Bill Nye Sampler II series

This video explains how pressure, air resistance, and the Earth's gravitational force make storms, bowling balls, and planet Earth all move in a circle. This video also gives the definition of centripetal force, the definition ofcentrifugal force, and an experiment to show the effect of spinning on a design. The inside cover and paper inset contain an experiment to demonstrate centripetal and centrifugal forces and an experiment to display the visual effects of spinning objects. This video is closed captioned.

In this video Bill Nye explains how marine mammals are like human be ings by the way they communicate with other mammals underwater and the fact thatthey breathe air. Bill Nye also shows how marine mammals have found ways to livein oceans all around the world and explains that blubber is a layer of fat whichis like rubber under the skin. This program contains an experiment to demonstrate the insulating properties of fat.

In this video Bill Nye uses comedy to present information on mammals.Bill discusses the common characteristics of mammals including: mammals have hair or fur, mammals are warm-blooded (their body maintains its temperature), mammals nurse their young, mammals breathe oxygen, and mammals get their body heat from the energy in the food they eat. This video contains an experiment to demonstrate the sense of smell. The inside cover and paper inset contain an experiment to determine if a mammal's ears would aid in cooling the skin and an experiment to demonstrate how evaporation is cooling.

In this video Bill Nye explains how fish breathe, grow, and survive in the water. This video also explains that fish have lived on Earth for 400 million years, that the backbone in a fish is similar to a human skeleton, that fishuse gills to breathe oxygen, and that oxygen comes from water, plants, and waves. This video also contains a music video parody of Sam & Dave's "Soul Man" called "Sole Man" performed by two characters named Swam & Dive.