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    Geoff Green takes high school students on the 'Students on Ice' program to Antarctica to experience the continent firsthand and inspire them to help address climate change issues. The author describes her two-week stay in Antarctica as a chilling prospect but also a moment of revelation when she first set foot on the continent and was filled with relief and wonder at its vast, pristine whiteness. However, the author notes that the prognosis for humans is not good, as our destruction and disturbance of the environment through climate change has created quite an impact in a short time. Antarctica is crucial to climate change debates as changes there, like quickly melting glaciers, show the effects of global warming.

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    Geoff Green takes high school students on the 'Students on Ice' program to Antarctica to experience the continent firsthand and inspire them to help address climate change issues. The author describes her two-week stay in Antarctica as a chilling prospect but also a moment of revelation when she first set foot on the continent and was filled with relief and wonder at its vast, pristine whiteness. However, the author notes that the prognosis for humans is not good, as our destruction and disturbance of the environment through climate change has created quite an impact in a short time. Antarctica is crucial to climate change debates as changes there, like quickly melting glaciers, show the effects of global warming.

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    Geoff Green takes high school students on the 'Students on Ice' program to Antarctica to experience the continent firsthand and inspire them to help address climate change issues. The author describes her two-week stay in Antarctica as a chilling prospect but also a moment of revelation when she first set foot on the continent and was filled with relief and wonder at its vast, pristine whiteness. However, the author notes that the prognosis for humans is not good, as our destruction and disturbance of the environment through climate change has created quite an impact in a short time. Antarctica is crucial to climate change debates as changes there, like quickly melting glaciers, show the effects of global warming.

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    DPS GOMTINAGAR EXTN.

    LUCKNOW
    GRADE: XII
    SUBJECT: ENGLISH
    TOPIC: L3-JOURNEY TO THE END OF THE EARTH (VISTAS)
    A. Answer the following questions in 30-40 words:
    1. What are Geoff Green’s reasons for taking high school students on the ‘Students on
    Ice’ programme?
    2. Why does Tishani Doshi describe her two weeks’ stay in Antarctica ‘a chilling
    prospect’?
    3. Why is Antarctica a crucial element in all debates on climate change?
    4. What are the reasons for the success of the ‘Students on Ice’ programme?
    5. Describe the author’s emotions when she first set foot on Antarctica?
    6. What does Tishani Doshi mean when she says, “And for humans, the prognosis isn’t
    good”
    7. Tishani Doshi describes Antarctica as a giant __________ .
    8. What is the importance of the phytoplanktons in Antarctica?
    B. Tick the correct options:
    1. What is the meaning of ‘epiphany’?
    (a) a moment of shock
    (b) a moment of great sadness
    (c) cacophony
    (d) a moment of great revelation or realization
    2. What does the author mean by “In that short amount of time, we’ve managed to create
    quite a ruckus”?
    (a) progress made by human race
    (b) destruction and disturbance caused by human race
    (c) outstanding achievements of human race
    (d) All of the above
    3. The other word for ‘ubiquitous’ is __________.
    (a) abstract
    (b) complex
    (c) omnipresent
    (d) simple
    4. The Drake Passage was created because of _________.
    (a) India drifting northwards
    (b) South America drifting off to join North America
    (c) North America drifting off to join South America
    (d) India’s collision with Asia
    5. Gondwana existed roughly around ___________.
    (a)550 million years ago
    (b)450 million years ago
    (c)250 million years ago
    (d) 650 million years ago
    6. Why is Antarctica completely pristine?
    (a) Because of ice
    (b) because of avalanches
    (c) because of melting glaciers
    (d) because of non-existence of humans
    7. What was the centre of the Gondwana Supercontinent?
    (a) Asia
    (b) Pacific
    (c) Antarctica
    (d) All these
    8. What disturbed the silence of the continent?
    (a) The birds
    (b) the animals
    (c) the humans
    (d) Avalanches and calving ice sheets
    9. Why was Tishani Doshi filled with relief and wonder when she first set foot on the
    continent?
    (a) to see its immense white expanse
    (b) to see its vastness
    (c) to see its isolation from the rest of the world
    (d) All these
    10. 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
    11. 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) because she crossed nine time zones, six checkpoints, three water bodies and many
    ecospheres to reach there.
    (d) All these
    12. 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 it is frigid and pristine
    (d) none of the above
    13. Why is a visit to Antarctica 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 above
    14. Where is the world’s geological history trapped?
    (a) on southern pole
    (b) On Northern Pole
    (c) in Asia
    (d) in Antarctica
    15. Where does 90% of earth’s total volume of ice exist?
    (a) Pacific region
    (b) Southern oceans
    (c) Northern pole
    (d) Antarctica

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