Class - 12th
Subject - English
MCQ - Test
Ch.3 - Journey to the End of the Earth
1. 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) because half million-year old carbon records are trapped in its layer of ice
Answer: because here one can see quickly melting glaciers and collapsing ice-shelves
2. What is phytoplankton?
a) southern ocean
b) northern ocean
c) microscopic gasses
d) rivers
Answer: microscopic grasses
3. Who was Geoff Green?
a) Geoff was a Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society and The Explorers Club
b) a doctor
c) a scientist
d) a teacher
Answer: Geoff was a Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society and The Explorers Club
4. What disturbed the silence of the continent?
a) humans
b) animals
c) avalanches
d) birds
Answer: avalanches
5. What do you understand by 'flora and fauna'?
a) birds and animals
b) trees and animals
c) vegetations and animals
d) fruits and birds
Answer: vegetations and animals
6. On which programme was the working writer?
a) Ice on students
b) Students on Ice
c) Ice at Students
d) Students at Ice
Answer: Students on Ice
7. What is the best place for studying the effect of global warming ?
a) America
b) Antarctica
c) Greenland
d) Switzerland
Answer: Antarctica
8. What is the reason for the rise in the earth's temperature ?
a) greenhouse effect
b) green effect
c) greenhouse affect
d) green affect
Answer: greenhouse effect
9. From where did the writer's journey start ?
a) from Karnal
b) from Yamunanagar
c) from Delhi
d) from Madras
Answer: from Madras
10. What is the result of man's progress ?
a) solution
b) tuition
c) valuation
d) pollution
Answer: pollution
11. 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
Answer: because of the life changing exposure to the youngsters
12. If we want to know our earth ,the human race and its past,present,and future where should we go?
a) Northern Pole Gondwana
b) Southern Pole
c) Godwana
d) Antarctica Continent
Answer: Antarctica Continent
13. Why do people visit Antarctica ?
a) to know about sun
b) to know about moon
c) to know about the earth
d) to know about the trees
Answer: to know about the earth
14. Which creatures were wiped out 60 million years ago ?
a) elephants
b) tigers
c) dinosaurs
d) chameleon
Answer: dinosaurs
15. Who is the writer of ' Journey to the End of the Earth' ?
a) Tisan Doshi
b) Tishani Doshi
c) Ishani Doshi
d) Jainy Doshi
Answer: Tishani Doshi