How heavy is North America?

Moment Of Um

Lemonada Media

Kids & Family, Education For Kids

4.4 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

You can use a scale to measure how heavy something is…but what if that something is really big? Like, really, REALLY big? Like the WHOLE continent of North America? There’s no scale big enough, so you gotta use science and math! We asked geoscience grad student Kelsey Woody to help us find the answer.

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0:00.0	From the brains behind brains on, this is the moment of um.
0:05.6	Answering those questions that make you go, um, um, moment of um,
0:14.0	uh, um, um,
0:15.0	uh, um,
0:18.0	uh, um, um, Moment of Um, um, um,
0:22.8	Moment of Um, comes to you from APM Studios.
0:25.2	I'm Mark Sanchez.
0:26.4	Um.
0:28.4	O' boy, it's here.
0:32.2	It's finally here. new super powerful super smart digital scale the
0:37.9	weight master 5,000 now I can finally organize all the tools in my workshop by size, weight, and color.
0:47.0	Let's see, power on, all right.
0:50.0	Let's take her for a test drive and measure some weights.
0:55.0	Ooh, what about this blueberry muffin?
0:57.0	Mm, 1.37 pounds of fluffy deliciousness.
1:01.0	And how about this dictionary?
1:04.7	5.6 pounds of words. Oh, so cool.
1:09.6	Oh my gosh, I want to weigh everything my dog my pal sandin a water buffalo a redwood tree a blue whale a glacier
1:20.2	all of North America.
1:23.0	Oh, you're right, Weightmaster 5,000.
1:28.0	North America is thousands of miles wide and long.
1:32.0	It's just a little too big to fit on top of you. But that doesn't mean
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