301)

Chapter Overview

Doshi joins Geoff Green's 'Students on Ice' programme aboard the Russian vessel Akademik Shokalskiy bound for Antarctica. Standing on the white silence, she senses 650 million years of geological time and reads in collapsing ice-shelves the warning signs of climate change. Antarctica, she finds, holds the past, present, and future of our planet in a single visit.

Key Themes

Climate change as urgent reality
Geological deep time
Phytoplankton as base of food chain
The 'two weeks' that change perspective
Gondwana supercontinent history

Key Concepts

Akademik Shokalskiy

Russian research vessel

Geoff Green

Founder of Students on Ice programme

Gondwana

Ancient supercontinent that included Antarctica

Phytoplankton

Microscopic base of polar food chain

Climate evidence

Ice shelves collapsing; midnight sun

Sample MCQs

Q1. On which vessel did Tishani Doshi travel to Antarctica?

A. The HMS Beagle

B. Akademik Shokalskiy, a Russian research vessel

C. The MS Endurance

D. The RMS Titanic

Doshi joined the 'Students on Ice' programme aboard the Russian vessel Akademik Shokalskiy.

Q2. What is the role of phytoplankton in the polar food chain?

A. They are the apex predators

B. They are at the base of the food chain — sustaining most polar life

C. They are decomposers only

D. They are absent in polar regions

Phytoplankton are microscopic organisms at the base of the polar food web — sustaining krill, fish, seals and whales above.

Journey to the End of theEarth

Journey to the End of the
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