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BRITAIN'S BIGGEST TREES: Exploring the mysteries of Giant Redwoods🌳

Fun Kids Science Weekly

Fun Kids

Education For Kids, Kids & Family, Science

4.41.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

It's time for another trip around the solar system on the BIGGER and BETTER Science Weekly!

This episode of the Fun Kids Science Weekly we continue our bigger and better podcast where we put YOUR questions to our team of experts, find out about one of the world's deadliest plants & learn all about why a Californian tree of gigantic proportions is flourishing in England's forests.

Dan starts with the latest science news, where we learn about why climate change is causing your Easter eggs to cost more money, a new species of Beetle discovered in Australia and Mathias Disney from the University College London Geography joins us to talk all about Giant Redwoods flourishing in the UK climate.

Then we delve into your questions where Dan explains how whirlpools are made and we pose Clara's question on how the sun burns despite there being no oxygen in space to Science Writer Tom Jackson

Dangerous Dan continues and we learn all about 'The Picture Plant'.

We pay a visit to Marina Ventura as she gets up close with water and we learn about why ocean's are so important to us.

What do we learn about?

- The effect climate change is having on your easter eggs?

- Australia's new species of Beetle

- California's Giant Redwoods flourishing in the UK

- How does the sun burn with no oxygen in space?

All on this week's episode of Science Weekly!

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0:00.0

All right explorers. I'm a bit bored of life down here on planet Earth, so let's see what the universe can tell us.

0:06.0

It's time for a brand new Fun Kids Science Weekly.

0:10.0

My name is Dan, welcome along. Thank you for following, for streaming, for listening.

0:17.0

This is our band, our club of excited explorers. We search out all the science secrets that not many people know about this

0:25.6

week you can hear why the largest trees in the world are suddenly quite at home in the UK.

0:35.9

They were very well protected. They were kind of isolated on this this northwest coast of California in an environment where not there's no other

0:40.3

kind of predators and there's not much in the way of competition and so that

0:44.5

allows them to grow for a very very long time and that in turn allows any kind

0:49.9

of tree to grow particularly very large.

0:53.0

Also we've got a genius answering one of your questions.

0:58.0

It's all about oxygen in space,

1:01.0

or rather why there is an oxygen in space.

1:04.0

It gives out a little tiny bit of its weight and turns it into pure energy, which is what makes the fiery effect of the sun.

1:11.0

So if you've got the weight of two hydrogen atoms and weighed them, they'd be slightly

1:16.5

heavier than the helium atom. And the difference is the light and the heat that comes out.

1:29.4

And you can find out everything about a deadly plant that has an ingenious way of capturing prey.

1:30.4

It's all on the way in a brand new fun kids science weekly.

1:34.0

Let's kick things off with your science in the news

1:42.0

and your Easter egg might cost more this year.

1:46.8

You see most chocolate is made from cocoa grown in West Africa but a humid heat wave has blasted the crops. It's been boiling there and

1:57.1

it's means there's much less the farmers and

2:05.0

chocolat makers can use. Experts say that it's human-induced climate change.

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