Question

Note making of journey to the end of earth

Answer 1

Answer:

Title: Journey to the end of the Earth

1. Author’s journey to Ant.

i. Travelled by Akademik Shokalskiy

ii. Travelled 100 hrs.

iii. Crossed

a.) nine time zones

b.) six checkpoints

c.) three bodies of water

d.) many ecospheres

2. History of Ant.

i. 650 mil yrs ago Gondwana

ii. No humans, climate warm

iii. 150 mil yrs ago separation started

3. Contemporary Ant.

i. Very cold

ii. 90 % of world ice

iii. White landscape

iv. ubiquitous silence

v. midges, mites and blue whales

4. Human Impact on Ant.

i. created quite a ruckus

ii. Population, CO2, G.W.

iii. Ozone hole

iv. Ant. Best place to study earth’s past, present, future

5. Students on Ice Prog.

i. Geoff Green started the prog.

ii. To spread awareness

iii. Students from the world taken to Ant.

iv. Hope for new future

Key to Abbreviations

1. Ant. = Antarctica

2. Hrs. = hours

3. Yrs. = years

4. G.W. =Global warming

5. Prog. = Program