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:Dr. Sugata Mitra	http://www.hole-in-the-wall.com/Beginnings.html	© Hole-in-the-Wall Education Limited 2015	URL http://www.hole-in-the-wall.com/Beginnings.html	Google	Phrase Searching
2.  What does NIIT stand for?   Answer:National Institute of Information Technology	https://www.acronymfinder.com/National-Institute-of-Information-Technology-(India)-(NIIT).html	The Acronym Finder is © 1988-2018, Acronym Finder, All Rights Reserved.	https://www.acronymfinder.com/National-Institute-of-Information-Technology-(India)-(NIIT).html	Google	Phrase Searching
3. It was first implemented at a slum area in _______ ,New Delhi   Answer:Hole in the Wall	https://www.edutopia.org/blog/self-organized-learning-sugata-mitra	The Hole in the Wall Project and the Power of Self-Organized Learning E-book excerpt By Sugata Mitra February 3, 2012	https://www.edutopia.org/blog/self-organized-learning-sugata-mitra	Google	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:Dr. Mitra's team carved a "hole in the wall" that separated the NIIT premises from the adjoining slum in Kalkaji, New Delhi and through this hole, a freely accessible computer was put up for use.	http://www.hole-in-the-wall.com/Beginnings.html	© Hole-in-the-Wall Education Limited 2015	https://www.edutopia.org/blog/self-organized-learning-sugata-mitra	Google	Phrase Searching
5. What was the significant finding of the experiment?   Answer:The most avid users of the machine were kids aged 6 to 12, most of whom have only the most rudimentary education and little knowledge of English, yet, within days, the kids had taught themselves to draw on the computer and to browse the Net	http://www.greenstar.org/butterflies/Hole-in-the-Wall.htm	From a Businessweek Online Daily Briefing, March 2, 2000. Edited by Paul Judge	http://www.greenstar.org/butterflies/Hole-in-the-Wall.htm	Google	Phrase Searching
6. What were the two headlines in New York Times on the influenza epidemic in 1918 – 1919.   Answer:A Review of the Public Health Response	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2862336/	© ncbi.2022	Francesco Aimone, MPH	Google	Phrase Searching
7. ______ is home to moving air currents, clouds, storms and other weather disturbances and phenomenon   Answer:thunderstorm	https://www.britannica.com/editor/The-Editors-of-Encyclopaedia-Britannica/4419	© britannica.com/4419	https://www.britannica.com/editor/The-Editors-of-Encyclopaedia-Britannica/4419	Google	Phrase Searching
8. How does global warning affect polar bears?   Answer:causing the ice that polar bears depend on to melt away.	https://www.wwf.org.uk/learn/wildlife/polar-bears	© wildlife/polar-bears	https://www.wwf.org.uk/learn/wildlife/polar-bears	Google	Phrase Searching
9. Coral reefs are built by colonies of coral polyps . Answer:A coral reef is made of thin layers of calcium carbonate	https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/coralmadeof.html	© oceanservice.noaa	NOAA	Google	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	https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/coral_bleach.html	©oceanservice.noaa	NOAAA	Google	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:massive global bleaching event	https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2015/10/26/bleaching-and-disease-are-devastating-the-biggest-coral-reef-in-the-continental-united-states/	© 1996-2022 The Washington Post	By Chelsea Harvey October 26, 2015 at 11:09 a.m.	Google	Phrase Searching
12. Compare the shape of the population pyramid of Singapore and Philippines in 2050?   Answer:The Philippines population is projected to reach 123.70 million in 2030 and decrease further to 144.49 million in 2050 and 146.33 million by 2100 while the population of singapore is 5,959,094 as of November 02, 2022, based on interpolation of the latest United Nations data	https://population.un.org/wpp/Download/Standard/Population/	© 2021 - StatisticsTimes.com	statistics ,23 Aug 2021	Google	Phrase Searching

 

 

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11/8/22