Playing Sports, Staying Healthy. Organized athletics are woven into the fabric of the American tradition. Millions of boys and girls participate in baseball, basketball, track and field, and other sports as part of club and/or school teams. In addition to its established health benefits, sports participation has been lauded for fostering such basic values as fair play, competitiveness and achievement.
The periodic table contains seven rows of elements. The lanthanide series belongs to row six as elements 57-71.
The periodic table we use today is based on the one devised and published by Dmitri Mendeleev in 1869. Mendeleev found he could arrange the 65 elements then known in a grid or table so that each element had: 1. A higher atomic weight than the one on its left.