SCAVENGER HUNT

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	© Hole-in-the-Wall Education Limited 2015	Hole-in-the-Wall Lightning the Sparks of Learning, 2015	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	BYJU’S, (2022)	Google	Phrase Searching
3. It was first implemented at a slum area in _______ ,New Delhi   Answer: Kalkaji	https://www.hole-in-the-wall.com/Beginnings.html	© Hole-in-the-Wall Education Limited 2015	Hole-in-the-Wall Lightning the Sparks of Learning, 2015	Google	Phrase Searching
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: Through this hole, a freely accessible computer put up for use.	https://www.hole-in-the-wall.com/Beginnings.html	© Hole-in-the-Wall Education Limited 2015	Hole-in-the-Wall Lightning the Sparks of Learning, 2015	Google	Phrase Searching
5. What was the significant finding of the experiment?   Answer: Children learn to use the computer on their own	https://www.hole-in-the-wall.com/Beginnings.html	© Hole-in-the-Wall Education Limited 2015	Hole-in-the-Wall Lightning the Sparks of Learning, 2015	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 & 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 Weighting
7. ______ is home to moving air currents, clouds, storms and other weather disturbances and phenomenon   Answer: Wind	https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/wind	© 1996 - 2022 National Geographic Society	https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/wind	Google	Boolean Logic
8. How does global warming affect polar bears?   Answer: polar bears loss their food and habitat	https://paperap.com/paper-on-global-warming-affects-polar-bears/	© 2016 – 2022 Paperap.com	Rods Pidcock, 04.03.2015	Google	Phrase searching
9. Coral reefs are built by colonies of coral polyps.   Answer: Coral 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	Coral Reef Alliance	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: Coral 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	Lorin Hancock	Google	Phrase searching
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: The mass bleaching of coral currently underway in the Lakshadweep is being caused by unusually high sea surface temperatures as the Indian Ocean.	https://news.mongabay.com/2016/05/indias-coral-reefs-experiencing-catastrophic-bleaching-heart-wrenching-scientist-says/	© 2022 Copyright Conservation news	Shreya Dasgupta, May 11, 2016	Google	Phrase searching
12. Compare the shape of the population pyramid of Singapore and Philippines in 2050?   Answer: Philippine population will decrease further to 144.49 million in 2050. Singapore population will increase to 6.40 million in 2050.	https://statisticstimes.com/demographics/country/singapore-population.php	© 2021 – StatisticsTimes.com	UN (World Population Prospects 2019)	Google	Boolean Logic

References:

Avenidas Re-Inventing Aging. Scavenger Hunt Winner Announced. Avenidas Media, 2020. Retrieved November 09, 2022.

https://www.avenidas.org/scavenger-hunt-winners-announced/