Name: WHY IS THERE A MOON?.... ともっと! (WHY IS THERE A MOON? .... and more!)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T10:30:16.000Z
Duration: 5 min 50 s
Description: VoiceTubeの動画で発音を聞きながら英語表現を覚えよう！学べる英語：

Hey, Vsauce. Michael here. And I'm Regent's Park

Awesome channel, check it out. This camera belongs to Tom and Hazel

is operating it right now. Yeah, that's her giving a thumbs up, which

I'm sure just look like a blur, but the point is we're gonna do information today.

Right now, Tom, I'm in London. Which is in England. And it's also in

the United Kingdom. Which is in Europe. Okay, and we've also

got another term - Great Britain. Well, let's unpack all these terms

Now, if we're going to talk about geography, I think we should go all the

when there was no geography. That's right. Way before YouTube existed,

our solar system was nothing but a mist of dust and gases,

what is known as a solar nebula. But then,

majestic happened. We don't know exactly what caused it,

but some scientists believe that the shockwave of a nearby supernova

hit our nebula, causing it to start spinning

and contracting. Now, as things collected together, their overall gravity got

stronger and they pulled more stuff in it. And boom,

we've got a Sun. A half billion years later,

and the disk of junk circling around the Sun starts coming together in its

into what we now call the planets. One of these planets I've actually

visited and it's called Earth. But before we get ahead of ourselves,

what the heck is the Moon doing there? I mean, here's the problem. When you look at

all the terrestrial planets, all the planets near us, near the Sun,

they all have very similar structure and they'll have the same big metal core

and they all have very similar densities. But the Moon

a similar structure, it doesn't have a huge dense metal core.

In fact when we visited them and brought back dust and rocks to analyze what the

we found that the Moon was made out of the same stuff that you find in

core. This discovery gave rise to a pretty awesome idea

that the moon is actually made out of what used to be

billion years ago there used to be another planet

called Theia. It was a little bit smaller than Mars but it had an unfortunate

orbit. It was fine for millions of years but eventually and

what did happen to it was that it collided with Earth.

Now, it's believed that the collision happened quite slowly

and the centers, the cores of both Theia and Earth

fused into one. And material from the mantle and crust of Earth

wasn't just scattered but it was forcefully ejected,

literally launched into outer space. It circled around

Earth and scientists believe that it took only about a week

for all that Earth material out in space to coalesce

into what we now call the Moon. Oh, and by the way, if

that's how the Moon formed, it was such a strong collision

the actual axis that the Earth spun on was tilted

Alright, so four billion years ago the continents as we know them

began to emerge. You know, these pieces of the Earth's crust that have cooled down

and are floating around on Earth's molten liquid insides.

Now, they move and they've been in constant motion since they began but

very, very slowly. Every 300 to 500 million years,

the continents all converge into what's called one

big supercontinent. All the land in the entire Earth

altogether and the rest of it covered in ocean. The most recent supercontinent is

Pangaea. But scientists believe that there may have been four, five, six or even more

before Pangaea. What's really mind-blowing

is the fact that eventually there's going to be another Pangaea, another supercontinent.

And based on calculations, the Earth at that time

will look like this. But like I said, these land masses are moving very very

and so for that reason it is worth learning their names

as they are now. Which brings us back to the question of

British Isles and what all these terms mean. Let's begin

zoomed out. The British Isles and Ireland are a collection of

6 thousand islands off the coast of Europe. The term

Great Britain refers to the largest of these islands.

Now, Great Britain contains three separate countries: England,

Wales and Scotland. If we add Northern Ireland into the mix,

we're now looking at what is known as the United Kingdom or the

UK. The Republic of Ireland is a separate country that is not part

of the United Kingdom. And, by the way, England is where London is

which is where Summer in the City was. Which brings us back to Regent's Park.

Ireland, overseas territories and even Canada,

explanation video, if you haven't seen it already. This guy's incredible.

You can also check out the channels belonging to the people who helped me with the intro

and outro for this video. We've got Tom and