Did you know that over 8 million metric tons of plastic end up in the ocean each year? In our Importance of Oceans for Kids video, we discuss why it's so essential to take care of the water that covers our beautiful earth. In fact, seawater makes up two-thirds of our planet! Most of that water flows in the five interconnected oceans. And this water provides us with so many important benefits.

The ocean is vital to our planet because it produces over half of the world's oxygen supply. It also absorbs 50 times more carbon that the atmosphere. We can also turn to the ocean for food, transportation, and recreation. When it comes to food supply, we are talking about more than just fish. Did you know that ingredients in peanut butter and soymilk are also found in the ocean? In addition, the ocean helps regulate weather patterns, creates employment opportunities, and provides ingredients for medicines.

Ocean mining and plastic pollution are two major problems for our oceans. Ocean mining produces plumes of sediment that blanket sections of the ocean floor. It chokes filter-feeding species and the fish swimming amidst the debris and destroys habitats. Plastic is a major concern because it doesn't decompose. The constant movement in the water simply breaks it down into smaller pieces called microplastics. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a collection of debris between Hawai'i and California that is twice the size of Texas. This floating mass of plastic is estimated to be 80,000 tons.

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What you will learn in Importance of Earth's Oceans for Kids:
0:00 Introduction
0:40 Why are oceans important?
1:25 Air, employment, and medicine
2:34 Food, transportation, and recreation
3:33 Oceans in crisis and how to help
4:32 Problems with plastic in the ocean
5:37 Review of the facts

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Did you know that octopuses have the largest brains of all the known invertebrates in the world? Octopuses for Kids lays out quite a few quirky facts, like the fact that they have brains in their arms too! Each arm has a bunch of neurons that work together to help an octopus move in a coordinated way. All these brains make octopuses incredibly intelligent.

When octopuses need to protect themselves, they use an incredible strategy called autotomy. If an octopus is in danger, it will purposely "let go" of one of its arms. It can then escape its predators because its detached arm keeps moving as a distraction while the octopus makes a safe getaway. Even more amazing is that octopuses can grow a new arm later.

Here another cool fact. Octopuses have chromatophores in their skin. Chromatophores are specialized cells containing pigments that allow them to change color and create intricate patterns. These cells help them hide by matching the colors and patterns of their surroundings, like rocks or seaweed. That way, if an octopus is near a sandy area, it can turn brown to blend in, and if it's by a coral reef, it can turn the vibrant colors of the corals. Octopuses use this remarkable skill not just for camouflage but also to communicate with other octopuses and express their emotions.

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0:00 Introduction
0:21 What is an octopus?
1:57 What do octopuses eat?
3:32 Other interesting facts
4:48 The strategy of autotomy
5:14 Why are they important to the environment?
6:06 Review of the facts

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Did you know the most common type of natural disaster in the US is flooding? Nearly 90% of all disasters actually involve flooding in some way. In this video for kids, you'll discover that floods can result from tropical storms, hurricanes, extreme rains, or even thawing snow.

A flood is an overflow of water onto what is normally dry land. They can be a few inches high to dozens of feet high depending on the circumstance. They form in many different ways, such as melting ice, hurricanes, or the breaking of a dam or other barrier.

There are three types of floods—slow onset, rapid onset, and flash. Slow onset means that the flood happens gradually, over a long period of time, within days or even weeks. Rapid onset, on the other hand, means that the flood happens really quickly, usually within a day or two. Finally, flash floods are those that happen during a VERY short period of time, usually between a couple hours. These floods can be very dangerous and cause a lot of destruction.

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0:21 What is a flood?
0:42 How floods form
1:03 The Great Mississippi River Flood of 1927
2:02 Types of floods
3:28 Review of the facts

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What are the different types of clouds that we see in the sky? In this video for kids, you'll learn about 10 different types of clouds and what they mean. But first, what is a cloud? Clouds occur in the atmosphere. The atmosphere includes all of the gases that surround the planet, including the oxygen that we breathe! The atmosphere is also full of water. The water in the atmosphere is made of tiny drops that are too small for the human eye to see.

Clouds start forming when the liquid water droplets in our atmosphere transform into gaseous water vapor. When the water vapor rises it comes in contact with cooler, thinner air. As the warm air and water vapor cool, clouds are formed. All of that is a long way of saying that a cloud is a group of water vapor droplets or ice crystals hovering in the atmosphere.

The 10 types of clouds you'll learn about are cirrus, cirrocumulus, cirrostratus, altostratus, altocumulus, nimbostratus, stratus, stratocumulus, cumulus, and cumulonimbus clouds. They all mean something different. For instance, cumulonimbus clouds are those giant, dark clouds that bring lots of rain and can even cause thunderstorms and tornadoes. On the other hand, cirrus clouds are thin and wispy clouds that appear during good weather.

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0:23 What is a cloud?
1:25 Cirrus, cirrocumulus, cirrostratus, altostratus, and altocumulus clouds
2:19 Nimbostratus, stratus, stratocumulus, cumulus, and cumulonimbus clouds
3:40 Review of the facts

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