Journey to the end of the earth
Vistas Chapter #3
Long Answer Type Questions
(Important Questions For English Class 12 UP Board Exams)
Q1. what was Akademik Shokalskiy? what was its mission and how it is accomplished? {V.Imp}
Ans: Akademik Shokalskiy was a Russian research vessel. Its mission was to reach the coldest driest windiest continent in the world. It was accomplished when Tishani Doshi started her journey from Madras, crossed 9 time zones 6 checkpoints, three bodies of water and many ecospheres. she had to travel over 100 hours using different modes of transportation such as ship car and aeroplane.
Q2. what was Gondwana? what had happened for 500 million years? How is Antarctica helpful to find the history of the earth? {V.Imp}
Ans: Gondwana was a giant amalgamated Southern supercontinent which was existed 650 million years ago. for 500 million years when the dinosaurs were destroyed and the age of mammals got underway, the Gondwana landmass was forced to separate into continents shaping the world globe much as we know it today. Antarctica is helpful to find the history of the earth because it holds in its ice-cores and half million years old carbon records trapped in its layer of ice. If we want to study and examine the earth's past present and future. Antarctica is the place to go.
Q3. Describe the passengers trending on Antarctica? what life was surviving there and what did they learn from Antarctica? {V.Imp}
Ans: Passenger first emotion on facing Antarctica expansive white landscape and uninterrupted Blue Horizon was a relief. They wondered at its immensity and isolation but mainly at how there could ever have been a time when India and Antarctica were part of the same landmass. There was no life surviving here only 90% of the earth's total ice volume are stored. From Antarctica, one can learn that where we have come from and where we could possibly be heading and they all also learnt all these things.
Q4. what are phytoplankton? How are they important to our ecosystem? {V.Imp}
Ans: phytoplankton are microscopic plants that live in the Southern Ocean. These small plants are very important to the ocean and to the whole planet. these single-celled plants use the sun's energy to assimilate carbon and synthesis organic compounds. They are at the base of the food chain. Many small fish and whales eat them than bigger fish eats small fish etc. The food chain continuous we also get joint in this food chain when we eat the fishes so the energy of plankton becomes our energy also.
Q5. what was the 'Student of Ice' Programme? what was its aim and why it became a successful programme? {V.Imp}
Ans: 'Student of Ice' was a Programme headed by Canadian Geoff Green. Its aim was to provide the students an ample opportunity to understand the Antarctica continent and how global temperature can be a bigger threat to human existence. It had become a successful programme because it offers the future generation of policymakers a life-changing experience at an early age. when they are ready to absorb learn and most important act.
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