Wednesday, November 9, 2022

Scavenger hunt


Reference: SNACKNATION, by Ashley Bell,


 

SCAVENGER HUNT!

Activity 1:

Mining the Internet: Laying the Foundation of Knowledge Based Society

 

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

https://www.hole-in-the-wall.com/Beginnings.html#:~:text=Dr.,%2Din%2Dthe%2DWall.

© Hole-in-

the-Wall 

Education 

Limited 2015 

Hole-in-the-wall 

 Education Ltd/2015

Google

 Who is the chief scientist at the NIIT

2.  What does

 NIIT stand 

for?

 

Answer:National Institute of

 Information 

 Technology

https://byjus.com/

© 2022,

 BYJU'S. 

All rights 

reserved.

BYJU’S.com/

BYJU’S/2022

Google

 NIIT stand for?

 

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 

Hole-in-the-wall 

 Education Ltd/2015

Google

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

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

http://www.hole-in-the-wall.com/Beginnings.html

© Hole-in-

the-Wall

 Education 

Limited 2015 

Hole-in-the-wall 

Education Ltd/2015

Google

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?

 

5. What was the significant

 finding 

of the 

experiment?

 

Answer:to broaden 

the scope of the

 experiments

 and conduct 

 research to 

prove and 

streamline 

Hole-in-the-Wall.

http://www.hole-in-the-wall.com/Beginnings.html

© Hole-in-

the-Wall 

Education

 Limited 2015 

Hole-in-the-wall

 Education Ltd/2015

Google

significant finding of the experiment?

6. What were 

the two

headlines in

 New York

Times on the 

influenza

epidemic in 

1918 – 1919.

 

Answer:  1918: 

The infection

 spreads.
1919: A new 

year

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/03/us/mask-protests-1918.html

© 2022 The 

New York 

Times Company

nytimes.com/

The New York Times/

Dec 10, 2020/

Google

 What were the two

headlines in New York

Times on the influenza

epidemic in 1918 – 1919?

 

 

7. ______ is 

home to moving

 air

 currents, 

clouds, storms

 and other 

weather

disturbances and

phenomenon

 

Answer:Thunderstorm

https://www.britannica.com/science/thunderstorm

 

©2022

 Encyclopædia Britannica,

 Inc.

Krider, E. Philip/

 October 29, 2020

Google

It is a home to moving air currents, clouds, storms and other weather

disturbances and

phenomenon

 

8. How does

 global warning

affect polar

 bears?

 

Answer:cause 

dens to collapse, which 

females build to birth and protect their

 young, 

increases in contamination

 and

 exposure to diseases.

 

https://www.carbonbrief.org/polar-bears-and-climate-change-what-does-the-science-say/

Carbon Brief 

Ltd © 2022

CarbonBrief/

Roz Pidcock/

March 4,2015/

Google

How does global warning

affect polar bears?

 

9. Coral reefs are built by colonies 

of coral polyps

.


Answer:True

https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/coralmadeof.html

 

Courtesy: NOAA

NOAA/

 February 26, 2021

Google

Coral reefs are built by colonies of coral polyps

.

 

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://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/coral_bleach.html

 National

 Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

National ocean services

/ National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration

/december 1,2021

Google

Severe environmental

imbalance can induce

polyps to expel their

algae and loose their

color.

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:2016El Niño

https://e360.yale.edu/features/inside-look-at-catastrophic-bleaching-of-the-great-barrier-reef-2017-hughes

 

©2021, Yale University. All rights reserved.

Richard Schiffman/ 

April 10, 2017

Google

 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?

 

12. Compare the shape of the population

 pyramid of Singapore and Philippines in 2050?

 

Answer: The Philippines will have
more population than Singapore in 2050

 

https://www.populationpyramid.net/world/2050/

© December 

2019 by Population

Pyramid.net

United Nations, Department 

of Economic and Social 

Affairs, Population Division. /population

pyramid.net/2019

Google

Population of singapore and philippines in 2050.

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