Scavenger Hunt

Nuggets	URL	Copyright	Value	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://www.gse.harvard.edu /news/ed/13/09/whats-big-idea #:~:text=In%201999 %2C%20Sugata%20Mitra %2C%20a, computer%20without %20any%20forma l%20training.	©2022 President and Fellows of Harvard College	Mydhili Bayyapunedi	Google	Phrase Searching
2.  What does NIIT stand for?   Answer: National Institute of Information Technology	https://byjus.com/full-form/niit-full-form/	© 2022, BYJU'S	https://byjus.com/full-form/niit-full-form/	Google	Phrase Searching
3. It was first implemented at a slum area in _______ ,New Delhi   Answer: Kalkaji	http://www.hole-in-the-wall.com/Beginnings.html	© Hole-in-the-Wall Education Limited 2015	http://www.hole-in-the-wall.com/Beginnings.html	Google	Boolean Logic
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: 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	https://disclosures.ifc.org/project-detail/SPI/10665/niit-hole-in-the-wall	© 2022 IFC	https://disclosures.ifc.org/project-detail/SPI/10665/niit-hole-in-the-wall	Google	Boolean Logic
5. What was the significant finding of the experiment?   Answer: Children could teach themselves, and each other, how to use technology. Children do not need to be "taught" how to use computers. They can teach themselves	https://www.edutopia.org/blog/self-organized-learning-sugata-mitra	©2022 George Lucas Educational Foundation	February 3, 2012	Google	Phrase Searching
6. What were the two headlines in New York Times on the influenza epidemic in 1918 – 1919.   Answer: “The Mask Slackers of 1918” and “Echoes of Another Pandemic: How The Times Covered the 1918 Flu”	https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/05/insider/1918-pandemic.html	© 2022 The New York Times Company	https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/05/insider/1918-pandemic.html	Google	Term Weighing
7. ______ is home to moving air currents, clouds, storms and other weather disturbances and phenomenon   Answer: troposphere	https://scied.ucar.edu/learning-zone/atmosphere/troposphere	© 2022 UCAR	https://scied.ucar.edu/learning-zone/atmosphere/troposphere	Google	Term Weighing
8. How does global warning affect polar bears?   Answer: The Arctic is warming about twice as fast as the global average, causing the ice that polar bears depend on to melt away.	https://www.wwf.org.uk/learn/wildlife/polar-bears#:~:text=Challenges%20affecting%20polar%20bears&text=The%20Arctic%20is%20warming%20about,ice%20to%20raise%20their%20young.	© WWF / Sindre Kinnerød	Steven Kazlowski	Google	Boolean Searching
9. Coral reefs are built by colonies of coral polyps . Answer: They secrete layers of calcium carbonate beneath their bodies. The corals that build reefs are known as “hard” or “reef-building” corals.	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	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: Colar Bleaching. Yes.	https://www.worldwildlife.org/pages/everything-you-need-to-know-about-coral-bleaching-and-how-we-can-stop-it	© 2022 World Wildlife Fund.	https://www.worldwildlife.org/pages/everything-you-need-to-know-about-coral-bleaching-and-how-we-can-stop-it	Google	Term Weighing
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: Level of heat exposure and Coral Bleaching 2016	https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/apr/19/great-barrier-reef-30-of-coral-died-in-catastrophic-2016-heatwave	© 2022 Guardian News & Media Limited or its affiliated companies.	https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/apr/19/great-barrier-reef-30-of-coral-died-in-catastrophic-2016-heatwave	Google	Term Weighing
12. Compare the shape of the population pyramid of Singapore and the Philippines in 2050?   Answer: Singapore will increase further to 6.40 million in 2050, while the Philippines decrease further to 144.49 million	https://statisticstimes.com/demographics/country/philippines-population.php https://statisticstimes.com/demographics/country/singapore-population.php	© 2021 - StatisticsTimes.com	https://statisticstimes.com	Google	Phrase Searching

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