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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)

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3. It was first implemented at a slum area in _______ ,New Delhi

 

Answer: Kalkaji

https://www.edut

opia.org/blog/self-organized-learning-sugata-mitra

©2022 George Lucas Educational Foundation. All Rights Reserved.

Written by Sugata mitra (2001)

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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.

 

https://disclosures.

ifc.org/project-detail/SPI/10665/niit-hole-in-the-wall

© 2022 IFC

 


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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.

https://www.z

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

Written by Rajiv Rao, Contributing Writer on May 15, 2014

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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

https://www.nytime

s.com/2020/04/02/n

yregion/spanish-flu-nyc-virus.html

© 2022 The New York Times Company

 

 

 Michael WilsonPublished 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

https://education.nation

algeographic.org/reso

urce/wind

© 1996 - 2022 National Geographic Society. All rights reserved

https://educati

on.nationalgeograp

hic.org/resource/wind

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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.

https://w

ww.carbon

brief.org/pol

ar-bears-and-c

limate-change

-what-does-t

he-science-say/

Published by Carbon Brief Ltd © 2022


ROZ PIDCOCK

04.03.2015 | 1:45pm

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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/

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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

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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

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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

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