MCQ Class 12 English Chapter 3 Journey to the End of the Earth Vistas

MCQ’s For All Chapters – Vistas Class 12th

1. How does visit to Antartica help to understand the effect of global warming?

(a) here one can see quickly melting glaciers and collapsing ice-shelves

(b) it is filled with snow

(c) it is away from urban rush

(d) it has hidden treasures.

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Question 1 of 30

2. The geographical phenomena is going to help us to know the history of mankind_________

(a) by showing the global warming

(b) by showing the imapacts of global warming

(c) by telling the age of existence of human beings on the earth

(d) by exploring the world of ice

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Question 2 of 30

3. Who is the author of the lesson Journey to the end of the Earth?

(a) Tishani Doshi

(b) Kamla Das

(c) Jane Austen

(d) Chitra Das

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Question 3 of 30

4. What is the meaning of ‘epiphany’?

(a) a moment of shock

(b) a moment of great sadness

(c) cacophony

(d) a moment of sudden and great revelation or realization

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Question 4 of 30

5. The name of the programme that takes high school students to the end of the earth is ________.

(a) Students of Ice

(b) Students for Ice

(c) Students above Ice

(d) Students on Ice

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Question 5 of 30

6. What does the author mean by “In that short amount of time, we’ve managed to create quite a ruckus”?

(a) progress made by human race

(b) destruction and disturbance caused by human race

(c) stunning achievements of human race

(d) None of the above

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Question 6 of 30

7. The synonym of ‘ubiquitous’ is __________.

(a) abstract

(b) complex

(c) omnipresent

(d) simple

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Question 7 of 30

8. The Drake Passage was created because of _________.

(a) India drifting northwards

(b) South America drifting off to join North America

(c) North America drifting off to join South America

(d) India’s collision with Asia

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Question 8 of 30

9. Gondwana existed roughly around ___________.

(a)110 million years ago

(b) 450 million years ago

(c) 250 million years ago

(d) 650 million years ago

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Question 9 of 30

10. The narrator was aboard on the ship named ______

(a) World carrier

(b) Academic Discovery

(c) Akademik Shokalskiy

(d) Denim Explorer

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Question 10 of 30

11. What was the name of the Southern Super continent?

(a) Asia

(b) Asia Pacific

(c) Northern pole

(d) Gondwana

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Question 11 of 30

12. What gives us an insight into the world’s geological history?

(a) Study of Northern Pole

(b) Study of Southern Pole

(c) Study of Antarctica Continent

(d) None

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Question 12 of 30

13. Which program was the author a part of?

(a) Tour Program

(b) Research Program

(c) Students on Ice Program

(d) None

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Question 13 of 30

14. Why is Antarctica completely pure?

(a) Because of ice

(b) because of avalanches

(c) because of melting glaciers

(d) because of non-existence of humans

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Question 14 of 30

15. What used to flourished on Antarctica years back?

(a) Animals

(b) Tigers

(c) Humans

(d) Fauna and flora

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Question 15 of 30

16. What kind of atmosphere does Antarctica have?

(a) coldest

(b) driest

(c) windiest

(d) All these

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Question 16 of 30

17. What was the center of the Gondwana Supercontinent?

(a) Asia

(b) Pacific

(c) Antarctica

(d) All these

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Question 17 of 30

18. How were the Himalayas formed?

(a) by a collapse in the Gondwana supercontinent

(b) by evolution

(c) by deforestation

(d) All these

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Question 18 of 30

19. How has the man created ruckus on the earth?

(a) by travelling

(b) by encroaching the earth

(c) by visiting the iceland

(d) none

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Question 19 of 30

20. What disturbed the silence of the continent?

(a) The birds

(b) the animals

(c) the humans

(d) Avalanches

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Question 20 of 30

21. Why was Tishani Doshi filled with relief and wonder when she first set his foot on the continent?

(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

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Question 21 of 30

22. What was the objective of the Students on the Ice program?

(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

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Question 22 of 30

23. What was Gondwana?

(a) An ancient tourist place

(b) an ancient city in Antarctica

(c) An ancient super continent

(d) None

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Question 23 of 30

24. Who was Geoff Green?

(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

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Question 24 of 30

25. Why is the Antarctica the right place to understand the past, present and future?

(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

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Question 25 of 30

26. Why has the author called her journey as Journey to the End of the Earth’?

(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.

(d) All these

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Question 26 of 30

27. Which programme aimed to take high school students to the end of the world?

(a) The author’s delight

(b) Teachers delight

(c) School program

(d) Geoff Green’s ‘Students on Ice’ programme

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Question 27 of 30

28. Why is a visit to Antartica 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) None

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Question 28 of 30

29. What is the purpose of The Journey to 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

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Question 29 of 30

30. Who is the author of the lesson?

(a) Tishani Doshi

(b) Kamla Das

(c) Jane Austen

(d) Chitra Das

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Question 30 of 30

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