Episode 29 - Andy Talks Water

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Episode Highlights:

• [​1:35] Welcome Andy - Nine-year-old Andy joins us today as part of "Take Your Child to Work Day."
  
  
• [2:25] The Birthday Game - Andy gets his chance to show Brent and Elizabeth how this game is really played.​
  
  
  • Patrick Stump
    
    
  • Kevin James
    
    
  • First Lady Melania Trump
    
    
• [4:35] The Water Cycle - Andy shares what he's learned about water in school. Play along:
  
  
  • Where does the water in your pipes come from?
    
    
  • How much water does it take to stay alive?
    
    
  • Andy's Riddle: What's lighter than a feather but even the strongest man can't hold it for two minutes?
    
    
• [8:00] Quick current event updates - Next week, we'll cover some recent activities (the end of the California drought and the confirmation of the Secretary of Agriculture).
  
  
• [9:45] Challenges with the water cycle - We don't always know where the water will fall. Have too much in some areas and too little in others.
  
  
  • Where does your water come from (e.g. rivers, groundwater)?
    
    
• [11:54] Minecraft and water - Andy shares how the game Minecraft treats water.
  
  
  • You can use a water bucket to make crops grow faster.
    
    
  • You can get water from oceans and deep in the ground.
• [16:00] The three states of water - solid, liquid, gas.
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• [17:45] Water is H2O - Water is made up of two hydrogen (H) atoms and one oxygen (O) atom.
  
  
• [20:20] Plants - Plants take in carbon dioxide and give us Oxygen. Andy shares about what inputs plants need, including water.
  
  
  • Plants don't always get enough water from nature, so irrigation can be used to supplement rainfall.
• [26:40] Brent's Tip of the Week - "When the going gets tough, the tough get going."

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