Mountain life: How's the air up there?

Brains On! Science podcast for kids

American Public Media

Kids & Family, Education For Kids

4.4 • 13.5K Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

The ExPLORERR was built to go everywhere. That’s why this vehicle’s full name is: the Extremely Practical Land and Ocean Rover Exploring Remote Realms. And guess what? It has a recording studio built on-board! Good thing, because this episode was recorded while traveling up, up, up a mountain!

We discover some wildlife that lives at great heights as well as a rhyming ice cream salesman. Our pal and atmospheric scientist, Dr. Deanna Hence checks in to answer a popular question: if hot air rises, why is it so cold in the mountains? BRRRR! We also hear from NASA’s Dr. Dalia Kirschbaum, who has mountains of information about how mountains form.

Of course, there’s a fun Mystery Sound for you’re ears to explore! And lastly, but not leastly, our two new books came out today. Head to our books page to find out more about Road Trip Earth and Earth Friend Forever.

This episode was sponsored by:

Interlochen Center for the Arts (Interlochen.org/BrainsOn)

Staples (Staples.com)

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0:00.0	Hi, it's Molly from BrainsOn and Smash Boom Best with an important request for the curious
0:04.4	adults listening in today.
0:06.4	As you may know, the BrainsOn universe is public media.
0:10.2	Philanthropic donations from you help power this show and so many others that our team created
0:15.6	this year.
0:16.9	When you donate today, you can choose an extra special thank you gift, maybe kids stop
0:21.8	listening for a second if you want a surprise.
0:24.6	This gift would be a personalized message from me.
0:27.7	For the BrainsOn universe fan in your life and it will get there in time for the holidays.
0:33.7	Find more details and make your donation at brainson.org slash donate.
0:39.0	That's brainson.org slash donate.
0:42.2	Thank you so much for your support.
0:44.3	You're listening to BrainsOn, we're very serious about being curious.
0:48.0	BrainsOn is supported on part by a grant from the National Science Foundation.
0:54.2	Okay, this door trip has been amazing.
0:57.3	I can't believe we've traveled from the inner core of the earth all the way to the moon.
1:01.1	We've got so much great material for our new book, Road Trip Earth.
1:05.1	It's been epic.
1:06.4	People are going to love this book and I can't wait to show everybody my road trip photos.
1:11.3	Our road trip photos?
1:12.8	Well, they're mostly of me because let's face it, I'm everyone's favorite.
1:17.4	You mean you are your favorites?
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