General Knowledge 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.

The ruling of ‘None of The Above’ (NOTA) option will not be applicable for voting in Rajya Sabha elections was made by a bench of Justices comprising CJI Dipak Misra and Justices AM Khanwilkar and DY Chandrachud of the Supreme Court.

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.

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When exposed to certain frequencies of radiation, such as radio waves, the subatomic particles called electrons that orbit an atom's nucleus will "jump" back and forth between energy states. Clocks based on this jumping within atoms can therefore provide an extremely precise way to count seconds.It is no surprise then that the international standard for the length of one second is based on atoms. Since 1967, the official definition of a second is 9,192,631,770 cycles of the radiation that gets an atom of the element called caesium to vibrate between two energy states.