General Science Questions

The study of Brain is called as Phrenology. 

Neurology is a branch of medicine dealing with disorders of the nervous system.

Nephrology is the study of kidney.

Neurobiology or Neuroscience is the study of the nervous system

About 150 - 200 species of plant, insect, bird and mammal become extinct every day or 24 hrs.

This is not an accurate but an estimation by U.N. Convention on Biological Diversity and Global Extinction Rates. It is also said that current extinctions were 'up to 100 times higher than the background rate.'

Air contains water in a gaseous form called water vapour.

Agriculture would be a good example of a purely competitive industry.

An eclipse happens when a planet or a moon gets in the way of the sun's light. Our planet Earth experiances two types of eclipses. They are Solar and Lunar eclipses.

Solar Eclipse : This occurs when The Sun, the Moon and the Earth are in a straight line. The moon being in middle blocks sun rays falling on the Earth.

Lunar Eclipse : The Sun, the Earth and the Moon are in a straight line. The Earth being in middle and moon in the shadow of Earth behind it.

When you can't hear it is called as Deaf.