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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

 

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Sometime in 1991, a chief scientist at the NIIT named _________ started an experiment hole in a wall.

 

2.  What does NIIT stand for?

 

Answer: National Institute of Information Technology

 

https://byjus.com/full-form/niit-full-form/ - :~:text=The%20full%20form%20of%20NIIT%20is%20the%20National%20Institute%20of,also%20offers%20corporate%20IT%20solutions.

© 2022, BYJU'S

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What does NIIT stand for?

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

 

Answer: 1911

 

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

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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: NIIT uses blended learning models combining brick learning centers with online learning capabilities and synchronous learning technology to impart its training.

https://www.niit.com/india/training/niit-360/Pages/education-technology.aspx

© 2022 NIIT Limited.

https://www.niit.com/india/training/niit-360/Pages/education-technology.aspx/NIIT

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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: An experiment is a procedure carried out to support or refute a hypothesis, or determine the efficacy or likelihood of something previously untried. Experiments provide insight into cause-and-effect by demonstrating what outcome occurs when a particular factor is manipulated.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experiment

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experiment/Wikipedia/26/10/22.

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What was the significant finding of the experiment?

6. What were the two

headlines in New York

Times on the influenza

epidemic in 1918 – 1919.

 

Answer: The influenza outbreak killed more than 20,000 New Yorkers and 675,000 Americans.

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/the-new-york-times.

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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: Tornado

https://www.nationalgeographic.org/activity/extreme-weather-on-earth/

© National Geographic

https://www.nationalgeographic.org/activity/extreme-weather-on-earth/national-Geographic.

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moving air currents, clouds, storms and other weather disturbances and phenomenon

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. Loss of sea ice also threatens the bear's main prey, seals, which need the ice to raise their young.

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

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.

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How does global warning

affect polar bears?

 

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 - :~:text=A%20coral%20reef%20is%20made,and%20building%20up%2C%20reef%20structures.

© National Ocean Service

https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/

https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/coralmadeof.html - :~:text=A%20coral%20reef%20is%20made,and%20building%20up%2C%20reef%20structures./NOAA/02/26/21.

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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 a https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/s _________. Will this phenomenon affect the growth of fish stocks?

 

Answer: coral bleaching. Changes in coral communities also affect the species that depend on them, such as the fish and invertebrates that rely on live coral for food, shelter, or recruitment habitat. Change in the abundance and composition of reef fish assemblages may occur when corals die as a result of coral bleaching.




© 2022 The Nature Conservancy https://nature.org/

© National Ocean Service

https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/

https://reefresilience.org/stressors/bleaching/bleaching-impacts/

 

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Severe environmental

imbalance can induce

polyps to expel their

algae and loose their

color. This process is

known as _________.

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: die due to the current bleaching event, 2015

https://news.mongabay.com/2015/10/massive-bleaching-event-puts-worlds-coral-reefs-at-risk/

https://news.mongabay.com/

https://news.mongabay.com/2015/10/massive-bleaching-event-puts-worlds-coral-reefs-at-risk/Shreya Dasgupta/13/10/2015

 

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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?

12. Compare the shape of the population pyramid of Singapore and Philippines in 2050?

 

Answer: Singapore has 6,407,527 and philippines has 144,488,171

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

© December 2019 by PopulationPyramid.net

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

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Compare the shape of the population pyramid of Singapore and Philippines in 2050?

 

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