Simon's Earth Evolution Part 2
Science Adventure Stories For Kids
Fact Finding Frog
4.2 • 526 Ratings
🗓️ 7 December 2022
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Where can you check out 700 million years of history in 25 minutes?
Right here in the second half of Simon's Evolution adventure, that's where.
There's an ice age, loads of extinctions, a close up look at flying reptiles, a meteor as big a s a mountain and more volcanos than you can shake a stick at!
Hold on tight, it's a wild ride.
ALL 38 OF SIMON'S ORIGINAL EPISODES ARE AVAILABLE AT simonsadventurestories.bandcamp.com
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to part two of this mobile museum adventure. |
| 0:04.0 | At the end of part one, you were underwater in an ancient ocean, |
| 0:09.0 | investigating something that's about to change the atmosphere completely. |
| 0:14.0 | Here comes Simon. |
| 0:16.0 | What we're looking at is something that's never, ever happened on the earth before. |
| 0:23.6 | Photosynthesis. |
| 0:26.6 | Can you see all those little bubbles on the outside of the bacteria columns? |
| 0:33.6 | Those are bubbles of oxygen. They get released when the bacteria turn the sun's energy into glucose to feed themselves. |
| 0:46.3 | Eventually, that oxygen will fill the whole atmosphere. |
| 0:51.3 | But that's going to take a really long time. |
| 1:00.0 | Whoa! |
| 1:01.0 | Unreal, Batmobile! |
| 1:03.0 | We're already back in space! |
| 1:06.0 | And the timer is down to 700 million years ago. |
| 1:11.6 | I'd love to have your remote control, Chloe. |
| 1:14.6 | We've just jumped forward two billion years. |
| 1:18.6 | And I can't even work out how to fast forward |
| 1:22.6 | to the end of a movie on my TV. |
| 1:25.6 | You'll be glad we're both up here and not down there on the earth right now. |
| 1:31.6 | Can you see in your mind that it doesn't even look like the earth? It's completely covered in ice. |
| 1:40.7 | And it looks like a giant snowball. It's definitely snow place like home. |
| 1:49.0 | But it does look cool. |
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