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Rock is a naturally occurring solid aggregate of one or more minerals or mineraloids. For example, the common rock, granite, is a combination of the quartz, feldspar and biotite minerals. The Earth's outer solid layer, the lithosphere, is made of rock.The scientific study of rocks is called petrology. 10 cool facts about rocks 1.The three types of rock found on the earth are sedimentary,Igneous and metamorphic rocks. 2.Molten rock below the earth's surface is called magma. When molten rock is expelled from a volcano,it's called Lava. 3.The earth's surface is made up of massive slabs of rock known as plates.The scientist called it as tectonic plates. When the plates move and collide,they can form mountain ranges and even cause earthquakes . 4.Generally we have a thought that rocks are hard.But it is not true. Most rocks are hard but not all of them .Some rocks such as those made up of the mineral calcite,are soft enough to scratch with your fingernail.

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Quick facts about Elephants *An elephant's trunk is actually an extended nose and upper lip.An adult African elephant's trunk is about two meters long. *Elephants uses trunks for smelling,touching,grasping,collect food and water,breathing,and even hurl objects. *Elephants can suck 7.5 liters of water into its trunk at a time. *Elephants will use their trunk to make loud trumpeting noise, in case,if it is threatened and give warnings to other elephants. * Elephants are fond of water and enjoy showering by sucking water into their trunks and spraying it all over themselves. Afterwards, they often spray their skin with a protective coating of dust. *The trunk contains an estimated 100,000 muscles and tendons in the trunk, giving it extreme flexibility and strength. *Asian elephants have one finger—like projection at the tip of the trunk and African elephants have two. These finger—like projections are used for grasping small and delicate objects. *

Tiger is the most ferocious, popular and charismatic megafauna in the world .The magnificent tiger is one of the most powerful predators in the world.   T9UG9UXHDYUW *Tigers are the largest members of the cat family. *The scientific name for the tiger is Panthera tigris. *There are five subspecies of tiger: Bengal, South China, Indochinese, Sumatran, and Siberian.Since the 1950s three subspecies of  tiger—Caspian, Bali, and Javan—are extinct.The five remaining species are also endangered due to poaching.They have been pushed to the edge of existence through hunting and habitat loss. *It weighs up to 363 kilograms, stretches 6 feet long, and has a 3-foot- (1-meter-) long tail. *A tiger retracts its claws as it walks, leaving no claw marks in its tracks. *A tiger's mighty roar can be heard as far as two miles (three kilometers) away. *Tigers are good swimmers and can swim upto 6 kilometres. *Tigers are carnivorous and they hunts for prey primarily by sight and sound.

The  Cabinet of India   consists of the  Prime Minister  and 35 Cabinet Ministers  is the ultimate decision-making body  of the  Government of India.   Secretariat Building,New Delhi- Prime Minister Office                                                           Highlights of Indian Leaders Pres. Pranab MUKHERJEE Vice Pres. Mohammad Hamid ANSARI Prime Min. Manmohan SINGH National Security Adviser Shivshankar MENON Dep. Chmn., Planning Commission Montek Singh AHLUWALIA Governor, Reserve Bank of India Duvvuri SUBBARAO  List of Cabinet Ministers, Minister of State with independent charges and State Ministers  S.no Portfolio Name 1 14th Prime Minister of India Dr Manmohan Singh Minister of Atomic Energy Minister of Space Minister of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions Planning 2 Minister of Defence A. K. Antony 3 Minister of Agriculture Sharad Pawar Minister of Food Processing Industries 4 Minister of Finance P. Chidambaram 5 Minister of External Affairs

Why Seven Wonders of the World? The number seven was chosen because the Greeks believed it to be the representation of perfection and plenty because it was the number of the five planets known anciently plus the sun and moon. The seven wonders were: Great Pyramid of Giza Hanging Gardens of Babylon Statue of Zeus at Olympia Temple of Artemis at Ephesus Mausoleum at Halicarnassus Colossus of Rhodes Lighthouse of Alexandria Today, the only ancient world wonder that still exists is the Great Pyramid of Giza. The Great Pyramid of Giza (also known as the Pyramid of Khufu or thePyramid of Cheops) is the oldest and largest of the three pyramids in the Giza Necropolis bordering what is now El Giza, Egypt. It is the oldest of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, and the only one to remain largely intact.Egyptologists believe that the pyramid was built as a tomb for fourth dynasty Egyptian Pharaoh Khufu (Cheops in Greek) over a 10 to 20-year period concluding ar

India  is a  federal  union of states   comprising  twenty-eight   states  and  seven  union territories . India STATE CAPITAL 1.Andra Pradesh Hyderabad 2.Arunachal Pradesh Itangar 3.Assam Dispur 4.Bihar Patna 5.Chhattisgarh Raipur 6.Goa Panaji 7.Gujarat Gandhinagar 8.Haryana Chandigarh 9.Himachal Pradesh Shimla 10.Jammu and Kashmir Srinagar and Jammu 11.Jharkhand Ranchi 12.Karnataka Bangalore 13.Kerala Thiruvananthapuram 14.Madya Pradesh Bhopal 15.Maharashtra Mumbai 16.Manipur Imphal 17.Meghalaya Shillong 18.Mizoram Aizawi 19.Nagaland Kohima 20.Orissa Bhubaneshwar 21.Punjab Chandigarh 22.Rajasthan Jaipur 23.Sikkim Gangtok 24.Tamil Nadu Chennai 25.Tripura Agartala 26.Uttaranchal Dehradun 27.Uttar Pradesh Lucknow 28.West Bengal Kolkata           Union Territories                              Capital 1.Andaman and Nicobar Isl