Class 12 English Vistas book chapter 3 – Journey to the end of the Earth MCQs

A) Tishani Doshi
B) Kamla Das
C) Jane Austen
D) Chitra Das

A) It revolves around the world
B) tourism
C) children and their tour
D) the world’s most preserved place, Antarctica

A) to tour the world
B) to see the beauty of the earth
C) to know the geography more closely
D) to sensitize the young minds towards climatic change

A) by telling the age of existence of human beings on the earth
B) by showing the global warming
C) by showing the imapcts of global warming
D) none

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

A) man’s history
B) snow’s history
C) geographical history
D) Geological history

A) The author’s delight
B) Teachers delight
C) School program
D) Geoff Green’s ‘Students on Ice’ programme

A) to make them tour the world
B) to make them enjoy
C) to make them feel relaxed
D) to make them understand their planet and respect it.

A) because half million-year-old carbon records are trapped in its layers of ice.
B) because of layers of ice
C) because of cold
D) none

A) to have a better understanding of the planet
B) to see the white expanse
C) to enjoy the cold weather
D) none

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 these

A) because it’s too cold
B) because of no life
C) because of snow
D) to protect the environment

A) Geoff was a Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society and The Explorers Club.
B) A scientist
C) A traveller
D) A tourist guide

A) Shokalskiy
B) Akademik Shokalskiy
C) Academic research
D) Akademik Scholar

A) An ancient tourist place
B) an ancient city in Antarctica
C) An ancient super continent
D) None

A) Beauty of the place
B) white expanse
C) Beauty of balance on the earth
D) None

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

A) melting glaciers
B) depleting ozone layer
C) increasing global warming
D) All these

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 these

A) of relief and amazement
B) tired and fatigued
C) sad
D) none

A) The birds
B) the animals
C) the humans
D) Avalanches

A) because of its arrangements
B) good travel facilities
C) good food arrangements
D) because of the life changing exposure to the youngsters

A) by travelling
B) by encroaching the earth
C) by visiting the iceland
D) none

A) Oceas
B) Southern oceans
C) Microscopic grasses
D) None

A) by a collapse in the Gondwana supercontinent
B) by evolution
C) by deforestation
D) All these

A) to melting glaciers
B) to avalanches
C) to stray dogs
D) None

A) Asia
B) Pacific
C) Antarctica
D) All these

A) cutting of trees
B) human activities
C) increasing pollution
D) All these

A) coldest
B) driest
C) windiest
D) All these

A) 1 million year old
B) 2 million years old
C) half million-year-old carbon records
D) All these

A) Animals
B) Tigers
C) Humans
D) Fauna and flora

A) Pacific region
B) Southern oceans
C) Northern pole
D) Antarctica Continent

A) Because of ice
B) because of avalanches
C) because of melting glaciers
D) because of non-existence of humans

A) on southern pole
B) On Northern Pole
C) on Asia Continent
D) On Antarctica Continent

A) Tour Program
B) Research Program
C) Students on Ice Program
D) None

A) Tour and Travels
B) Know Antarctica
C) Know your earth
D) Students on Ice

A) Study of Northern Pole
B) Study of Southern Pole
C) Study of Antarctica Continent
D) None

A) how small changes cause big things to happen
B) it makes us study
C) it helps us to watch everything closely
D) none

A) Asia
B) Asia Pacific
C) Northern pole
D) Gondwana

A) Northern Pole
B) Southern Pole
C) Gondwana
D) Antarctica Continent