Class-12th
Subject-English
Date- 22/07/2020
Day- Wednesday
Topic-
Very Short Type Q-Ans. Of ‘Journey to the End of the Earth’
3.
Journey to the End of the Earth (Tishani Doshi)
Very Short Type
Q-Ans.
Q.
1 Who is the writer of the essay, ‘Journey to the end of the Earth’?
Ans.
Tishani Doshi
Q.
2 Which journey does the writer describe in ‘Journey to the End of the Earth’?
Ans.
Journey to Antarctica
Q.
3 From where did the writer’s journey start?
Ans.
From Madras
Q.
4 For how many hours did the writer travel for reaching Antarctica?
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More than one hundred hours
Q.
5 Which creatures were wiped out sixty million years ago?
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Dinosaurs
Q.
6 Why do people visit Antarctica?
Ans.
To know the earth’s past and future
Q.
7 How long has there been civilization on this earth?
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For 12000 years
Q.
8 What is the result of man’s progress?
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Pollution
Q.
9 What is the reason for the rise in the earth’s temperature?
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Greenhouse effect
Q.
10 What is the best place for studying the effect of global warming?
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Antarctica
Q.
11 Who headed the programme ‘Students on Ice’?
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Geoff Green
Q.12
On which programme was the writer working?
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Students on Ice
Q.
13 What was the name of the giant super continent which existed six hundred and
fifty million years ago?
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Gondwana
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14 Which two continents were once part of the same landmass?
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India and Antarctica
Q.
15 How many years ago were the dinosaurs wiped out.
Ans.
about fifty million years ago
Q.
16 How many students were the part of the programme ‘Students on Ice’?
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52 students