MCQ Chapter 3 Journey to the end of the Earth Class 12 English

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Journey to the end of the Earth MCQ Questions Class 12 English

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Question. Why is Antarctica completely pure?
A) because of non.existence of humans 
B) because of avalanches
C) because of melting glaciers
D) Because of ice

Answer

A

Question. 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.

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D

Question. 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. The
D) All these

Answer

C

Question. What were the writer’s feelings on reaching the continent?
A) of relief and amazement
B) tired and fatigued
C) sad
D) noneA

Answer

A

Question. Which programme aimed to take high school students to the end of the world?
A) The author’s delight
B) Teachers delight
C) Geoff Green’s ‘Students on Ice’ programme 
D) School program

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C

Question. Where is the world’s geological history trapped?
A) on southern pole
B) On Northern Pole
C) on Asia Continent
D) On Antarctica Continent

Answer

D

Question. What disturbed the silence of the continent?
A) The birds
B) Avalanches 
C) the humans 
D) the animals

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B

Question. How will the geographical phenomena help us to know the history of mankind?
A) by showing the imapcts of global warming 
B) by showing the global warming
C) by telling the age of existence of human beings on the earth
D) none

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C

Question. Which program was the author a part of?
A) Tour Program
B) Research Program
C) Students on Ice Program
D) None

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C

Question. How has the man created ruckus on the earth?
A) by travelling
B) by encroaching the earth
C) by visiting the iceland
D) none

Answer

B

Question. 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

Answer

A

Question. Why is Antarctica a restricted place?
A) because it’s too cold
B) because of no life
C) because of snow
D) to protect the environment

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D

Question. 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 these

Answer

D

Question. 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

Answer

A

Question. What is the purpose of The Journey to the world’s most preserved place, Antarctica?
A) to tour the world
B) to sensitize the young minds towards climatic change 
C) to know the geography more closely
D) to see the beauty of the earth

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B

Question. What does the author compare the running and stretching of crabs to?
A) to melting glaciers
B) to avalanches
C) to stray dogs
D) None

Answer

C

Question. What was the center of the Gondwana Supercontinent?
A) Asia
B) Antarctica 
C) Pacific
D) All these 

Answer

B

Question. What is there in Antarctica?
A) man’s history
B) snow’s history
C) geographical history
D) Geological history

Answer

D

Question. 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

Answer

A

Question. What was Gondwana?
A) An ancient tourist place
B) an ancient city in Antarctica
C) An ancient super continent
D) None

Answer

C

Question. 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

Answer

B

Question. Why was the programme ‘Students on Ice ‘ a great success?
A) because of its arrangements
B) good travel facilities
C) good food arrangements
D) because of the life changing exposure to the youngsters

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D

Question. What does the lesson revolve around?
A) It revolves around the world
B) tourism
C) children and their tour
D) the world’s most preserved place, Antarctica

Answer

D

Question. What was the name of the Southern Super continent?
A) Gondwana 
B) Asia Pacific
C) Northern pole
D) Asia

Answer

B

Question. Why did the author visit Antarctica?
A) to have a better understanding of the planet
B) to see the white expanse
C) to enjoy the cold weather
D) none

Answer

A

Question. How many years back were India and Antarctica part of the same landmass?
A) 100 million years back
B) 300 million years ago
C) 200 million years ago
D) 400 million years ago

Answer

B

Question. 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

Answer

D

Question. What are the reasons of increasing global tempratures?
A) cutting of trees
B) human activities
C) increasing pollution
D) All these

Answer

D

Question. What wondered Tishani Doshi?
A) Beauty of the place
B) white expanse
C) Beauty of balance on the earth
D) None

Answer

C

Question. What was the objective of the Students on the Ice program?
A) to enable them to think differently to save the planet 
B) to make them see snow
C) to make them see white expanse in the form of ice
D) to make them travel

Answer

A

Question. What are the important indications of the future of human kind?
A) melting glaciers
B) depleting ozone layer
C) increasing global warming
D) All these

Answer

D

Question. Who is the author of the lesson?
A) Tishani Doshi
B) Kamla Das
C) Jane Austen
D) Chitra Das

Answer

A

Question. Where does 90% of earth’s total ice exist?
A) Pacific region
B) Southern oceans
C) Northern pole
D) Antarctica Continent

Answer

D

Question. Which program was a life changing program?
A) Tour and Travels
B) Know Antarctica
C) Know your earth
D) Students on Ice

Answer

D

Question. How were the Himalayas formed?
A) by a collapse in the Gondwana supercontinent
B) by evolution
C) by deforestation
D) All these

Answer

A

Question. How old are the records trapped in the layers of ice on Antarctica?
A) 1 million year old
B) 2 million years old
C) half million.year.old carbon records
D) All these

Answer

C

Question. 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

Answer

C

Question. What kind of atmosphere does Antarctica have?
A) coldest
B) driest
C) windiest
D) All these

Answer

D

Question. What is phytoplankton?
A) Oceas
B) Southern oceans
C) Microscopic grasses
D) None

Answer

C

Question. What used to flourished on Antarctica years back?
A) Animals
B) Fauna and flora 
C) Humans
D) Tigers

Answer

B

Journey to the end of the Earth MCQ Questions Class 12 English