Analyst Questions

Tectonic plates are pieces of Earth's crust and uppermost mantle, together referred to as the lithosphere. These plates which float on and travel independently over the mantle and much of the earth's seismic activity occurs at the boundaries of these plates.

The seven major plates are the African plate, Antarctic plate, Eurasian plate, Indo-Australian plate, North American plate, Pacific plate and South American plate.

Volcanoes usually form along plate boundaries , where tectonic plates are either moving towards or away from one another. They may be convergent or divergent.

Dr Manmohan Singh also announced that the year 2012 would be celebrated as the National Mathematics Year. The Indian mathematical genius Srinivasa Ramanujan was born on 22 December 1887 and died on 26 April 1920.

An enzyme speeds up a reaction by lowering the activation energy which is done by catalysts to increase the rate.

Photosynthesis is the process that converts solar energy into chemical energy. During the stage of light-dependent reactions involving photosystems I and II in photosynthesis, O2 produced.

Molten rock inside the earth is called Magma.

Atoms of the same element can have same atomic number and number of electrons since, the atomic number is the number of protons and the number of protons and eectrons are the same in an element.

Hence, the atoms of the same element may differ in their atomic mass since it depends on the number of neutrons it holds and such atoms are called isotopes.

The Khilafat movement, also known as the Indian Muslim movement (1919–24), was a pan-Islamist political protest campaign launched by Muslims of British India led by Shaukat Ali, Mohammad Ali Jauhar and Abul Kalam Azad.