The Instant Guide to the Arctic – exercise 1

1. [Multiple choice]

Who is based at London University?

Answers for Quiz [1].

• 1. Klaus Dodds
  (correct)
• 2. David Shukman
• 3. Martina Tyrrell

2. [Multiple choice]

Who works for the BBC?

Answers for Quiz [2].

• 1. Martina Tyrrell
• 2. Klaus Dodds
• 3. David Shukman (correct)

3. [Multiple choice]

Who has a post as a social anthropologist?

Answers for Quiz [3].

• 1. David Shukman
• 2. Martina Tyrrell
  (correct)
• 3. Klaus Dodds

4. [Multiple choice]

Who is a university professor?

Answers for Quiz [4].

• 1. David Shukman
• 2. Klaus Dodds (correct)
• 3. Martina Tyrrell

5. [Multiple choice]

Who works as a Science and Environment correspondent?

(David Shukman has worked for BBC News as their Science and Environment Correspondent since 2003)

Answers for Quiz [5].

• 1. David Shukman
  (correct)
• 2. Martina Tyrrell
• 3. Klaus Dodds

6. [Multiple choice]

Who is based at Cambridge University?

Answers for Quiz [6].

• 1. David Shukman
• 2. Martina Tyrrell (correct)
• 3. Klaus Dodds

7. [Multiple choice]

Who works in a university geography department?

Answers for Quiz [7].

• 1. Martina Tyrrell
• 2. Martina Tyrrell and David Shukman
• 3. David Shukman and Klaus Dodds
• 4. Klaus Dodds
• 5. Klaus Dodds and Martina Tyrrell (correct)
• 6. David Shukman

8. [Multiple choice]

Who describes watching winter arriving in the Arctic?

Answers for Quiz [8].

• 1. Martina Tyrrell
• 2. Klaus Dodds
• 3. David Shukman (correct)

9. [Multiple choice]

Who has a marked Irish accent?

(A marked accent is a strong or noticeable accent.)

Answers for Quiz [9].

• 1. Martina Tyrrell
  (correct)
• 2. Klaus Dodds
• 3. David Shukman

10. [Multiple choice]

Who is a professor of geo-politics?

(Professor of Geo-Politics Klaus Dodds works in the department of geography at Royal Holloway University of London)

Answers for Quiz [10].

• 1. David Shukman
• 2. Klaus Dodds
  (correct)
• 3. Martina Tyrrell

11. [Multiple choice]

Who is employed by the Scott Polar Research Institute?

Answers for Quiz [11].

• 1. Martina Tyrrell

  (correct)

• 2. David Shukman
• 3. Klaus Dodds

12. [Multiple choice]

Which country does Dr Tyrrell mention in connection with the flat Arctic tundra?

Answers for Quiz [12].

• 1. Greenland
• 2. Norway
• 3. Sweden
• 4. Canada (correct)
• 5. Iceland
• 6. Russia

13. [Multiple choice]

Which countries does Dr Tyrrell mention in connection with fjords?

Answers for Quiz [13].

• 1. Russia and Canada
• 2. Sweden and Norway
• 3. Greenland and Norway (correct)
• 4. Canada and Iceland
• 5. Greenland and North America
• 6. Canada and Norway
• 7. America and Canada

14. [Multiple choice]

Which of these seas around the Arctic Ocean is not mentioned by Martina Tyrrell?

Answers for Quiz [14].

• 1. The Chukchi Sea
• 2. The Norwegian Sea (correct)
• 2. The Beaufort Sea
• 3. Hudson Bay
• 5. The Laptev Sea

15. [Multiple choice]

What fraction of the world’s surface does the Arctic make up?

Answers for Quiz [15].

• 1. a quarter / 1/4
• 2. two thirds / 2/3rds
• 3. five eighths / 5/8s
• 4. two-ninths / 2/9ths
• 5. one sixth / 1/6 (correct)
• 6. one fifth / 1/5
• 7. a third / 1/3rd

16. [Multiple choice]

Which is the longer season in the Arctic?

(David Shukman says the Arctic has two very distinct seasons – a long hard winter and a comparatively short summer.)

Answers for Quiz [16].

• 1. the winter (correct)
• 2. the summer

17. [Multiple choice]

Where was David Shukman when he watched the sea start to freeze?

(A trawler is a large fishing boat. An icebreaker is a special purpose ship or boat designed to move and navigate through ice-covered waters.)

Answers for Quiz [17].

• 1. in a snowmobile
• 2. on board a helicopter
• 3. in a dinghy (correct)
• 4. on a trawler
• 5. on an icebreaker
• 6. in an igloo
• 7. on a local ferry

18. [Multiple choice]

He describes October as a pivotal month in the calendar because it is when the sea starts to freeze

(To do sth with a vengeance is to do it with great force, extreme energy, intensity or fury, sometimes as if in order to punish someone or something.
eg I’ve been painting the kitchen with a vengeance over the weekend to make up for having left it for so long.
The colour black is back with a vengeance (= very popular again) this summer, I see.
)

Answers for Quiz [18].

• 1. hard.
• 2. solid.
• 3. with a vengeance. (correct)
• 4. fast.
• 5. very rapidly.
• 6. at an alarming rate.