General Science Questions

The closet point in the Moon's orbit to Earth is called perigee whereas the farthest point in the Moon's orbit to Earth is called apogee.

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

The purpose of defibrillation is to stop the chaotic, disorganized contraction of the cardiac cells. Defibrillation is a technique used in emergency medicine to terminate ventricular fibrillation or pulseless ventricular tachycardia. It uses an electrical shock to reset the electrical state of the heart so that it may beat to a rhythm controlled by its own natural pacemaker cells.

Plants developing in dry conditions are called as xerophytes.

Most stars are at main sequence point in their life cycles.