General Riddles

I help all living things to survive. I give shade to others. People use me for their various needs. I have rings to determine my age. Who am I?

Voiceless it cries, Wingless flutters, Toothless bites, Mouthless mutters.

What belongs to you but others use it more than you do?
Your Name

Which weighs more, a pound of feathers or a pound of bricks?
Neither, they both weigh one pound.

I am a four letter word. I am an animal. You use me to call your dear ones. Who am I?

If someone robbed you in the shower, what would you be?
An eye wetness.

Find the odd one out: level, civic, madam, eye, mouth
Mouth. Explanation: All the words except "mouth" are palindromes (reads the same backward and forward).

A ladder hangs over the side of a ship anchored in a port. The bottom rung touches the water. The distance between rungs is 20 cm and the length of the ladder is 180 cm. The tide is rising at the rate of 15 cm each hour. When will the water reach the seventh rung from the top?
If the tide is raising water, then it is raising the ship on water, too. So water will reach still the first rung.

I'm sometimes white, But most often I'm black. I take you there, But never bring you back. What am I?
A hearse.

A girl who was just learning to drive went down a one-way street in the wrong direction, but didn't break the law. How come?
She was walking.

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