Analyst Questions

It is due to the deficiency of Vitamin A. Retinol which is present in vitamin A. Its deficiency causes night blindness. It is available in carrots. 

It forms slow crystallization of magma below Earth's surface.Granite is a hard light-colored igneous rock and it is composed mainly of quartz and feldspar with minor amounts of mica, amphiboles and other minerals it is mainly used for building and monuments

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.

The main source of organic matter in soil is the plant and animal tissue that decompose at each level of breakdown.

Indian state that has the maximum number of Lok Sabha constituencies is Uttar Pradesh with 80 Lok sabha seats.

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.