CBSE Class 12 English Journey to the end of the Earth MCQs Set 02

Question. What disturbed the silence of the continent?
(a) The birds
(b) the animals
(c) the humans
(d) Avalanches

Answer : D

Question. When do you know that the threat of global warming is very real?
(a) when you see the seals on ice floes
(b) when you see the austral light
(c) When you see glaciers retreating and ice shelves collapsing
(d) All of the options

Answer : C

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. What was the center of the Gondwana Supercontinent?
(a) Asia
(b) Pacific
(c) Antarctica
(d) All of the options

Answer : C

Question. What was the name of the Southern Super continent?
(a) Asia
(b) Asia Pacific
(c) Northern pole
(d) Gondwana

Answer : D

Question. 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

Answer : D

Question. 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

Answer : D

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 of the options

Answer : B

Question. What was the name of the Southern Super continent?
(a) Asia
(b) Asia Pacific
(c) Northern pole
(d) Gondwana

Answer : 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 of the options

Answer : 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 center of the Gondwana Supercontinent?
(a) Asia
(b) Pacific
(c) Antarctica
(d) All of the options

Answer : C

Question. Which programme aimed to take high school students to the end of the world?
(a) The author’s delight
(b) Teachers delight
(c) School program
(d) Geoff Green’s ‘Students on Ice’ programme

Answer : D

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. 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 the options

Answer : D

Question. What kind of atmosphere does Antarctica have?
(a) coldest
(b) driest
(c) windiest
(d) All of the options

Answer : D

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 of the options

Answer : C

Question. 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

Answer : D

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 was Gondwana?
(a) An ancient tourist place
(b) an ancient city in Antarctica
(c) An ancient super continent
(d) None of the options

Answer : C

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 of the options

Answer : A

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. 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 the options

Answer : A

Question. 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 telling the age of existence of human beings on the earth
(d) by exploring the world of ice

Answer : C

Question. Who is the author of the lesson?
(a) Tishani Doshi
(b) Kamla Das
(c) Jane Austen
(d) Chitra Das

Answer : A

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. 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 of the options

Answer : C

Question. What used to flourished on Antarctica years back?
(a) Animals
(b) Tigers
(c) Humans
(d) Fauna and flora

Answer : D