journey_to_the_end_of_the_earth.pptx

A Presentation on
Journey to 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
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NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0
International License.

Tishani Doshi is a 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.

Madras / Chennai

A time zone is 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.

Named for the English 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.

The Antarctic Circumpolar Current (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

Midge is a term used to refer to
many species of small flies
Most mites are tiny, less than
1 mm (0.04 in) in length

Ice calving, also known as glacier calving or iceberg calving, is the breaking
of ice chunks from the edge of a glacier.

Phytoplankton is the base 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.

Food Chain

In the periphery Crabeater seals were stretching and
sunning themselves on ice floes
Ice floe
An ice floe
is a
large pack
of
floating ice
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Underneath our feet was a metre-thick ice pack, and underneath
that, 180 metres of living, breathing, salt water.

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.

Geoff Green
Founder, Executive Director & Expedition Leader
https://studentsonice.com/about-us/our-team/team/geoff-green/

Coldest, driest, windiest continent
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

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

This statement has great 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-

Will the West Antarctic 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

If we want to 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

https://www.euronews.com/2018/01/09/the-impact-of-climate-change-on-
the-antarctic

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