November 1, 2024 • 16 mins
Let’s go deep into the world of volcanoes! Join Emily and Luis in this exciting discovery of the power behind fire mountains—from a natural museum replica to an explosive game show with Sam Mitchell, a globe-trotting adventurer and volcano lover! In this episode of the Lingokids Podcast, you’ll also learn fun facts about lava rocks, why volcanoes are so important to our planet and, most importantly, where the delicious chocolate lava cake gets its name from!
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Starring Emily Calandrelli as Herself and Parker James Logie as Luis
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
I have seen a couple of volcanic corruptions in person,
and if you saw it at nighttime, you've just seen
these red explosions every ten to fifteen minutes. So what
we do in my kind of research expeditions is we
go out on large ships out to sea and we
(00:22):
go to an area where maybe there's a volcano on
the seafloor.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
That's Sam Mitchell, a globe trotting volcanologist who has faced
the tallest volcanoes on land and the deepest ones under
the Seven Seas. Welcome to Growing Up with Emily, a
Lingo kids podcast. It helps kids discover how to be
whatever they want to be. Join us on an epic
(00:49):
adventure to Ungover the secrets behind awesome skills, cool hobbies,
and the incredible journeys of people who followed their dreams.
In this episode, and I get a closer look at
fire mountains and what being a volcanologist is all about. Louise,
(01:31):
we shouldn't run in a natural history museum, but look, Emily,
it's a giant skeleton.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
This museum is such a cool place. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
I didn't know you were that much into skeletons and rocks,
but hey.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
I need to take a picture of the skeleton. Come on, MAXI.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
Wait, Luise, I think you dropped something.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
No, Maxie, those bones aren't for you dogs on the leash.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
Please you're this, Maxie.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Come on, okay, don good boy? Now one, two, three, smile.
Awesome picture.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Phew you guys, run fast here, Louise, you drop this rock?
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Oh thanks, Emily. It's a gift from my mom.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Look at these colors, gray but also black, and I
see some green on there too.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
It looks beautiful, yes, and it's kind of spiky too.
I've never seen a rock like this, Emily.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Oh yeah, it's a rare fine Louise, let me take
a closer look.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
I think this one.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Is Do you know where it's from?
Speaker 4 (02:39):
Hmm, well it might be from a volcano.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Volcano. Is that one of those giant mountains that spitfire.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Yes, basically, it's an opening in the Earth's crust. And
there's a room in this museum with a replica.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
Let's go see it.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Let's go come on there.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
It is the Fuego Volcano, one of the most active
volcanoes in the world. It spit ashes one hundred times
a day.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Whoa the volcano goes girl like MAXI.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Yes, sometimes they tremble and make the earth shake, Luis,
why don't you press this button under the fuego replica?
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Oh, I don't know what if it starts shaking the earth.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Oh, it's only a replica. It won't make the earth tremble.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
There's many things that volcanoes can teach us about our planets.
One it's that we have to be patients with nature.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Oh who's that? That's Sam Mitchell, an incredible traveler and volcanologist.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
Volcano is their visual They're explosive. You can see the larber,
you can see these big columns of ash and seem
coming out of them. So I've seen these things with
my own eyes, and I think that was the biggest appeal.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
I just love how much Sam loves volcanoes, so, Luis.
A volcanologist is someone who tries to understand how and
why volcanoes go boom. They also help communities to stay
safe from volcanic eruptions.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
So volcanologists are superheroes.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Yes they are. This volcanologist's name is Sam Mitchell. He
has explored the most dangerous volcanoes from all around the world.
I'm glad you recorded a video for the museum.
Speaker 5 (04:48):
There's so many wonderful things that volcanoes can give to us,
but we also always have to understand their danger, so
we always have to appreciate nature and how powerful, you.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
Know, Louise.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Volcanoes help our planet be a place where we can
actually live in. Lots of natural gases that come out
of volcanoes help the earth stay warm all year round,
no matter the seasons.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Stay warm. That reminds me, Emily. I et a volcano once.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
You what what do you mean?
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Yeah, it was made of chocolate and it was warm too,
and it had a hole with hot chocolate home. Yum,
it was so good.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Oh you mean a chocolate lava cake.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
I love that dessert too. We can have one later, yes,
please please.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Do you know why it's called a chocolate lava cake, Louise?
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Nope? Why because lava.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Is molten rock that comes out from a volcano, just
like hot chocolate. And did you know that when actual
lava is still underground, it's called magmag.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Well, what a cool name.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
It is cool when it's actually very hot.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
I get it, kind of like extremely hot chocolate.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
But Emily, what does chocolate have to do with this rock.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Hmm, excellent question, Louise. Imagine if your hot chocolate came
out of its volcano biscuit, but instead of eating it,
you let it just sit there.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
That would be a silly thing to do. But okay,
for how long?
Speaker 4 (06:28):
Just start with maybe an hour?
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Ouch? I guess after that my hot chocolate is no
longer hot?
Speaker 4 (06:35):
Exactly right? And what do you think will happen if
you leave it there for even longer?
Speaker 3 (06:40):
I guess it'll become less gooey and eventually.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
Eventually it becomes hard bingo.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
So my rock could be frozen lava.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
I'm not one hundred percent sure, but it might be.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Let's ask someone, let's find out.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
I'm pretty sure we can ask Sam Mitchell himself. Really, yes,
because he's our.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
Special guest for today's talking game show.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Awesome.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Yes, Maxie, you can come, but you promise you won't
be barking the whole time.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
Okay, Okay, you can howl.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Let's go.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Welcome to our growing up talking game show. I'm Emily
and this is Luis, your host.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Hi everyone, I'm Louise and this is Maxy, my assistant
for today.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Please welcome our guest tonight geologist and volcanologist Sam Mitchell.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Hey, Emily, what's up.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Sam has traveled across the USA, New Zealand, Japan, and
all the way to the Pacific Ocean to study and
witness volcanoes of all types.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Let the game show begin. Thanks. Today we're gonna play riddles. Sam.
Your job is to guess the riddle before Maxie howells.
That means the time is run out. Sounds good, Okay, sure, awesome.
My riddles will be all about volcanoes and fun facts.
Here we go. Number one, I'm as large as the
(08:12):
world's largest ocean, and my name's a cool country song.
What am i?
Speaker 5 (08:19):
Ooh?
Speaker 1 (08:19):
This is really really tricky. Oh, the world's largest ocean.
So that's the Pacific Ocean. A cool song. I think
that's the Ring of Fire.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Yes, it's the Pacific Ring of Fire. And what exactly
is it? Emily.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
It's the longest chain of volcanoes across the Pacific Ocean.
Because the volcanoes frequently erupt and fiery explosions, the region
is known as the Ring of Fire.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
And what about the song?
Speaker 4 (08:48):
This song?
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Ring of Fire is a popular country song by Johnny Cash.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Thanks, Emily, that's so cool. Okay, Riddle number two. I'm
well known by Taurus today, even though it's been a while.
I'm so sorry about Pompeii. Who am I.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Sorry about Pompeii. That sounds to me like Mount Vesuvius
in Naples, Italy.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Correct. Mount Vesuvius is one of the most famous volcanoes
in the world.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
Yes, it had a.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Very powerful eruption a long time ago, and it buried
an ancient Roman city called Pompei.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Yes, interesting thing about that site. There's also another small
town that doesn't get visited as much, called Herculaneum, and
that was buried by mud. And that's actually it's smaller,
but it's better preserved than Pompeii because of how it
was buried.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
Cool.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
I didn't know that. I'll make a note about it
when I go to Italy sometime.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Bonus fact.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Okay, speaking of bonus facts, I have a bonus riddle
to share.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
Ooh, I didn't see that one coming.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Yes, and this one's my favorite. Here it goes. You
can find me in your house glowing a lot at night.
I promise I'm harmless at your desk, even if my
name says something else. What am I.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Something you can have in your house. This is I'm
thinking deep about this one, and maybe I don't need
to think so difficult.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
The answer is lava lamp.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Okay, very good.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
Yeah, lava lamps are cool lamps that heat up and
make gooey bubbles.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
But they only have wax, not real lava.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Yes, yeah, thankfully no real lava inside of those. They
demonstrate how magma can move up within the ground and
also move down at the same time, so the hots
of bits rise and the cool of bits fall down,
and you can see that inside lava lamps.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
I didn't know they were like actual magma.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
There we go, Sam, this was fun.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Thanks for playing, and thanks MAXI for insisting. Now let's
talk to Sam about the cool adventures volcanologists get to have.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Emily, can I, please, please please have the first question
after playing the game with Sam, I really want to
ask him one thing.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
Sure, Luise, fire away.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
Sam. Have you seen a volcano with lava in person?
Speaker 4 (11:16):
Ooh, that's called a volcanic eruption.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Yes, I have seen a couple of volcanic eruptions in person.
One of them is Estromboli, which is in Italy. Back then,
that was a volcano that used to erupt very very frequently.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
And if you saw it at nighttime, you just see
these red explosions every ten to fifteen minutes. And then
I've also seen lava flowes in Hawaii as well during
an eruption.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
It must be so beautiful to see in person. And
how old were you when you first got into volcano, Sam?
Speaker 1 (11:51):
I was around eleven years old when I started getting
interested in these things. With my mom, we'd pick up books,
bring them back home, and we sit there and go
through these books together. Some of them were more like textbooks,
so they were more like scientific Some of them were
a bit more adventurous, with lots of pictures and descriptions
about places around the world. So I just I started reading.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
I want one of those books. What cool volcano can
I read about? Sam? What's your favorite one?
Speaker 1 (12:20):
So I think I would have lots of favorite volcanoes,
but I'd say the favorite one that's the most interesting
to me is one in Tanzania called Oldoinno Lengai.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
Hold on, Emily, did you get that name again?
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Yes, it's Oldoino Lengai. It means mountain of God for
the Massai tribes.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Volcanoes have epic names everywhere. Why is this one so special?
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Because it erupts a very special type of lava, and
this lava when it erupts out, it's colder than a
lot of lava's around the world, so it doesn't shine
red orange. It's actually black, and it's as runny as water,
so it's really really interesting. And then when it down
it turns into a white rock.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
It's a cookies and cream volcano.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Ooh, sounds delicious. What other types of volcanoes do you study?
Speaker 1 (13:09):
The volcanoes I study. You're actually in the ocean and
on the sea floor. So what we do in my
kind of research expeditions is we go out on large
ships out to sea and we go to an area
where maybe there's a volcano on the sea floor, and
we will send scientific equipment down to the sea floor
to go and collect samples.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
I never thought that volcanoes could get you to the
deepest depths of the ocean. It sounds like you can
see Earth like no one has seen it before.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Yes, the special moment for me was we were going
down in this submersible all the way down to the
sea floor. It took us about twenty minutes to get there.
And we went six hundred meters deep, so over two
thousand feet and when we arrived you just see the
sea floor through them through the window in the submersible,
(13:59):
and you're the very first person who has maybe ever
seen that part of the sea floor. So that was
incredibly special.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
Wow. Sam, you like the first man on the Moon,
but underwater. Ooh, nice one, Louise, Sam, I've been wanting
to ask this for so long. Here, I have this rock.
It's really nothing special. My mom gave it to me,
she brought it from a trip. How can I know
if it's a volcanic rock.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Oh, there's lots of little things. Sometimes you can't always tell.
Sometimes rocks can be very good at keeping their secrets.
And if you can see these little green round crystals
in there, that might mean it's a special type of
volcanic rock or basalts.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
I think I see no crystals here.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Another thing you can look for is lots of holes
in your rock. So magma when it's in the ground
and is full of bubbles of gas. So if there's
lots of little holes, those are where the bubbles of
gas used to be trapped. And when the rock cools down,
there's bubbles of gas get trapped and they remain as
little holes in your rock.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
Yeah, this one's like cheese, but with even more holes.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
Then I think it's safe to.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
Say that this rock is volcanic rock.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Maxie, thank you so much for helping us out. Sam.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
Louise, what do you think about volcanoes?
Speaker 3 (15:21):
I think they're super important for our planet. They're also
beautiful but also dangerous and super duper powerful. And that
you can study volcanoes from the depth of the oceans.
I'd love to know so much more about them.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
Should we get that lava cake now?
Speaker 3 (15:36):
Yes, just with no ashes and gases. Please.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Thanks for tagging along on this episode of Growing Up
about the exciting adventures of volcanologists, and remember a little listener,
dream big, and always stay curious.
Speaker 4 (15:52):
Louise, are you ready for more adventures?
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Wait? There's more?
Speaker 2 (15:56):
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one kids learning app, Lingo Kids. It has tons of videos,
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Speaker 3 (16:13):
Love
I have seen a couple of volcanic corruptions in person,
and if you saw it at nighttime, you've just seen
these red explosions every ten to fifteen minutes. So what
we do in my kind of research expeditions is we
go out on large ships out to sea and we
(00:22):
go to an area where maybe there's a volcano on
the seafloor.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
That's Sam Mitchell, a globe trotting volcanologist who has faced
the tallest volcanoes on land and the deepest ones under
the Seven Seas. Welcome to Growing Up with Emily, a
Lingo kids podcast. It helps kids discover how to be
whatever they want to be. Join us on an epic
(00:49):
adventure to Ungover the secrets behind awesome skills, cool hobbies,
and the incredible journeys of people who followed their dreams.
In this episode, and I get a closer look at
fire mountains and what being a volcanologist is all about. Louise,
(01:31):
we shouldn't run in a natural history museum, but look, Emily,
it's a giant skeleton.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
This museum is such a cool place. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
I didn't know you were that much into skeletons and rocks,
but hey.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
I need to take a picture of the skeleton. Come on, MAXI.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
Wait, Luise, I think you dropped something.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
No, Maxie, those bones aren't for you dogs on the leash.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
Please you're this, Maxie.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Come on, okay, don good boy? Now one, two, three, smile.
Awesome picture.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Phew you guys, run fast here, Louise, you drop this rock?
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Oh thanks, Emily. It's a gift from my mom.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Look at these colors, gray but also black, and I
see some green on there too.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
It looks beautiful, yes, and it's kind of spiky too.
I've never seen a rock like this, Emily.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Oh yeah, it's a rare fine Louise, let me take
a closer look.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
I think this one.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Is Do you know where it's from?
Speaker 4 (02:39):
Hmm, well it might be from a volcano.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Volcano. Is that one of those giant mountains that spitfire.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Yes, basically, it's an opening in the Earth's crust. And
there's a room in this museum with a replica.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
Let's go see it.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Let's go come on there.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
It is the Fuego Volcano, one of the most active
volcanoes in the world. It spit ashes one hundred times
a day.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Whoa the volcano goes girl like MAXI.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Yes, sometimes they tremble and make the earth shake, Luis,
why don't you press this button under the fuego replica?
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Oh, I don't know what if it starts shaking the earth.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Oh, it's only a replica. It won't make the earth tremble.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
There's many things that volcanoes can teach us about our planets.
One it's that we have to be patients with nature.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Oh who's that? That's Sam Mitchell, an incredible traveler and volcanologist.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
Volcano is their visual They're explosive. You can see the larber,
you can see these big columns of ash and seem
coming out of them. So I've seen these things with
my own eyes, and I think that was the biggest appeal.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
I just love how much Sam loves volcanoes, so, Luis.
A volcanologist is someone who tries to understand how and
why volcanoes go boom. They also help communities to stay
safe from volcanic eruptions.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
So volcanologists are superheroes.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Yes they are. This volcanologist's name is Sam Mitchell. He
has explored the most dangerous volcanoes from all around the world.
I'm glad you recorded a video for the museum.
Speaker 5 (04:48):
There's so many wonderful things that volcanoes can give to us,
but we also always have to understand their danger, so
we always have to appreciate nature and how powerful, you.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
Know, Louise.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Volcanoes help our planet be a place where we can
actually live in. Lots of natural gases that come out
of volcanoes help the earth stay warm all year round,
no matter the seasons.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Stay warm. That reminds me, Emily. I et a volcano once.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
You what what do you mean?
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Yeah, it was made of chocolate and it was warm too,
and it had a hole with hot chocolate home. Yum,
it was so good.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Oh you mean a chocolate lava cake.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
I love that dessert too. We can have one later, yes,
please please.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Do you know why it's called a chocolate lava cake, Louise?
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Nope? Why because lava.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Is molten rock that comes out from a volcano, just
like hot chocolate. And did you know that when actual
lava is still underground, it's called magmag.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Well, what a cool name.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
It is cool when it's actually very hot.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
I get it, kind of like extremely hot chocolate.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
But Emily, what does chocolate have to do with this rock.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Hmm, excellent question, Louise. Imagine if your hot chocolate came
out of its volcano biscuit, but instead of eating it,
you let it just sit there.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
That would be a silly thing to do. But okay,
for how long?
Speaker 4 (06:28):
Just start with maybe an hour?
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Ouch? I guess after that my hot chocolate is no
longer hot?
Speaker 4 (06:35):
Exactly right? And what do you think will happen if
you leave it there for even longer?
Speaker 3 (06:40):
I guess it'll become less gooey and eventually.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
Eventually it becomes hard bingo.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
So my rock could be frozen lava.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
I'm not one hundred percent sure, but it might be.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Let's ask someone, let's find out.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
I'm pretty sure we can ask Sam Mitchell himself. Really, yes,
because he's our.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
Special guest for today's talking game show.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Awesome.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Yes, Maxie, you can come, but you promise you won't
be barking the whole time.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
Okay, Okay, you can howl.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Let's go.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Welcome to our growing up talking game show. I'm Emily
and this is Luis, your host.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Hi everyone, I'm Louise and this is Maxy, my assistant
for today.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Please welcome our guest tonight geologist and volcanologist Sam Mitchell.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Hey, Emily, what's up.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Sam has traveled across the USA, New Zealand, Japan, and
all the way to the Pacific Ocean to study and
witness volcanoes of all types.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Let the game show begin. Thanks. Today we're gonna play riddles. Sam.
Your job is to guess the riddle before Maxie howells.
That means the time is run out. Sounds good, Okay, sure, awesome.
My riddles will be all about volcanoes and fun facts.
Here we go. Number one, I'm as large as the
(08:12):
world's largest ocean, and my name's a cool country song.
What am i?
Speaker 5 (08:19):
Ooh?
Speaker 1 (08:19):
This is really really tricky. Oh, the world's largest ocean.
So that's the Pacific Ocean. A cool song. I think
that's the Ring of Fire.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Yes, it's the Pacific Ring of Fire. And what exactly
is it? Emily.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
It's the longest chain of volcanoes across the Pacific Ocean.
Because the volcanoes frequently erupt and fiery explosions, the region
is known as the Ring of Fire.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
And what about the song?
Speaker 4 (08:48):
This song?
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Ring of Fire is a popular country song by Johnny Cash.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Thanks, Emily, that's so cool. Okay, Riddle number two. I'm
well known by Taurus today, even though it's been a while.
I'm so sorry about Pompeii. Who am I.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Sorry about Pompeii. That sounds to me like Mount Vesuvius
in Naples, Italy.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Correct. Mount Vesuvius is one of the most famous volcanoes
in the world.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
Yes, it had a.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Very powerful eruption a long time ago, and it buried
an ancient Roman city called Pompei.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Yes, interesting thing about that site. There's also another small
town that doesn't get visited as much, called Herculaneum, and
that was buried by mud. And that's actually it's smaller,
but it's better preserved than Pompeii because of how it
was buried.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
Cool.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
I didn't know that. I'll make a note about it
when I go to Italy sometime.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Bonus fact.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Okay, speaking of bonus facts, I have a bonus riddle
to share.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
Ooh, I didn't see that one coming.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Yes, and this one's my favorite. Here it goes. You
can find me in your house glowing a lot at night.
I promise I'm harmless at your desk, even if my
name says something else. What am I.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Something you can have in your house. This is I'm
thinking deep about this one, and maybe I don't need
to think so difficult.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
The answer is lava lamp.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Okay, very good.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
Yeah, lava lamps are cool lamps that heat up and
make gooey bubbles.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
But they only have wax, not real lava.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Yes, yeah, thankfully no real lava inside of those. They
demonstrate how magma can move up within the ground and
also move down at the same time, so the hots
of bits rise and the cool of bits fall down,
and you can see that inside lava lamps.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
I didn't know they were like actual magma.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
There we go, Sam, this was fun.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Thanks for playing, and thanks MAXI for insisting. Now let's
talk to Sam about the cool adventures volcanologists get to have.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Emily, can I, please, please please have the first question
after playing the game with Sam, I really want to
ask him one thing.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
Sure, Luise, fire away.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
Sam. Have you seen a volcano with lava in person?
Speaker 4 (11:16):
Ooh, that's called a volcanic eruption.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Yes, I have seen a couple of volcanic eruptions in person.
One of them is Estromboli, which is in Italy. Back then,
that was a volcano that used to erupt very very frequently.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
And if you saw it at nighttime, you just see
these red explosions every ten to fifteen minutes. And then
I've also seen lava flowes in Hawaii as well during
an eruption.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
It must be so beautiful to see in person. And
how old were you when you first got into volcano, Sam?
Speaker 1 (11:51):
I was around eleven years old when I started getting
interested in these things. With my mom, we'd pick up books,
bring them back home, and we sit there and go
through these books together. Some of them were more like textbooks,
so they were more like scientific Some of them were
a bit more adventurous, with lots of pictures and descriptions
about places around the world. So I just I started reading.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
I want one of those books. What cool volcano can
I read about? Sam? What's your favorite one?
Speaker 1 (12:20):
So I think I would have lots of favorite volcanoes,
but I'd say the favorite one that's the most interesting
to me is one in Tanzania called Oldoinno Lengai.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
Hold on, Emily, did you get that name again?
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Yes, it's Oldoino Lengai. It means mountain of God for
the Massai tribes.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Volcanoes have epic names everywhere. Why is this one so special?
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Because it erupts a very special type of lava, and
this lava when it erupts out, it's colder than a
lot of lava's around the world, so it doesn't shine
red orange. It's actually black, and it's as runny as water,
so it's really really interesting. And then when it down
it turns into a white rock.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
It's a cookies and cream volcano.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Ooh, sounds delicious. What other types of volcanoes do you study?
Speaker 1 (13:09):
The volcanoes I study. You're actually in the ocean and
on the sea floor. So what we do in my
kind of research expeditions is we go out on large
ships out to sea and we go to an area
where maybe there's a volcano on the sea floor, and
we will send scientific equipment down to the sea floor
to go and collect samples.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
I never thought that volcanoes could get you to the
deepest depths of the ocean. It sounds like you can
see Earth like no one has seen it before.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Yes, the special moment for me was we were going
down in this submersible all the way down to the
sea floor. It took us about twenty minutes to get there.
And we went six hundred meters deep, so over two
thousand feet and when we arrived you just see the
sea floor through them through the window in the submersible,
(13:59):
and you're the very first person who has maybe ever
seen that part of the sea floor. So that was
incredibly special.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
Wow. Sam, you like the first man on the Moon,
but underwater. Ooh, nice one, Louise, Sam, I've been wanting
to ask this for so long. Here, I have this rock.
It's really nothing special. My mom gave it to me,
she brought it from a trip. How can I know
if it's a volcanic rock.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Oh, there's lots of little things. Sometimes you can't always tell.
Sometimes rocks can be very good at keeping their secrets.
And if you can see these little green round crystals
in there, that might mean it's a special type of
volcanic rock or basalts.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
I think I see no crystals here.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Another thing you can look for is lots of holes
in your rock. So magma when it's in the ground
and is full of bubbles of gas. So if there's
lots of little holes, those are where the bubbles of
gas used to be trapped. And when the rock cools down,
there's bubbles of gas get trapped and they remain as
little holes in your rock.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
Yeah, this one's like cheese, but with even more holes.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
Then I think it's safe to.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
Say that this rock is volcanic rock.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Maxie, thank you so much for helping us out. Sam.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
Louise, what do you think about volcanoes?
Speaker 3 (15:21):
I think they're super important for our planet. They're also
beautiful but also dangerous and super duper powerful. And that
you can study volcanoes from the depth of the oceans.
I'd love to know so much more about them.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
Should we get that lava cake now?
Speaker 3 (15:36):
Yes, just with no ashes and gases. Please.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Thanks for tagging along on this episode of Growing Up
about the exciting adventures of volcanologists, and remember a little listener,
dream big, and always stay curious.
Speaker 4 (15:52):
Louise, are you ready for more adventures?
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Wait? There's more?
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Yep, there's loads more to explore on the world's number
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