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🗓️ 12 July 2024
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The Earth is made up of giant masses of land called continents. There are seven continents, but which one came first? Where did it come from? We asked geologist Annie Bauer 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. |
0:04.0 | Moment of um. |
0:09.0 | Moment of um comes to you from APM Studios. |
0:12.0 | I'm Ruby Guthrie. |
0:13.0 | Um... |
0:15.0 | One thing about me, I love to travel. |
0:19.0 | I really like visiting places I've never been to before. I think it's so exciting. |
0:24.0 | Plus it's a great way to try new foods, meet new people, and maybe even learn a new language. |
0:30.1 | I grew up traveling a lot, mostly because I have family that lives all over the world. |
0:36.0 | My grandparents are in Australia and I also have family in France. |
0:40.0 | And can I let you in on a little secret? |
0:43.0 | One of my goals in life is to visit every continent. |
0:47.0 | The continents are the different chunks of land here on Earth. |
0:50.0 | There are seven total. |
0:52.0 | North America, South America, Africa, Asia, Europe, |
0:56.5 | Oceania, which includes Australia, and last but certainly not least, Antarctica. |
1:02.4 | One of our listeners had a question about this too. How was the first |
1:06.2 | piece of land created? This is a really interesting question and the correct answer to this question is we don't know and we don't know where it was. |
1:17.0 | Hi, my name is Annie Bauer. I am a professor at University of Wisconsin in Madison, Wisconsin, and I am a |
1:24.4 | geocrinologist, which means I date rocks, and I don't mean that I take them on |
1:28.6 | dates. I actually use radioactive decay of different elements to determine how old rocks are. So the planet when it was first |
1:34.8 | forming was actually probably mostly magma and whatever when maggos at the surface it's called |
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