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Fun Kids Science Quest

Can You Dig to the Centre of the Earth? 🌍 ⛏️

Fun Kids Science Quest

Fun Kids

Kids & Family, Science, Education For Kids

4.5 β€’ 1.5K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 11 March 2026

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

This Week’s Big Questions!

You’ve been sending in your brilliantly curious questions, and this week…

πŸ“‘ James asks: What’s the difference between radio and satellite signals?
🌍 Etta wonders: What happens if you dig to the centre of the Earth?
β›½ Karis asks: What’s the difference between petrol and diesel?
πŸ“‘ Matty asks: Can a microwave heat food as hot as an oven?
😷 Rufus asks: Why do we cough?

And get ready to jump through a worm hole to Deep Space High, your local inter-galactic school in space. Join Mrs Higgs and her class as they learn about the satellites that go round and round the Earth, with very interesting jobs!

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0:00.0

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0:31.1

Hello, Explorer. My name's Dan, and it's time to travel across the universe to search for the answers to your questions.

0:45.4

Let's get ready for a brand new science quest. If you have a question that you want answered, anything rattling around your brain, just niggling at the edges, sticking their hand up and saying, pick me, I want to know, I want to be solved.

0:53.9

Well, we'll get the answer for you right here. Make sure you send in your question to the free Fun Kids app. You can do it at FunKidslive.com too. This week we are looking at

0:55.9

fuels, waves and deep holes. So let's get to it first up. A fantastic voice note sent in by James.

1:07.1

What's the difference between radio tower signals and satellite signals?

1:13.6

Thank you James. So radio signals are waves that travel through the air.

1:19.6

Movement of charged particles which carry energy. In that energy is information.

1:25.6

Now they're the lowest. They're the longest wave as well.

1:29.7

So they carry the least amount of information. Your radio, your device, whatever it is with an antenna,

1:36.4

it picks it up if it's close to the tower and it can interpret change that electrical wave energy

1:43.0

into sound which comes out of your speaker.

1:46.0

Well, satellites, they're not too different.

1:49.0

They use radio waves, but how they are used is slightly different because those waves are sent up to space first.

1:56.0

Satellites, which orbit, they zoom around the Earth, they pick pick up that signal beamed from somewhere down

2:04.1

here and then they send it back down to somewhere else on earth it does this because the satellite

2:10.3

is traveling all around so it can cover a much larger energy it can send signals to remote places

2:15.8

like deserts and jungles where there are no towers,

2:18.9

but people there still need the information. So it's really useful for GPS, which helps you use a map.

2:25.0

Maybe the grown-ups use a sat-nav in the car. It's really helpful for monitoring weather as well.

2:29.8

So satellites use radio signals, but in a much better way because they're in space so they

2:35.4

can push them out again to a much wider area. James, thank you very much for your voice note.

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