scavenger hunt
Nuggets | URL | Copyright | Value: Sources /Author / Date Published /Sponsor | Search Engine | Search Term |
1. Sometime in 1991, a chief scientist at the NIIT named _________ started an experiment hole in a wall.
Answer: Sugata Mitra | https:// niituniversity. in/faculty/prof-sugata-mitra-2 | Copyright © 2022 NIIT University. | Kasturirangan, K.(2021)
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2. What does NIIT stand for?
Answer:National Institute of Information Technology | https://byjus.com/full-form/niit-full-form/ | © 2022, BYJU'S. All rights reserved. | BYJU’S (2022) | Google.com | Phrase searching |
3. It was first implemented at a slum area in _______ ,New Delhi
Answer: Kalkaji | opia.org/blog/self-organized-learning-sugata-mitra | ©2022 George Lucas Educational Foundation. All Rights Reserved. | Written by Sugata mitra (2001) | Google.com | Phrase searching |
4. His team carved a hole in the wall that separated NIIT campuses from the slum areas. Why did they carve a hole in the hall?
Answer: aims to discover how much poor children in slums and rural areas of India can learn from a web-based curriculum through a purpose-built Internet kiosk.
| ifc.org/project-detail/SPI/10665/niit-hole-in-the-wall | © 2022 IFC
| Published 7 years ago on April 19, 2016 by Varum Bodhwani | Google.com | Phrase searching |
5. What was the significant finding of the experiment?
Answer: Children had taught themselves to use the computer and developed basic skills in English and mathematics. | dnet.com/article /how-semi-literate-ch ildren-in-a-remote-ind ian-village-taught-thems elves-molecular-biology/ | © 2022 ZDNET, A Red Ventures company. All rights reserved | Google.com | Pseudo-boolean logic | |
6. What were the two headlines in New York Times on the influenza epidemic in 1918 – 1919.
Answer: Greater Gotham: A History of New York City from 1898 to 1919.” And The Great Influenza | s.com/2020/04/02/n yregion/spanish-flu-nyc-virus.html | © 2022 The New York Times Company
| Michael Wilson. Published April 2, 2020.Updated April 6, 2020
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7. ______ is home to moving air currents, clouds, storms and other weather disturbances and phenomenon
Answer: wind | algeographic.org/reso urce/wind | © 1996 - 2022 National Geographic Society. All rights reserved | on.nationalgeograp hic.org/resource/wind | Google.com | Boolean logic |
8. How does global warning affect polar bears?
Answer: it causes the ice that polar bears depend on to melt away. Loss of sea ice also threatens the bears sources of food. | ww.carbon brief.org/pol ar-bears-and-c limate-change -what-does-t he-science-say/ | Published by Carbon Brief Ltd © 2022 |
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9. Coral reefs are built by colonies of coral polyps . Answer: as they secrete layers of calcium carbonate beneath their bodies. | https:// coral.org/en /coral-reefs -101/how- reefs-are-made/ | © 2022 Coral Reef Alliance | https://coral.org/en/coral-reefs-101/how-reefs-are-made/ | Google.com | Phrase searching |
10. Severe environmental imbalance can induce polyps to expel their algae and loose their color. This process is known as _________. Will this phenomenon affect the growth of fish stocks?
Answer: coral bleaching. Yes. | https://www.worldwildlife.org/pages/everything-you-need-to-know- | © 2022 World Wildlife Fund | https://www.worldwildlife.org/pages/everything-you-need-to-know-about-coral-bleaching-and-how-we-can-stop-it | Google.com | Phrase searching |
11. What according to scientist was the cause of the worst and biggest catastrophic mass mortality of coral reefs in the Pacific and the Indian Ocean. When did this happen?
Answer: he mass bleaching of coral currently underway in the Lakshadweep is being caused by unusually high sea surface temperatures | https://news.mongabay.com/2016/05/indias-coral-reefs-experiencing-catastrophic-bleaching-heart-wrenching-scientist-says/ | © 2022 Copyright Conservation news | by Shreya Dasgupta on 11 May 2016 | Google.com | Phrase searching and Boolean logic |
12. Compare the shape of the population pyramid of Singapore and Philippines in 2050?
Answer: Philippines decreases while Singapore increases then decreases | https://statisticstimes.com/demographics/country/singapore-population.php | © 2021 - StatisticsTimes.com | https://statisticstimes.com/demographics/country/singapore-population.php | Google.com |
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