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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,

 

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

© Hole-in-the-Wall Education Limited 2015

8, Balaji Estate, Guru Ravi Das
Marg Kalkaji, New Delhi - 110 019
INDIA.

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2.  What does NIIT stand for?

 

Answer: National Institute of Information Technology

https://byjus.com/full-form/niit-full-form/#:~:

text=The%20full%20f

orm%20of%20NIIT%20is%20the%20Na

tional%20Institute%20of,also%20offers%

20corporate%20IT%20solutions.

© 2022, BYJU'S.

Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative, Sequoia Capital India, et. al

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

 

Answer: The hole in the Wall Project

https://www.edutopia.org/blog/self-

organized-learning-sugata-mitra

©2022 George Lucas Educational Foundation

Sugata Mitra

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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: A computer was set up in the hole.

 https://niitfoundation.org/hole-in-

the-wall-learning-stations/

 © Copyright 2022 NIIT Foundation.

Top of Form

Bottom of Form

 NIIT Foundation
8, Balaji Estate
Kalkaji
New Delhi -110019

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5. What was the significant finding of the experiment?

 

Answer: NIIT's Hole-in-the-Wall, “What started as an experiment has become India's gift to the world.”

 https://www.niit.com/authoring/

NewsRoom/MediaKit/News%20

Reprints/Reprint-Week-hole-in-the-wall.pdf

2008

8 Balaji Estate, Sudarshan Munjal Marg, Kalkaji, New Delhi-110019

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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/2020/08/03/us/mask-

protests-1918.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/05/insider/

1918-pandemic.html

2020

 © 2022 The New York Times Company

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7. ______ is home to moving air currents, clouds, storms and other weather

disturbances and

phenomenon

 

Answer: Atmosphere

https://www.noaa.gov/education/resource-collections

/weather-atmosphere

2021

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
1401 Constitution Avenue NW, Room 5128
Washington, DC 20230  

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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#:~:text=Previous%20Next-,Climate%20change,ice

%20to%20raise%20their%20young.

 

 

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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/#:~:text=Coral%20reefs

%20are%20built%20by,whips%2C%20do%20not

%20produce%20reefs.

© 2022 Coral Reef Allianc

The Coral Reef Alliance
548 Market Street
Suite 29802
San Francisco, CA 94104-5401

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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

https://oceanservice.noaa.gov

/facts/coral_bleach.html#:~:text

=When%20water%20is%20too%

20warm,This%20is%20called%

20coral%20bleaching.

2021

N/MB6, SSMC4, Room 9149
1305 East-West Hwy
Silver Spring, MD 20910

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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: Bleaching and disease. 2015

 https://www.washingtonpost.c

om/news/energy-environment/wp/2015/10/26/bleaching-

and-disease-are-devastating-the-biggest-coral-reef-in-the-continental-united-s

tates/

 © 1996-2022 The Washington Post

 Chelsea Harvey

October 26, 2015 at 11:09 a.m. EDT

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

 

Answer: Philippines has more population than Singapore.

 https://www.populationpyramid.

net/philippines/2050/

© December 2019 by PopulationPyramid.net,

Made available under a Creative Commons license CC BY 3.0 IGO: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/

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  1. John Gabriel13 November 2022 at 21:03

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