Blippi Goes Inside a Volcano! Educational Videos for Kids

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Aloha it's me blippi and look at where

I'm at today Hawaii Volcanoes National

Park on the big island of Hawaii and

this place is awesome because of

volcanoes today you and I are gonna

learn about volcanoes yeah maybe we'll

find out what it looks like after it

erupts or maybe some Lava Tubes oh and

maybe some steam all right are you ready

to learn and have some fun

let's go

wow this place is so cool and I even

have a map but it's kind of confusing on

where I'm at I'm trying to find all

those cool things like the lava tubes

and the volcano Aloha blippi oh are you

lost do you need help finding anything

hey whoa are you a park ranger I am a

park ranger here my name is Ranger Aaron

wow and yeah to answer your question I

am lost I was actually trying to find

the lava tombs well you're in luck we

have nahuku lava tube right down this

Trail do you want to go see it yeah will

you show me yeah let's go together all

right whoa great

foreign ER Aaron this place is beautiful

I know I love this hike over here I

would call this a rainforest we do have

areas of rainforest here at Kilauea

volcano really how did the eruption not

get rid of all these plants well the

thing is during many volcanic eruptions

here the lava doesn't cover the whole

Forest it's sometimes it'll flow around

areas and leave a little pocket of

forests we call these kipukas keep

that's right these are really important

actually because kipukas serve as seed

banks seed banks what are those it means

they're areas where all of the seeds

from our native plants can be saved and

then after an eruption the wind might

blow them Birds might pick them up and

drop them on the new lava and new plants

can start to grow these plants make it

possible for the rest of the forest to

come back to that area and eventually

you may not even know there was ever a

lava flow there wow that is really cool

but since there's a lot of poisonous gas

is in the air when volcanoes erupt how

do these plants survive well a lot of

our plants here on this island they had

to adopt to survive a volcano such as

our ohia lehua tree look at these giant

trees above us wow they are big these

trees are very important in Hawaiian

culture and they also have some

superpowers to help them survive a

volcanic eruption superpowers I love I

love superpowers what do you mean well

the Ohio tree can actually hold its

breath during a volcanic eruption for up

to two weeks oh that's a long time this

is really cool can we keep exploring

yeah let's go see the lava tube oh cool

let's go

wow what's this this is the nakuku lava

tube lava tube what does that mean well

that means this is a tunnel where lava

used to be flowing during an eruption

but sometimes at the end of the eruption

the lava will flow out and leave this

empty tunnel behind and this one we can

actually walk through oh cool that

sounds really exciting can we walk

through it right now yeah let's go all

right you lead the way all right oh

pretty dark in here yeah don't worry

there are some lights all right

whoa cool so we have to imagine this is

where the lava used to be flowing

through many many years ago oh wow this

is really cool oh and it's getting

pretty dark in here I know good thing

we've got a few lights to help us see

the way oh yeah smart whoa cool do you

mind if I touch the wall oh please don't

this is actually a very unique ecosystem

in our Park there's some insects that

live here that don't live anywhere else

and if we touch the walls we could

disturb this ecosystem okay if you're

ever in a lava tube don't touch the

walls oh and that's really cool how

there's special insects that just live

in here but hey what's that sound

yeah the dripping is it raining in here

actually volcanic rock is very porous

that means there's lots of little holes

and cracks in it so when it rains the

water can filter down through the Rock

and eventually it can drip right on top

of us oh cool well I guess we'll

continue but we'll try and not get wet

right we should have brought an umbrella

yeah

really cool I know this is one of my

favorite places in our national park

yeah and you're so smart knowing about

those insects and also how the water

drops through the rock well they're

important facts to know to understand

how special our volcano is yeah it is

very special and speaking of volcano

do you mind if we go check it out yeah

do you want to go see crater oh I would

love to that sounds like fun all right

let's go see our volcano all right

wow cool a volcano that's right this is

a very special place at the national

park so whenever I bring students up

here I remind them to keep quiet voices

oh so that we can be respectful so that

everybody can enjoy this part of the

national park wow and why is it so

sacred up here well this is known as a

vahipana in Hawaiian that means a sacred

place and Hawaiian culture many people

believe that this crater

is the home of Pele honuamea Pele is the

fire goddess and the goddess of

volcanoes and many people believe that

the Hawaiian Islands would not be here

without Pele so that's why this is such

a sacred and special area in the park

wow this is a special place and it's so

peaceful but wait a second what is a

volcano well a volcano is a geologic

feature where underneath the Earth's

crust magma Chambers can form magma is

molten rock so these pockets of molten

rock start building up pressure and

eventually they can build up enough

pressure that they actually break

through the Earth's crust and lava can

erupt out of the Earth's crust wow cool

so does this volcano

erupt bunch of lava

this volcano is erupting right now wait

right now why is it not just exploding

in air well the Hawaiian volcanoes don't

usually have explosive eruptions

the Hawaiian volcanoes have what we call

effusive eruptions so the lava can

bubble out and flow and they also

sometimes erupt out of Rich cells in the

side of the volcano oh that makes sense

so is that the lava down there well that

is the lava down there once lava cools

and turns into rock it turns black so we

are looking at the cooled Lava Lake

right now wow and when did this eruption

start this current eruption started in

September of 2021. oh and what did it

look like before that time well there

was actually a really big change in our

volcano before the last big eruption

before that really big eruption our

volcano the Caldera was more flat

crater was very small it would have just

been right over there but what happened

during that eruption we had that magma

chamber underneath the Earth and it

started to empty because it was erupting

out of the side of the volcano okay So

eventually all of the lav all of the

magma got out of that chamber and it was

just empty and when it was Hollow and

empty like that it couldn't hold the

weight of the volcano so it actually

collapsed and that's what we can see

here this crater got much much bigger

during that eruption wow that's really

cool so is this the only volcano that

you folks have here flippy guess how

many volcanoes you can see right now

um

one the answer is actually three we have

five volcanoes on our Island total and

we can see three of them right here do

you want to go see the others yeah let's

go all right let's go

oh so that's the other volcano we can

see right that is one of the other

volcanoes we can see from right here

that's called Mauna Kea and one

interesting fact is Mauna Kea is so tall

in the winter time it can actually get

snow wait snow in Hawaii that's right I

used to teach second grade and my second

graders could go to the top of Mauna Kea

sled down a hill with snow on it and

then go to the beach in the same day wow

that sounds like so much fun I would

love to live here I love sledding and

the beach oh wait so you said there's

another volcano all I see is Hills well

actually we are going to see Mauna Loa

volcano and this is a really great

example of why they're called shield

volcanoes you see this big hill behind

us yeah that is all Mount Aloha that is

all the volcano wow even though it

doesn't look like this it looks like

this a shield volcano it's still a

volcano that's right like a superhero

Shield laid on its side cool wow do you

have any other fun things to see today

do you want to see some steam vents with

coming out of the Earth yeah all right

let's go see those last all right

foreign

wow this place is awesome yeah park

ranger Aaron what is this this is a

steam vent oh a steam vent what's that

well do you remember when we walked

through the lava tube we felt all of

those drops of water falling on us yeah

well something similar happens here

remember our volcanic rock is so porous

that means there's lots of holes and

cracks in it right so when it rains the

rain water can seep down through the

Rocks okay do you remember what's

underneath the volcano uh the Mac must

chamber that's right all of that magma

that super hot molten rock is underneath

our volcano So eventually the water

seeps down so far it gets heated up by

the magma it evaporates and it turns

into steam wow the steam can escape from

these cracks in the earth just like this

wow this has been so much fun learning

about volcanoes with you today you're so

knowledgeable well thank you for coming

and learning about volcanoes it's so

important that we work together to

protect these special places awesome

thank you

well I've got to go meet some youth

Junior Rangers over at The Visitor

Center wow cool all right bye blippi all

right see you later enjoy your visit all

right have a good day

wow Mauna Loa looks so big and remember

how we learned that it looks like a

superhero Shield laying down flat yeah

not all volcanoes look like this wow we

learned so much today we even got to

walk through a lava tube and it was so

tubular

yeah and those steam vents so cool you

know it's pretty warm too that Steam

from all that heat wow and that crater

it was so big and vast wow I sure did

love learning about volcanoes with you

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