Sunday, March 18, 2012

7th Science - 3/19/12

https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1HmjorC0fo5tYQtI7fmwRsGOyOQex9hYuOAyPFY2VXAI
Homework:  On LL - Use the internet for information
3/20
1.  What does Foucault’s pendulum prove?
2.  Why don’t people and other objects fly off Earth if it is rotating so fast?
3.  How does the Foucault pendulum demonstrate the Earth’s rotation? 

3/22 -
1.  What characteristics do you think enable a plant or animal to survive the breakup of a continent? Try to think of at least two characteristics. 
2.  Do you think the breakup of Pangaea during the Jurassic period led to the extinction of some dinosaurs and the evolution of other dinosaurs?
3.  Do you think that the breakup of Pangaea into Gondwanaland and Laurasia affected organisms originally living on Pangaea?