General Science Questions

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

Collisions occur at curves because speed on the approach is too great.

Transported soils form from weathered material deposits, which are transported by natural forces to a new site, away from the site of origin.

Laterite soils are a tropical soil and possess a great amount of iron and aluminum. Due to its high iron oxide content they look like rusty-red coloration.

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.

J. J. Thomson discovered electrons in the year 1897.

Ernest Rutherford discovered protons in 1911.

James Chadwick discovered neutrons.

Lutheranism, the branch of Christianity that traces its interpretation of the Christian religion to the teachings of Martin Luther. 

Julius Robert Oppenheimer was an American theoretical physicist and professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley. Oppenheimer was the wartime head of the Los Alamos Laboratory and is among those who are credited with being the "father of the atomic bomb" for their role in the Manhattan Project, the World War II undertaking that developed the first nuclear weapons. The first atomic bomb was successfully detonated on July 16, 1945, in the Trinity test in New Mexico.