World Scholars Cup: Social Studies 49 Correctly Answered Questions Latest Update

Presistance forecasting {Ans: -used for very short term forecast -orks on the simple assumption that wind speed in an hour's time will be the same as it is at the moment. Despite the huge amount of investment that has been put into wind forecasting in the past decade, persistence "is still the benchmark" for short-term forecasting, but rarely accurate when lookin g at more long term cases.}Cleromacy {Ans: -a form of sortition, casting of lots, in which an outcome is determined by means that normally would be considered random, such as the rolling of dice, but are sometimes believed to reveal the will of God, or other supernaturalentities.}I Ching {Ans: -an ancient divination text and the oldest of the Chinese classics. -Uses a type of divination called cleromancy, which produces apparently random numbers. Four numbers, 6 to 9, are turned into a hexagram, which can then be looked up in the I Ching book, arranged in an order known as the King Wen sequence.}Michio Kaku {Ans: (Janurary 24/ 1947 -) - theoretical physicist, futurist and science popularizer. - Written several books about the future.}2012 Doomsday Phenomenon {Ans: a range of theological beliefs about death and