Location via proxy:   [ UP ]  
[Report a bug]   [Manage cookies]                
Scribd Logo
Upload

Welcome to Scribd!

  • 96 views

    Journey To End of Earth

    Uploaded by

    Dharani A
    The document discusses a journey to Antarctica and provides answers to questions about the expedition. It notes that Antarctica holds valuable geological records that provide insights into climate change and the evolution of life. The trip allows visitors to see how continents have drifted over millions of years. It also notes that including students on the expedition can foster environmental stewardship in future leaders. The visual experience of Antarctica is described as vast, from microbes to whales, within a silent landscape devoid of human structures.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    Journey To End of Earth

    Uploaded by

    Dharani A
    96 views2 pages
    The document discusses a journey to Antarctica and provides answers to questions about the expedition. It notes that Antarctica holds valuable geological records that provide insights into climate change and the evolution of life. The trip allows visitors to see how continents have drifted over millions of years. It also notes that including students on the expedition can foster environmental stewardship in future leaders. The visual experience of Antarctica is described as vast, from microbes to whales, within a silent landscape devoid of human structures.

    Original Title

    Journey to end of earth

    Copyright

    © © All Rights Reserved

    Available Formats

    PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    Did you find this document useful?

    Is this content inappropriate?

    The document discusses a journey to Antarctica and provides answers to questions about the expedition. It notes that Antarctica holds valuable geological records that provide insights into climate change and the evolution of life. The trip allows visitors to see how continents have drifted over millions of years. It also notes that including students on the expedition can foster environmental stewardship in future leaders. The visual experience of Antarctica is described as vast, from microbes to whales, within a silent landscape devoid of human structures.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Download as pdf or txt
    96 views2 pages

    Journey To End of Earth

    Uploaded by

    Dharani A
    The document discusses a journey to Antarctica and provides answers to questions about the expedition. It notes that Antarctica holds valuable geological records that provide insights into climate change and the evolution of life. The trip allows visitors to see how continents have drifted over millions of years. It also notes that including students on the expedition can foster environmental stewardship in future leaders. The visual experience of Antarctica is described as vast, from microbes to whales, within a silent landscape devoid of human structures.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Download as pdf or txt
    You are on page 1of 2

    JOURNEY TO THE END OF THE EARTH

    Short answer questions :


    1. The world’s geological history is trapped in Antarctica’. How is the study of this region
    useful to us?
    Answer:
    Antarctica holds half a million-year-old carbon track records in its layers of ice. It gives
    us an understanding of evolution and extinction, ozone and carbon. A visit to Antarctica,
    around which Gondwana once existed, is like going back to the past. Witnessing the
    geological phenomena, such as the drifting of land masses and their spreading into
    countries, help us to know about the history of humankind. These are visible signs of
    where humankind came from and it gives us a clear understanding of where human life
    is headed if we do not take care of the environment. Actually seeing with our own eyes
    all these changes, make us understand that global warming is a real threat.

    2. What are Geoff Green’s reasons for including high school students in the Students on Ice
    Expedition?
    Answer:
    Geoff Green feels that students are the future generation of policy-makers. They should
    be provided an opportunity to have this life-changing experience at a young age in order
    to foster a new understanding and respect for our planet. It would help them to absorb,
    learn and act for the benefit of the planet. The youngsters still have the idealism to save
    the world and they need to understand that it belongs to them. So, to sensitize them, it is
    important to provide them the visible life changing experience.

    3. How would you describe Gondwana?


    Answer:
    Gondwana was a giant amalgamated southern supercontinent, centering around
    present-day Antarctica. Humans had not arrived on the global scene. The climate was
    much warmer. There was a huge variety of flora and fauna. Gondwana thrived for 500
    million years. When the age of the mammals got underway, the landmass was forced to
    separate into countries. Antarctica separated from the whole landmass shaping the
    globe as we know it today.

    4. How, according to the author, has mankind etched its dominance over nature?
    Answer:
    According to the author, mankind has created a ruckus by their various activities
    like exploiting the limited resources ,careless burning of fossil fuels, increasing
    cities and megacities, cutting forests and turning those to concrete jungles,
    depleting ozone melting ice caps and shields. In the short span of existence on
    the earth, mankind has already created a blanket of carbon dioxide and increased
    the average global temperature.
    5. What is the visual experience in Antarctica?
    Answer:
    In Antarctica the visual scale ranges from the microscopic to the mighty midgets
    and mites to blue whales and icebergs as big as countries. The writer refers to it
    as walking into a giant ping-pong ball devoid of any human markers, without
    trees, billboards, buildings. Days go on in 24 hours austral summer light. A
    ubiquitous silence, interrupted only by an occasional avalanche or calving ice
    sheet consecrates the place.

    LONG ANSWER QUESTIONS:

    1. The author states that her Antarctic experience was full of epiphanies, but the best
    occurred just short of the Antarctic Circle of 65-55 degrees south? Explain.
    Answer:
    Epiphanies is a Christian festival that celebrates the revelation or enlightenment. Here
    epiphanies are used metaphorically to suggest moments when the author suddenly
    becomes conscious of something that is very important to her.

    The author experienced the rare of the rarest experiences there in Antarctica both in
    relation to beauty, wonder, and geological phenomena. Such masterly geological
    epiphany was experienced by her when the Akademik Shokalskiy got wedged into a
    thick white stretch of ice between the peninsula and Tadpole Island. The captain
    decided to turn around and asked the passengers to walk on the ocean. They kitted out
    in Gore-Tex and glares, walking on a white sheet of ice. Underneath their feet was a
    metre-thick ice pack. And underneath that, 180 metres of living breathing, saltwater lay
    before them. In the periphery, crabeater seals were stretching and sunning themselves
    on ice floes. They were doing so like stray clogs will do under the shade of a banyan
    tree. It was nothing short of revelation. The author saw in it that everything does indeed
    connect. This really proved to be the most wonderful experience of all experiences of
    Antarctica.

    2. What is the significance of the title ‘Journey to the End of the Earth’?

    more than one meaning- educational journey to Antarctica - 52 students -Akademik


    Shokalskiy-13:09 degrees North of Equator in Madras to the extreme south of the the
    earth -Another meaning --the earth is journeying to its end due to global warming

    You might also like