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Whopping whale and deep-diving seals

Whopping whale and deep-diving seals

On today's show, we'll learn about the one of the biggest animals to have ever existed. Then we'll meet an Indigenous teenager helping her community access swimming lessons. Staying in the water, we'll meet some deep-sea diving seals making scientific discoveries, before coming up for air to hear about Australia's first ever blind women's cricket team. Quiz Questions In which country did they find the fossils of Perucetus Colossus? What does the charity name 'bambigi' mean in Wiradjuri language? Is the ocean floor in Antarctica deeper or shallower than we thought? Did the Australian Blind Women's Cricket team come first, second or third at the competition? What's the word for something, like this plastic, that can break down in the environment? Bonus Tricky Question What's the special thing in flies that's being turned into plastic? Answers Peru "to swim" Deeper Second Biodegradable Bonus Tricky Answer Chitin

ABC KIDS News Time · Australian Broadcasting Corporation

August 31, 202312m 28s

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Show Notes

On today's show, we'll learn about the one of the biggest animals to have ever existed. Then we'll meet an Indigenous teenager helping her community access swimming lessons. Staying in the water, we'll meet some deep-sea diving seals making scientific discoveries, before coming up for air to hear about Australia's first ever blind women's cricket team.

Quiz Questions

  1. 1.In which country did they find the fossils of Perucetus Colossus?
  2. 2.What does the charity name 'bambigi' mean in Wiradjuri language?
  3. 3.Is the ocean floor in Antarctica deeper or shallower than we thought?
  4. 4.Did the Australian Blind Women's Cricket team come first, second or third at the competition?
  5. 5.What's the word for something, like this plastic, that can break down in the environment?

Bonus Tricky Question

What's the special thing in flies that's being turned into plastic?

Answers

  1. 1.Peru
  2. 2."to swim"
  3. 3.Deeper
  4. 4.Second
  5. 5.Biodegradable

Bonus Tricky Answer

Chitin 

Topics

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