Class 12 Journey To The End of The Earth

JOURNEY TO THE END OF THE EARTH
TISHANI JOSHI
IN ‘Journey to the End of the Earth’ , Tishani Joshi talks about environmental issues, the complications in
nature caused by human activities, and how can youth dedicate some part of their lives to conserving it. It
is an incident from the author's life where she goes to Antarctica with a Russian research group.
IMPORTANT QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS: (BOARD QUESTIONS)
Q1. How the programme, ‘Students on Ice’ was an attempt to equip future generation with knowledge to
save Earth?
Answer: The objective of the ‘Students on Ice’ programme was to take the High School students to the
limits of the world and provide them with inspiring opportunities in education to enable them to
understand and respect our planet. According to Geoff Green, the High School students are the future
policy-makers and through this programme they would be able to save this planet from the ecological
hazards and the harmful effects of global warming. Antarctica, with its simple ecosystem and lack of
biodiversity, is the perfect place to study how little changes in the environment can have major
repercussions. The school students’ impressionable minds can study and examine the Earth’s past, present
and future by their voyage to Antarctica.
Q2. What are phytoplanktons? How are they important to our ecosystem?
Answer: The microscopic phytoplankton are tiny forms of plant life on the sea. They nourish and sustain
the entire southern ocean’s food chain. They are single-celled plants and use the energy of the sun to
assimilate carbon supplying oxygen and synthesise compounds. Depletion of the ozone layer that protects
us from the harmful rays of the sun adversely affects the activities of the phytoplankton. Any further
depletion in the ozone layer will hamper their activity which, in turn, is bound to affect the growth of marine
animals and birds and even the global carbon cycle. Thus to save the big organisms the small organisms
need to be cared for because even minor changes have huge repercussions.
Q3.Why does Tishani Doshi call her trip to Antarctica a “Journey to the End of the Earth”? What experience
did she have during this expedition?
Answer: Tishani Doshi calls her trip to Antarctica a ‘Journey to the End of the Earth’ because she crosses
nine time zones, six checkpoints, three water bodies and many ecospheres to reach there. The entire
journey takes one hundred hours. She is wonder-struck by the immensity and isolation of the region. She
is also relieved to see its expansive wide landscape and uninterrupted blue horizon. Antarctica provides
young students like her with a platform to study changes in the environment. The programme is also likely
to help them develop a new respect and understanding of our planet. Antarctica is also the perfect place
for them to study how little climatic changes can have big repercussions and how global warming and
further depletion of the ozone layer can affect the Antarctic region. The study of the Antarctica will help
them to understand the earth’s past, present and future.
Q4.In what ways is the research on Antarctica helpful in the study and understanding of the Earth’s past and
future, according to the author of ‘Journey to the End of the Earth’?
Answer: A visit to Antarctica will help us to understand where we have come from and where we could
possibly be heading. It will also suggest a lot of future possibilities, probably for even a million years later.
By visiting the Antarctica we get an opportunity to study about the future climatic changes easily and more
effectively. We also come to know about the repercussions of the various environmental changes. It also
gives us the realization of the appearance of the ‘future world’. The ice-cores of Antarctica hold more than
half-million-year-old carbon records which are very crucial for the study of the past, present and future of
our planet. All this will also help us to understand our planet better and also give us ideas to save our planet.

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