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 The Blue Marble: Your home planet.
Welcome to the Foote's Feats webpage. Explore this homepage by clicking on any image or green underlined word to discover expert knowledge available on the web. Scroll down the page for helpful links, and an overview of topics we will cover this year. Please visit the homework page often for updates on assignments. Due dates are posted weekly on the sidebar to the right.
Sixth Six Weeks:
PLATE TECTONICS TEST
After the test, take notes in your journal as you read these links about earthquakes.
1. Earthquake Tutorial: THE BIG ONE
2. SCIENCE NEWS
May 7, 2008: Earthquakes Shake Japan
Magnitude 6.8 earthquake hits 100 miles from Tokyo
Japanese Meteorological Society
USGS data
US Earthquake news
Nevada's mysterious earthquakes...
Thanks, Lydia L., for finding this article!
Do you know how this ancient poem relates to what we've studied in Earth Science?
The face of places, and their forms decay;
And that is solid earth, that once was sea;
Seas, in their turn, retreating from the shore,
Make solid land, what ocean was before.
Ovid, Metamorphoses, XV
(Ovid, the Roman poet, was 42 years old in the year one.)
How do rivers change over time?
Fossils, Rocks and Time Scavenger Hunt
Paleontology
Geologic Time
Fossils
Adaptation and Evolution
Genetics Review:
Mouse Party
What is DNA?
Click the mantis to view other unfortunate insects at the Fossil Amber page of the online Fossil Museum.
Virtual Fossils
Evidence of Evolution Quiz
How do Fossils Form? ppt
Paleomaps
Review how Earth's plates move.
New Video On Demand Link for Geology Unit
password: science
View the Physics 2000 demonstration Isotopes and Radioactivity
Follow the demos and take notes in your journal.
You'll discover many demonstrations here.
Relevant links discuss isotopes.
Scientists can determine the absolute age of rocks using radioactive isotopes.
Online Physics Demos will help you understand:
radioactivity
isotopes
half-life
radiometric dating
Make up Geologic Time Quiz
You may use the journal notes you took as you completed the online activity.
If you make an 80 or lower on the quiz, return to the online Geologic Time activity.
Take notes on each page.
If you made a 100 on the quiz....
Visit the online Fossil Museum
Open-journal quiz link:
Wegener's Conclusion Statement
Thursday, April 17 online assignment:
1. Geologic Time Activity Link available during seventh period.
Use the Geologic Time outline provided as you take journal notes from each page of this site.
2. The Phanerozoic Eon (544 mybp to present) is the "age of visible life." Once you have toured the Geologic Time link, consider what was happening with Earth's diverse life forms as the gradual changes in its landforms took place. For example, look at the online map to see how the position of the continents changed during Jurrasic Period. Review your Geologic Time notes and handout to consider the life forms existing during each Period of Geologic Time.
Here's the link: USGS website: Pangaea and Plate Tectonics
3. What about insects? What evidence of insects do we have? Try to determine which insect has been on Earth the longest.
 This praying mantis was trapped in tree sap sometime during the Pliocene.
Seafloor Spreading
Plate Tectonics
Continental Drift: Alfred Wegener's Idea
Pangaea
Paleontology Portal - click the map
Marianas Trench Info at Smarter Science.com
Fossils, Rocks and Time Booklet
ACTIVITY: Mapping the Cretaceous
Layers of the Earth
What's a mineral?
A mineral is a naturally occurring, inorganic solid with a definite chemical composition and an orderly arrangement of atoms. That's what!
MINERAL GROUPS
What's a rock?
Rock can be a mixture of minerals, volcanic glass, organic matter, or other materials.
How do rocks form?
Watch the Rock Hound animations to see how sedimentary, metamorphic and igneous rocks are formed.
Rock Stars What does your favorite crystal or gemstone reveal about you?
 We all know what the cover of our textbook looks like.
However, most people have never seen it come to life!
Michael C. took this photo in Palo Duro Canyon while hiking the Lighthouse Trail during Spring Break 2007. A funny thing happens when people go hiking. Sometimes we're so concerned about safety, we forget to simply look up from our path! Michael looked up from his hiking boots and thought "Hey! I've seen this view somewhere before...yeah, my science book!" Thanks for contributing your photo to the class webpage, Michael.
Review Games for EVAC! Quiz:
Volcano Research Project
EVAC! Webquest
Volcano Gallery: Many thanks to Vanessa for finding this website!
Volcano Galery: Thanks to Vanessa for finding this website!
During our class volcano project work in 2007, Kevin X. shared research
which revealed a volcanic eruption in the news February 27, 2007.
Two big lava flows burst out of Stromboli's side on Tuesday. Read the news by clicking on the photo.
IF YOU HAVE BEEN ABSENT, PLEASE USE STROMBOLI AS YOUR RESEARCH TOPIC. SEE HOMEWORK PAGE.
Stromboli is one of the most active volcanoes on Earth. It has been in nearly continuous eruption for about 2,000 years (some volcanologists suggest 5,000 years). Most of the present cone was well developed 15,000 years ago. This photo shows the volcano and town of Stromboli. Photographs courtesy of and copyrighted by Mike Lyvers.
Stromboli's coordinates: 38.8 N, 15.2 E Elevation: 2,900 feet (900 m)
Global Volcano Report
Legends about Volcanoes
Fault types and stresses
Earthquakes: Click this link for a map showing earthquakes that happened today!
TSUMANI
DISCOVER HOW ROCKS ARE FORMED
Igneous
Metamorphic
Turn a nice agate into a nice gneiss online
Sedimentary
Erosion and Deposition
Weathering of Rocks
Rock Cycle
Identify Rock Types : Play the Game online
END OF SPRING SEMESTER...SUMMER BREAK BEGINS ONCE WE REACH THIS POINT!
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Archived for 2008-2009 School Year Sequence
First Six Weeks: Experimental Design
After you finish this course, you'll have a much better idea of how your home planet functions. Seventh Grade Pre AP Science offers you a chance to create a sort of personalized Systems Guide for the planet. Your generation will add a great deal to our understanding of this beautiful Blue Marble. Make it so; make it a fun year, too!
Lab Safety: Click here for a copy of Safety Contract
Lab Equipment
Graphing
Project:
Try the tutorial How to use a triple beam balance.
Online Practice: Metric Measurement
The Power of Ten Video ENTER A SECRET WORLD
Create a Graph
Math Practice: Using Exponents
Second Six Weeks: Chemistry
Chemistry Test Link
Atoms and Elements: Building Blocks of the Universe
All About Atoms
Quarks
What is a particle accelerator?
Periodic Table Basics
Audio Downloads for Chemistry
Chemistry
Static Electricity Explained
 Ask Dmitri - Element Research Project
Task 1 Research Links
http://www.webelements.com/
Los Alamos Labs
Bohr Diagrams
Chem4kids.com
Atomic Structure Time Line: How Scientists Modeled the Atom
Task 2 Writing links
Dictionary
Surf net kids dictionary links
Task 3 Job Description links
Hydrogen for Kids
History and Uses for Elements
Jobs for Hydrogen
Isotopes of Hydrogen
The Chemistry of Fireworks (Pyrotechnics)
Nitrogen Cycle
For elements used in photography
Task 4 Resume links
Write a Resume for your Element
Element Resume: Format Requirements
You r element’s resume must include five categories of information
Copy and paste this guide into a word document.
Please do not use the Teen Resume Builder Website for the Element Resume.
1. Element’s Name (Centered)
2. Contact Information (Centered)
Use your element's column and row as its street address.
You may add a fictional city, state, zip code and phone number.
3. Goal: Describe the position you seek in one sentence.
4. Skill Set / Experience
List at least three types of work your element has experienced. This is simply three uses of your element.
5. Activities:
Is your element a metal, a non metal or a metalloid?
Based on its membership in this category, what are your element’s basic characteristics as a metal, a non metal or a metalloid?
Extra Credit:
Please use the online resume writer for you own resume.
Online Resume Writer
How to write your own first resume
ASTRONOMY NEWS: METEOR SHOWER
(Click here for a star map.)
Every year in October, Earth passes through a stream of dusty debris shed long ago by Halley's comet. When bits of comet dust -- most no larger than grains of sand -- strike Earth's atmosphere and disintegrate, they provide a meteor shower for sky watchers.
Sunday's meteor shower is called The Orionids because they appear to streak out of a point (called the radiant) in the constellation Orion. If your parents don’t mind your staying up late, look to the eastern sky just after midnight for the meteor shower.
Here are some tips from NASA for finding the Orionid radiant. It lies near the left shoulder of Orion the Hunter, roughly centered within an eye-catching triangle consisting of Sirius -- the brightest star in the sky -- and the giant planets Jupiter and Saturn.
For best viewing, don't stare directly at the radiant. Orionids that appear there will seem short and stubby -- a result of foreshortening. Instead, look toward any dark region of the sky about 90 degrees away. You'll see just as many Orionids, but they will seem longer and more dramatic. The tails of all Orionid meteors, no matter where they appear, will point back toward the radiant in Orion.
1. Complete an online activity which requires that you interpret the H-R Diagram.
You will print a copy of your work to turn in when you are finished. Click on the diagram to find the activity.
Stellar Life Cycles: Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram
Best Astronomy Photos of 2007
Graphing Game : Quarks
REALTOR PROJECT
Train to earn a Realtor's License with Solar System Realty's Method.
SSR hires only the SOL top agents in the System!
PLANET PROJECT OVERVIEW:
Each day you will complete a Project Task. You will receive daily grades for task completion. There are many missions to complete for each task. Do not fall behind in your training!
The final products of this project =
(1) A Planet Flyer (8.5" X 11") advertising property on the planet you researched.
(2) Model Client with sufficient adaptations to survive on the property you sold.
(3) Presentation of property and client model during the Realtor Convention Tuesday, December 11, 2007.
TASK I : Get to know the neighborhood.
The first task of your Realtor Training includes 4 missions.
Task I Mission 1 Complete the Background Research Packet
provided in class last Friday.
DIRECTIONS:
Use your textbook to complete the Planet Packet.
Here are a few sites to update the Space Probes:
Space Probes explained
NASA's Find A Mission website will help you identify space probes past, current and future.
Under "Missions Finder" click Solar System and a menu will drop.
If you have trouble updating space probes for some planets, it's acceptable to use information provided in your textbook.
Space Probes.
Finish this Mission at home. It is due Tuesday, December 4 with all other Task I Missions.
Check your work against the posted key. This work is an excellent guide for the Realtor Exam you will take later this week.
Task I Mission 2. Your Cosmic Address
DIRECTIONS:
Your future career as a Realtor will take you to the far reaches of our solar system.
Your cosmic address must be printed in your journal to assure its safe return should you lose it on a mission to sell property.
PROCEDURES:
Complete your Cosmic Address by reading material provided at these links:
BEST COSMIC ADDRESS LINK What is your Cosmic Address?
Interpret this diagram to see you Cosmic Address
Cosmic Address Activity.
Harvard University Cosmology website
Task I Mission 3: What happened to Pluto?
DIRECTIONS:
Realtors must be aware of the changing value of property on Pluto.
Pluto's recent demotion to Dwarf Planet status may present a challenge for Realtors selling property there.
Your Realtor license exam includes questions regarding Pluto's status.
PROCEDURES:
Read two articles found at the links posted here. Answer all questions.
Article 1 Cosmic Debate: What's Up with the Planets? The Pluto Controversy
Article 2 The Pluto Decision The Pluto Decision
Task I Mission 4: Location, Location, Location!
WHERE ARE WE LOCATED IN THE MILKY WAY GALAXY?
DIRECTIONS:
Our solar system is in one of the spiral arms of the Milky Way Galaxy.
Explore Jet Propulsion Lab's Guide to the Milky Way to practice recognizing our place in the galaxy.
PROCEDURES:
Answer all questions on the Galaxy Guidepost WS as you explore the Guide to the Galaxy Link
LINK: Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) Guide to the Galaxy
TASK for TUESDAY
Task II Space Travel Safety
DIRECTIONS:
Follow the links found within the outline.
Follow directions provided at each step of the outline.
PROCEDURES:
Create an outline like the one shown below as you answer each question.
Write answers on a page in your journal titled Task II: Space Travel Safety.
Procedures:
Explore each link.
Answer the questions; complete each task.
I. Effects of Space travel on your health
A. Your weight on other Planets, our Sun and Moon
Make a data table of your weight on all planets in our solar system.
B. Your age on other planets
Make a data table of your age on all planets in our solar system.
II. Hazards of Space Travel
A. Beware of the Asteroid Belt
1. Where is the Asteroid Belt?
2. Why is it a dangerous zone?
B. Kuiper Belt Dangers
1. Where is the Kuiper Belt?
2. What is found in the Kuiper Belt?
C. Avoid the Central Bulge of the Milky Way Galaxy
1. What is a Black Hole?Black Holes and Neutron Stars
(Thank you, Brett H. and Nick A. for the Journey to a Black Hole link!)
III. Measuring Distances in Space
A. Calculating distances in space
1. What is a light year?
2. What is an Astronomical Unit (AU)?
(Thank you, Danielle T. for finding this site!)
HOMEWORK TUESDAY NIGHT:
Study Solar System Realty's License Review Game
TASKS for WEDNESDAY
Task III
Mission I: Study Solar System Realty's License Review Game and Take the Realtor's License Exam.
(Your score will be logged as a quiz grade.)
Task IV:
Mission I: Draw a card to discover your assigned planet, moon or other celestial body.
Mission II: Glue a copy of the project grading rubric in your journal.
Use it as a guide for taking notes in your journal to create a rough draft of your planet flyer.
Links for research:
Planet Data 
SOLAR VIEWS! (Thank you, Gabby C., for discovering this excellent research source!)
SEDS (Students for the Exploration and Development of Space) was founded in 1980 at MIT and Princeton University.
Explore the SEDS website astronomy links while researching your planet.
The Sun: Spaceweather.com has current news about the Sun-Earth environment.
Planets: Tour the Solar System
Starry Skies Guide to the Solar System
Starry Skies Solar System Guide
WEEKEND TASKS: Build a model client and prepare your presentation.
Task V Know Your Client
Task VI Realtor Convention
FOOTE'S FEATS on Quia: online review games, quizzes and tests.
Venus Express Mission Article
NASA News Release: Venus in the News
Venus Express has exposed the true extent to which the Sun strips away the atmosphere of Venus.
This process could be an important contribution to the way the planet has evolved to become so different from the Earth.
Read another article about the European Space Agency Mission: Caught in the Wind of the Sun.
Scientists announced the discovery this week of a solar system similar to ours!
Click the image shown below to find a National Science Foundation article about the newly discovered solar system.
November 6, 2007 
OUR GALAXY: THE MILKY WAY
COSMOLOGY: THE STUDY OF THE UNIVERSE
Where are we in the Universe? Cosmic Address Activity.
How big is the Universe? Harvard University Cosmology website
Origin of the Universe:
STARS
Spectral Analysis Lab Background Reading
 Spectral Lines
Stellar Life Cycles: Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram
Constellations
Red Shift
Doppler Effect
Research and Inquiry: Famous Astronomers
Famous Physicists
History of Telescopes
MOON PHASES
Moon Phase Calendar
Birthday Moons Activity
Use this StarDate Moon Phase Calendar to find your Birthday Moon
MOON EXPLORATION
 Astronauts left footprints in the powdery soil (or dust) that covers the lunar surface. Photo courtesy of NASA.
Watch the first video every taken on the Moon.
 SCIENCE IN THE NEWS: SPUTNIK 50th ANNIVERSARY
COMETS, ASTEROIDS, METEORS
Comet in the news:
Thanks to Richard H. for sharing news of the comet 17P/Holmes
Asteroids:
Meteors:
Meteors: Meteor Shower Calendar for 2007
FUTURE SPACE EXPLORATION
Richard in Space: In October 2008, the world's first second generation astronaut will travel to space. Sign-up to receive updates of this Austin resident's travel plans. Space Adventures has your generation in mind as they work to make space travel for citizens possible!
 Big-time Astronomy News!
This illustration of the brightest supernova scientists have ever seen was released by NASA on Monday, May 7, 2007.
The gargantuan explosion ripped apart a star perhaps 150 times more massive than our sun in a galaxy relatively near ours. The explosion occurred long ago, but was first detected last September by a graduate student in Texas. Its light could be observed from Earth only after traveling many trillions of kilometers.
Forces in the Universe
SECOND HALF Third Six Weeks: Meteorology
Weather vs. Climate
Weather Systems
Atmosphere
Layers of the Atmosphere
Global Climate Change
Forecasting: Predicting the Weather
Fronts
Clouds
Storms
Water Cycle Review
Movement of Wind and Air Around the Globe
QUIA REVIEW SITES FOR FALL EXAM:
ASTRONOMY REVIEW
CHEMISTRY REVIEW
SCIENTIFIC METHOD and SAFETY REVIEW
Interactions in Earth's Systems:
Atmosphere, Weather, Climate and
Monday, February 4: Research and illustrate one assigned vocabulary word. Final product due tomorrow as class begins.
Weather Dictionary
mircroburst article
Friday, February 1:
Air pressure changes rule our daily weather. Once you learn to read an isobar map, you have skills to see into your future. (At least the future weather conditions will be less of a surprise!) Explore the links posted here to complete required background research for a science puzzle-solvers' lab next week.
1. Recipe card for Weather: Combine all ingredients in the troposphere, mix thoroughly and your will have weather!
Ingredients:
Temperature
Pressure
Volume
Density
Follow the links at Weather for Kids to take notes in your journal about each of the weather ingredients.
2. Weather Maps: Know the code
Complete the pressure activity in your journal, or you may create a word document and glue it into your journal later. If you complete each of the pages posted at this link, you will become a code-breaker for weather patterns.
Please do not print weather maps from the computer lab. The black backgrounds of weather maps use a great deal of ink!
Weather vs. Climate
Weather Systems
Atmosphere
Layers of the Atmosphere
Global Climate Change
PODCAST - Evolution in Action: Effects of Global Climate Change
Forecasting: Predicting the Weather
Fronts
Clouds
Storms
Water Cycle Review
WEATHER REVIEW
SKYWARD
Geography Quiz Review
Ocean Unit Quiz
After the quiz, you may continue exploring the Geography link.
You may also explore links about the lunar eclipse:
http://spaceweather.com/
NASA's Eclipse Page
Did you miss the eclipse? Here's what's "UP" in the sky tonight. Earth & Sky
 February 14, 2007 Monster Glowing Squid Blinds Prey!
In Search of Giant Squid...Calamari, anyone?
December 22, 2006 Japanese scientists capture video of Giant Squid.
Virtual squid dissection
Male Squid Anatomy: Zoolab website
Fifth Six Weeks: Oceanography Unit
"Never give up, for that is just the place and time
that the tide will turn." Harriet Beecher Stowe
Tides power point slides
Whale Shark CSI Links
Many thanks to Andrea Hitt, a marine biologist at the North Carolina Aquarium on Roanoke Island, for sharing the Whale Shark CSI!
Click on the photo below to learn about whale sharks.
 Ichthyology (The study of fish)
More Shark Detective Research Links!
So...What is El Nino, anyway?
Video of Upwelling
Upwelling in the Ocean
World Atlas Maps
Marine Food Chains
Another issue, directly relating to phytoplankton, involves the important connection between plankton and the average temperature of Earth. If carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere got too high, it could ultimately cause Earth's average temperature to rise. Plankton use up carbon in their breathing and produce about fifty percent of Earth's oxygen.
New York Times article: Human Impacts on the Seas
The most widespread human fingerprint is a slow drop in the pH of surface waters around the world as a portion of the billions of tons of carbon dioxide added to the atmosphere from fuel and forest burning each year is absorbed in water, where it forms carbonic acid.
OCEANS ALIVE! provided by Texas A&M.
Plate tectonics on the ocean floor and much more!
Did you know the Atlantic Ocean gets a little bigger every year?
Find out how:
ARE YOU A MUSICIAN? American musicians visit North Korea for the first time!
Watch this video
What is a current?
Click The Gulf Stream, painted by Winslow Homer in 1899, to find out.
:Another helpful link about Ocean Currents
WAVES
Skyward
FRIDAY ASSIGNMENTS:
1. Type a final copy of your wave lab conclusion statement.
Pay close attention to discussion at the beginning of class.
Follow format and requirements carefully.
Typed copy is due today.
2. On Sunday, the first oceangoing, wave-powered boat leaves Honolulu on a 3,780 nautical mile jouney. If the experimental boat reaches its desination along the coast of Japan, it will show that an environmentally friendly wave-powered boat not only works in the lab, but can also navigate in real-world conditions!
Read about the first wave-powered boat, and take notes in your journal.
3. View the Carbon Cycle Online Movie.
Read the text provided with the movie and take notes in your journal.
Take the quiz at the end of the movie.
4. Biogeochemical Cycles: Explore links
Glencoe Textbook page 540 briefly describes carbon and nitrogen cycle.
The links below offer a much higher-level description of the process.
Use the dictionary links for complete understanding.
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