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The document presents an overview of Tishani Doshi, a writer and dancer, highlighting her educational background and career in journalism and dance. It discusses the significance of Antarctica, including its unique environmental features and the role it plays in understanding climate change and our planet's history. Additionally, it emphasizes educational initiatives like Students on Ice that facilitate learning opportunities about the polar regions for youth.
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- 1. A Presentation on Journeyto the end of the earth By Mrs.S.Akilandeswari PGT English DAV Public School, Sreshtha Vihar, Delhi https://akilasenglishclass.blogspot.com/ journey to the end of the earth by S.Akilandeswari is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
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- 3. Tishani Doshi isa writer and dancer of Welsh-Gujarati origin. She was born in Madras, India, in 1975. She studied Business Administration and Communications at Queens College, Charlotte, North Carolina and gained a Masters degree in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. She moved to London in 1999, becoming assistant to the advertising department of Harper's and Queen magazine. In 2001, she returned to India where she became a dancer with the choreographer Chandralekha. She also works as a freelance journalist, contributing to various newspapers such as The Guardian, The International Herald Tribune, The New Indian Express and The National. Tishani divides her time between a village by the sea in Tamil Nadu, and elsewhere. https://akilasenglishclass.blogspot.com/
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- 6. A time zoneis a region of the globe that observes a uniform standard time for legal, commercial and social purposes. Time zones tend to follow the boundaries of countries and their subdivisions because it is convenient for areas in close commercial or other communication to keep the same time. https://akilasenglishclass.blogspot.com/
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- 12. Named for theEnglish navigator, Sir Francis Drake, the Drake Passage is the body of water between South America’s Cape Horn and the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica. It connects the southwestern part of the Atlantic Ocean (Scotia Sea) with the southeastern part of the Pacific Ocean and extends into the Southern Ocean. https://akilasenglishclass.blogspot.com/
- 13. The Antarctic CircumpolarCurrent (ACC) is an ocean current that flows clockwise from west to east around Antarctica. The current is circumpolar due to the lack of any landmass connecting with Antarctica and this keeps warm ocean waters away from Antarctica, enabling that continent to maintain its huge ice sheet. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/sciencetech/video-1169773/NASA-animation- shows-Antarctic-Circumpolar-Current.html
- 14. Midge is aterm used to refer to many species of small flies Most mites are tiny, less than 1 mm (0.04 in) in length https://akilasenglishclass.blogspot.com/
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- 19. Ice calving, alsoknown as glacier calving or iceberg calving, is the breaking of ice chunks from the edge of a glacier. https://akilasenglishclass.blogspot.com/
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- 23. Phytoplankton is thebase of several aquatic food webs. In a balanced ecosystem, they provide food for a wide range of sea creatures including whales, shrimp, snails, and jellyfish. https://akilasenglishclass.blogspot.com/
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- 28. In the peripheryCrabeater seals were stretching and sunning themselves on ice floes Ice floe An ice floe is a large pack of floating ice C R A B E A T E r Seals https://akilasenglishclass.blogspot.com/
- 29. Underneath our feetwas a metre-thick ice pack, and underneath that, 180 metres of living, breathing, salt water. https://akilasenglishclass.blogspot.com/
- 30. Students on Ice(also known as SOI) is a Canadian charitable organisation that leads educational expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctic for international high school and university students. Its mandate is to provide youth, educators and scientists from around the world with learning and teaching opportunities in the polar regions, with the goal of fostering new understanding of and respect for the global environment. https://akilasenglishclass.blogspot.com/
- 31. Geoff Green Founder, ExecutiveDirector & Expedition Leader https://studentsonice.com/about-us/our-team/team/geoff-green/ https://akilasenglishclass.blogspot.com/
- 32. Coldest, driest, windiestcontinent Expansive white landscape Uninterrupted blue horizon Immense, isolated Frigid & desolate At the bottom of the world Devoid of human markers no trees, billboards, buildings pristine Visual scale ranging from Microscopic to the mighty Days go on & on & on Ubiquitous silence interrupted by occasional avalanche and calving ice sheet https://akilasenglishclass.blogspot.com/
- 33. Akademik Shokalskiy –Russian research vessel taking high school students to the ends of the world Providing inspirational educational opportunities Help them foster a new understanding and respect for our planet The future generation of policy- makers a life-changing experience Students ready to absorb, learn and most importantly act https://akilasenglishclass.blogspot.com/
- 34. This statement hasgreat relevance in the context of the Antarctic environment. A small change in the environment can give rise to drastic developments. Antarctica has little biodiversity. The microscopic algae Phytoplankton undergo the process of photosynthesis and serve as food for a number of marine birds and animals. The author says if there is further depletion of the ozone layer, it will affect the phytoplankton and the carbon cycle on the globe. This whole process can jeopardize the existence of all the marine birds and animals. So if we take care that processes carried over by these algae are carried out properly, the bigger animals and birds will fall into the place on their own. https://www.sarthaks.com/113118/take-care-of-the-small-things-and-the-big-things-
- 35. Will the WestAntarctic ice sheet melt entirely? Will it be the end of the world as we know it? 1. It is the only place in the world which has never sustained a human population – is relatively pristine 2. More importantly as it holds in its ice-cores half- million-year-old carbon records trapped in its layers of ice https://akilasenglishclass.blogspot.com/
- 36. If we wantto study and examine the Earth’s past, present and future, Antarctica is the place to go. Antarctica gives us an idea, how the earth would have been like millions of years ago and how it got divided into various earth masses. The melting and colliding ice masses also give us an insight into how our future is going to be, if we continue with interference in the working of the nature. Moreover, Antarctica holds into the depths of its ice half- million year old carbon records, which are helpful in understanding the past, present and future of the earth. Therefore, Antarctica is the place which reveals our past, shows our present and visualizes our future. https://www.sarthaks.com/113138/why-is-antarctica-the-place-to-go-to-to- understand-the-earths-present-past-and-future
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