MIDWEEKLY: Why Do Nettles Sting? 🌿😖
Fun Kids Science Weekly
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🗓️ 11 June 2025
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Welcome back to the Fun Kids Science Mid-weekly!
Why do we sleep? What’s in our blood? What causes earthquakes? Why do nettles sting — and what’s the deal with elephant trunks? We’ve got the answers in this jam-packed episode full of weird, wild science!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome Explorer to a brand new Fun Kids Science Midweekly. My name is Dan. This is your speedy science fix every Wednesday. This week, Joe asks what the science is behind earthquakes. Keo wonders what's inside our blood. Madison is on asking what's the reason behind |
| 0:24.5 | sleeping. Cameron is intrigued to know why elephants have a trunk and let's start with Finian because |
| 0:30.0 | we're getting to summer who's wondering why we get stung by stinging nettles. |
| 0:40.9 | Can you talk about the science behind earthquakes? |
| 0:43.0 | Thank you. I love your podcast. |
| 0:45.5 | What is the science behind earthquakes? |
| 0:55.3 | So, the earth is made up of huge slabs of ground and rock. |
| 0:57.5 | They're called tectonic plates. |
| 1:02.6 | These giant land masses fit together, a bit like a jigsaw. |
| 1:08.1 | And earthquakes are caused by the sudden release of energy stored in the earth's crust, |
| 1:09.5 | those tectonic plates. |
| 1:13.0 | What happens is these plates kind of that almost flow on liquid beneath them. They're in constant motion because the middle of |
| 1:19.4 | the earth is very hot, so it's bubbling away, it's heating up that liquid. So these tectonic |
| 1:23.6 | plates are always moving slightly. They're always shifting. And the boundaries between these |
| 1:29.8 | plates where they touch is where most earthquakes occur because suddenly they will slip, they will |
| 1:36.6 | slide, they will grind on each other. And that's why an earthquake happens. There is a huge |
| 1:42.5 | amount of energy that's released as the ground under your feet shifts and slides beneath you. These tectonic plates move alongside each other. And that's why we get earthquakes. It's them sliding, them releasing that energy. Now earthquakes are measured using something called seismographs. They record how often |
| 2:03.7 | seismic waves happen, how big they are, how strong they are, how long they're going on for. |
| 2:08.4 | It's measured on the Richter scale that you might heard of. That judges how great an earthquake is, |
| 2:14.1 | how much energy has been released by these shifting tectonic plates and then the |
| 2:18.8 | seismic waves, Joseph. Thank you very much for that question. Let's move inside your body right now. |
| 2:27.0 | This is from Keoho Who is 10, who wants to know what's in your blood? Well, blood is made of cells |
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