Discussion
An EVS teacher asks her students to imagine and answer, "What would have happened if all birds were killed at once from earth ?" Such a question is :
Answer: C
The key gives a divergent question.
A divergent question is open-ended: it has no single correct answer and invites children to imagine, think creatively and give many possible responses. 'What would have happened if all birds were killed at once?' asks children to think of food chains, pests, seed dispersal and much else, with no single expected answer.
A convergent question has one correct answer. The question is also hypothetical in form, but in the classification of questions by the thinking they demand, an open-ended imaginative question like this is divergent. It is not a philosophical question.
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