Solar System
"Confessions of a Planet"
I’m planet Earth, space is the place, I’m the globe,
Bet you didn’t know the third rock and roll got soul,
And gravitational pull. I orbit around the sun,
And every 12 months make a revolution.
Or better yet 365 (and a quarter!)
Days as I rotate, change into night,
Why? You should ask Isaac Newton.
The law of inertia is governing the movement.
Gravity’s the force that will keep us on course,
We’re heading straight toward the sun, but at the same time forward,
Flying in space — an elliptical line that’s not straight.
The path that I’m destined to have until it breaks.
So now you heard of what inertia is,
I’ve been orbiting way more than any person lives.
And until another force acts on me,
Run around the sun with the moon on my back, homie.
Confessions of a planet;
These are confessions of a planet.
With a 25,000 mile circumference at my equator. I’m living large!
And as the day gets old, the tilt of my axis controls the seasons you know.
I lean forward and it’s warm,
Or then I lean back and it’s chillier than normal.
And if my rotation is taking in sunlight, surprise!
The heat of the summertime arrives.
But on the other side of the equator, or my center,
People there enter into winter.
Whether you’re in the east by the way that I spin,
The sun appears to rise; in the west it descends,
Then, come follow me to the poles,
The bottom and the top of the globe and it always stays cold.
Up to the north and down to the south,
Longitude and latitude will keep you on route.
But it’s all relative in space,
There is no direction. There is no escape.
Confessions of a planet;
These are confessions of a planet.
Even still — the sun is 300 thousand times more massive, yo!
Not to hurt the sun’s ego,
There’s billions of stars; it’s just the closest one we know.
Regal, at the center of the solar system,
The planets are my fam; I can list them, listen:
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars,
Known for being rocky and small, not large.
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
Are larger and gaseous, farther and past is Pluto,
A dwarf planet made of ice.
But even smaller is what you people call a satellite,
Like, many planets have them,
Mine is the moon; its gravity controls tides, too.
Move! Before the asteroid hits. Meteor, comet!
But we were a bunch of AUs from it. What?
It’s 93,000,000 miles to the sun,
Measured in astronomical units is ONE!
Confessions of a planet;
These are confessions of a planet.
Flocab Spits Facts:
Your Age in Miles
Science Speaks
Weather
"Layers of Life"
Water comes rushing through pipes and out the tap,
Or you can buy a bottle for a dollar and a half.
So easy to get here in the U.S.A.,
We don’t blink if it doesn’t rain for days.
But there’s places worldwide,
Where water would save lives,
And drought means people die.
Covers most of the globe, like it’s all I see,
Go for four days without it, and it’s R.I.P.
A little heat from the sun is all it takes
To evaporate oceans, puddles, ponds and lakes.
Water evaporates, turns to vapor,
It rises through the air, like "see y’all later."
In the upper atmosphere, the air is cold,
So the gas turns back into liquid fast.
That’s condensation, and it causes clouds,
"I don’t get it, why don’t clouds fall down?"
’Cause clouds are made of tiny water drops,
As warm air rises, it keeps the clouds aloft.
And stops the drops from falling down,
But if they "freeze!" they "get on the ground!"
’Cause when clouds get thicker and bigger,
That triggers large drops to fall like "timber!"
That’s precipitation, and it might be rain,
It might be hail or snow if it’s very cold.
Three layers of life, I’ll make it clear:
The one we live on? That’s the lithosphere.
The one with the water is the hydrosphere.
The gas and air is the atmosphere.
"I have a question: why do we have air we can breathe here?
Why doesn’t air just float away into space?"
Well, air is something that you can’t see,
But like you or me, it’s held down by gravity.
Held down like wrestlers when they’re not on top,
I’ll change the air pressure, make your ears go pop.
Air’s thicker near the bottom, and it’s thin up top,
Like a dude with fat legs and a big bald spot.
We measure this barometric pressure with a barometer,
Like we measure heat with a thermometer.
Now, the bottom layer is the troposphere,
It contains 90% of the air.
The stratosphere above that contains the ozone layer,
Protects us from those harmful rays.
Mesosphere is so cold, the air is so thin,
Thermosphere’s above that, and that’s the end.
Um, surprise, sunrise, here comes the sun,
Bringing heat with that radiation.
It brings heat and energy to defeat its enemies,
Makes your car hot, and heats the air.
That makes the air move oh-so-much better.
This is a convection current; it creates weather,
Cold front coming! Get your Dairy Queen Blizzard.
Which — hurricane, thunderstorm, or cyclone — is it?
Three layers of life, I’ll make it clear:
The one we live on? That’s the lithosphere.
The one with the water is the hydrosphere.
The gas and air is the atmosphere.
Flocab Spits Facts:
Beyond the Lyrics
Worst American Weather
Wind
Science Speaks
Geology
"Roll n' Rock"
The Earth’s made of rocks, "Yeah, I know."
Rocks in Earth’s center are hot, not cold.
You can’t hold them; they’re hot, they’re molten,
They’re almost liquid in parts, so they’re flowing.
’Cause it’s the LAMOC and IC,
It’s the LAMOC and IC:
Lithosphere, asthenosphere,
Mesosphere, outer core, and inner core.
Inner core is hot, solid, and stressed,
Under crazy pressure from the other layers on its head.
Outer core is molten, hot and thick,
Mesosphere is mostly solid; it’s on top of it.
Asthenosphere is thin, sits below the crust,
It’s not quite liquid; it’s kind of like mud.
So big chunks of the lithosphere
Move a little bit from year to year.
Those chunks are tectonic plates,
They move and cause earthquakes when they shake.
If they don’t like me in the States, I’ll move to Mexico,
Stack pesos; blow up big like volcanoes.
Let the beat roll n' rock, 'cause my flow is hot,
Whether the weather's cold or hot, we know the spot.
Call the cops, never will we hold up, stop,
We bu-bu-bubble up like soda pop.
Earth’s made of rock; rocks are composed of minerals,
Minerals are solid, non-living materials.
Not made by man, so here’s a test:
Which is a mineral: Cheese? No! A diamond? Yes!
Every mineral is made of different elements,
So they have different properties. You copy? (10-4.)
Now, a streaker at a football game
Is someone who runs around naked trying to get attention.
A streak test is used by scientists
To see the color of a mineral by grinding it.
To see how shiny it is, you better test the luster,
That’ll give you a clue like Colonel Mustard.
You can see how it cracks as well,
Or measure hardness on Mohs hardness scale.
So is it soft like talc or a baby’s booty,
Or hard like diamonds and gangster movies?
Now Rocky was a boxer, who hailed from Philadelph,
Rocks are solid mixtures of a few minerals.
Igneous rocks are formed by volcanoes, I like it,
So igneous rocks were ignited.
Sedimentary rocks are formed by sand,
That air or water push into layers of land.
Metamorphic rocks are squeezed by pressure and heat,
Because of this they change like a metamorphosis.
Let the beat roll n' rock, 'cause my flow is hot,
Whether the weather's cold or hot, we know the spot.
Call the cops, never will we hold up, stop,
We bu-bu-bubble up like soda pop.
Flocab Spits Facts:
Behind the Lyrics
Deadly Earth
Worlds Below
Pangaea
Scientific Method
"Scientific Method of Madness"
"This is Galileo Galilei, a.k.a. Double-G. Mama mia!"
Live from the Tower of Pisa,
Grab a piece of pizza, the 17th century feature
Is Galileo Galilei, a scientist
Who questioned everything the church had to say.
Like, "Well, how’s about gravity,
Do you think a heavy object will fall rapidly?"
Naturally, Galileo wanted proof,
He used experiments to obtain the truth.
"So if I drop these cannonballs at the same time,
They’ll fall at the same time. Arrivederci!"
And now he’s holding two cannonballs,
Dropped from the top, and both of them should plan to fall
At the same moment, though one was heavier.
BOOM! Proof gravity’s constant;
Get ready for a revolution, but the Church wouldn’t listen,
And later he was locked up by the Inquisition.
That’s what could happen when you make a commitment,
The scientific method to the madness, what is it?
The scientific method
Starts out when you ask a question.
The hypothesis is the second step,
Then you test it.
That’s what an experiment is, of course.
Analyzing the results is the fourth.
Have we reached a conclusion?
Do we need more support?
That’s the fifth step, yep,
We’ve been waiting.
The sixth step: take our results,
Communicate them.
But shall we dig further?
Ask good questions to be a good observer.
In this case, it was weight: does it influence
The rate that an object falls? Well, we can prove it ("How?"),
By forming a hypothesis,
An educated guess, or what our thought process is.
If gravity is constant,
Then everything will fall at the same rate — Accomplished.
A controlled experiment was conducted,
With only one factor that we adjusted — Bust it.
It was the weight of the cannonball,
That was the variable that we can control.
Another type is a double-blind test,
Even the researchers don’t know which is which.
A control group of people is given a placebo,
And that’s a fake pill they take to see what we know.
Flocab Spits Facts:
Cola Experiment
A Hammer and a Feather
Science Speaks
Ecosystems
"Ecosystems"
Look, I’m a skunk, ya dig?
My ecosystem is where I live.
Plus animals in it, I eat worms, eat leaves,
But a great horned owl might come and eat me.
It’s all connected in a food web,
That’s a lot of food chains, yep, you bet.
I try not to gamble like a pair of dice,
And always avoid those parasites,
Little organisms who get a free meal, dude,
I don’t want to be their host; this ain’t "Family Feud."
But the bacteria in my stomach, I want it,
Help each other, we’re symbiotic.
I’m not a scavenger; I don’t prey on the dead,
But if you sneak up on me, I’ll spray at your head.
I’m not a decomposer, I don’t break down,
But I break-dance to country music. What?
Everything is connected, understand that.
We’re all connected in one big web.
Energy is never created or destroyed;
It just moves from one being to another.
And when we die, the energy in our bodies is returned to the Earth.
It’s all the same; ashes to ashes, dust to dust….
The food chain’s the way that energy moves,
How it gets from the sun into you.
First there’s the producers; "Yeah, they make the beats,"
Naw, they make the carbohydrates that you eat.
They’re colored green; they work like a machine,
Photosynthesis converts the energy
From solar to chemical, that’s right.
So now it’s in a form that’s, like, totally edible.
The herbivores eat plants and grasses,
Put it this way: they like salads.
The predators and carnivores eat some meat,
Find them on the Serengeti or at KFC.
So lions, tigers, and spiders are all predators,
And so was the Queen of France.
’Cause, yeah, she’d eat steak, I know what she ate,
She said, "The peasants are Herbivores; let them eat cake!"
But when the lion’s dead, or the Queen loses her head,
The decomposers say, "Let’s get fed."
They’re bacteria and fungi,
But no, they’re not really that fun, guy.
It’s not like they’re evil,
But they say, "I feed off dead people."
They leave behind basic elements that get washed away by the rain:
That’s the food chain.
Flocab Spits Facts:
Natural Record-Holders
Environmental Change
"Mother Earth"
Polar ice cap melting in the Arctic,
Water level rising to cover your apartment.
It’s getting hot y’all, it ain’t an accident,
The Gulf of Mexico’s a hurricane mag-a-net.
I’ve seen satellite flicks of the rainforests,
They’re being burned to the ground and we’re paying for it.
And what’s happening is more than a warning,
G-L-O-B-A-L warming.
And you can argue where the fault lies,
Look up in the air, and it’s carbon dioxide.
It’s a greenhouse gas that traps heat,
Emitted from the cars we drive, and at least,
We can try to clean up. Because of our pollution,
The environment is in a state of confusion.
Step outside and say it’s an illusion,
The Earth’s been begging for help. Where have you been?
Oh, you know, that we’ve been living wrong, we’ve got to try.
The Earth’s our home that we’ve been given and it’s gonna die.
People hating, people fighting, and they go to war,
When will they learn it’s Mother Earth we should be fighting for?
And who’da thought there was harm in farming?
The human impact on Earth is alarming.
’Cause when we raise animals and grow crops,
We reduce the diversity; it don’t stop.
We use pesticides and fertilizers,
Getting in our water supply to hurt a lot of us.
The same people that’s working in construction,
Building our homes that need energy to function.
And that same house you wake up in,
Heading to school in a car, train, or bus then.
On the way you notice a factory,
The Earth cries exactly where the smokestack will be.
And the tears fall back as acid rain,
’Cause the pH level is getting drastic,
Within the atlas, in the troposphere,
That part supports all life; we’ve got a lot to fear.
Oh, you know, that we’ve been living wrong, we’ve got to try.
The Earth’s our home that we’ve been given and it’s gonna die.
People hating, people fighting, and they go to war,
When will they learn it’s Mother Earth we should be fighting for?
Smokestacks and fancy cars make black skies and gray water.
And can you tell me what happened to the ozone?
Pollutants in the air, we’re destroying our own home ("Oh no!").
And in comes radiation, truly the UV rays made me impatient.
There’s no waiting, we’ve got to get it cleaned up,
It’s our job, Like an oxpecker on a zebra. "What?!"
It’s a symbiotic relationship,
All living things need Earth to keep their place in it.
But when we spoil the soil,
Digging for minerals and drilling for oil,
We interfere with the bacteria,
And their role to decompose material.
We disrupt the water and Energy cycle,
The Earth’s resources are finite; it might go
Past the point of correction, so learn your lesson,
Or humans will be next in ecological succession.
Oh, you know, that we’ve been living wrong, we’ve got to try.
The Earth’s our home that we’ve been given and it’s gonna die.
People hating, people fighting, and they go to war,
When will they learn it’s Mother Earth we should be fighting for?
States of Matter
"States of Matter"
These are the states of matter:
Solid, liquid, gas, plasma,
These are the states of matter.
Solid, liquid, gas, plasma,
These are the states of matter.
Matter has color, odor, conductivity,
Density, in a phase with solubility,
A boiling point where the molecules scatter,
Anything that has mass and volume is matter.
My molecules are losing energy and closing in together…
I’m a solid, these days I can’t call it,
I could be a wall or a wallet.
So watch if my molecules are close, so they only vibrate;
That’s how I retain my shape,
You all knew that it’s definite like my volume, yep,
Which is length times width times depth.
Step — before my gravitational force attracts in an instant,
Depending on the mass and the distance.
Weight is the measurement you would take,
Scientifically, it’ll be newtons, but me, I weigh a few tons.
Move, run! I’m cubic and too slick,
Three dimensions like new flicks, but you pick.
Like I could be amorphous,
Peep the molecules, you don’t know what the order is,
And sort of switch — now I’m a crystalline,
Atoms in a pattern that are crystal-clean. Me, I’m a…
These are the states of matter:
Solid, liquid, gas, plasma,
These are the states of matter.
Solid, liquid, gas, plasma,
These are the states of matter.
Matter has color, odor, conductivity,
Density, in a phase with solubility,
A boiling point where the molecules scatter,
Anything that has mass and volume is matter.
Gaining energy, molecules spreading apart, oh…
Flow with the motion, I’m known as the liquid,
My volume is constant, my shape, inconsistent.
At times situations get hot, I get lifted,
And vaporization, I’m shifted to gas.
But this amount isn’t different, I last,
And it’s called conservation of mass.
It should make sense; I cool and condense,
I freeze in the cold, I pool and I tense.
Return to a solid, the state that I stick with,
Until you can heat me and melt me to liquid.
That’s not the half — I’m incredibly gifted,
’Cause I can float your boat — or I can sink it (buoyancy!),
And if it’s not too dense then I can lift it,
And I’m dissolving any solute in an instant.
From the sugar in your lemonade, carbon in your water,
I make solutions when I mix with a…
These are the states of matter:
Solid, liquid, gas, plasma,
These are the states of matter.
Solid, liquid, gas, plasma,
These are the states of matter.
Matter has color, odor, conductivity,
Density, in a phase with solubility,
A boiling point where the molecules scatter,
Anything that has mass and volume is matter.
Oh, my molecules have gained much energy. They are beginning to spread rapidly.
Slid in with no shape, it’s the gas,
And I have to escape, indeed,
My molecules move with speed,
Due to an increase in my energy.
I once was a solid, but through sublimation
I became a gas with my particles racing.
I knew some liquids that hit evaporation,
Give them an electrical charge and it will make them…
Oh, it’s the plasma state — state of matter,
Can’t check my volume, no shape can grasp the
Way, way I move; I get — I get down.
I’m the state you get when particles are breaking down.
I am the center of the sun (hot!), flicker of a flame (what!).
I’m bolts of lightning, fluorescent light-ning!
And what’s the tight thing, I’m so exciting,
I only come around when the conditions are right. Sing!
These are the states of matter:
Solid, liquid, gas, plasma,
These are the states of matter.
Solid, liquid, gas, plasma,
These are the states of matter.
Matter has color, odor, conductivity,
Density, in a phase with solubility,
A boiling point where the molecules scatter,
Anything that has mass and volume is matter.
Density equals mass over volume…
Flocab Spits Facts:
Like liquids, rappers flow
Ice Cream Experiment
Atoms and Elements
"We Get Atomic"
Let me tell you something you might not be able to fathom,
I’m an atom, the smallest unit of matter.
Find me in your brain the sun, or tuna fish,
The core of me, that’s my nucleus.
Protons and neutrons, they have mass,
My electrons are negative, like they’re mad.
I stay positive like protons on the mic,
Me and my buddy atoms, we group tight.
We call our clique the molecules,
And if you want to bond, you can join up too.
Let’s get back to elements:
Every atom is the same in an element, a pure substance.
Elements are metals or not; metals can be melted when hot,
They’re malleable; you can shape ’em a lot.
Iron, gold, copper, zinc, mercury, and lead,
When you don’t live, it doesn’t hurt to be dead.
Get-get up, we get-get atomic.
Get-get down, we get-get atomic.
Get-get up, we get-get atomic.
Get-get down, we get elemental.
So, Dmitri Mendeleev lined us elements up,
He was able to put us in the periodic table.
We go in order of the number of protons we have,
So the small ones go first, the fatties go last.
"What’s atomic mass?"
That’s the number of protons and neutrons an atom has.
On the table that’s periodic (periodic),
Each horizontal row is a period. You got it?
And each up-and-down column is a group,
So, the groups act the same; they think it’s cool.
"Like from peer pressure?" Um, yeah, I guess,
Group one is reactive metals; they never rest.
Group 18 is those noble gases,
At room temperature, they stay gaseous.
At the end of the table are those elements,
That scientists cook up for less than an instant.
Get-get up, we get-get atomic.
Get-get down, we get-get atomic.
Get-get up, we get-get atomic.
Get-get down, we get elemental.
Flocab Spits Facts:
Beyond the Lyrics
Isotopes
Periodic Table Rap
Periodic Table Names
Energy
"Energy"
We don’t get it when we rest; we get it from food,
If you’re a cow and we eat you, we get it from you.
Cannibals get it from eating dudes,
Cows get it from eating the grass that they chew.
Grass and plants get it from sun’s rays,
Using photosynthesis, work even on Sundays.
Light hits carbon dioxide in the plant,
Makes carbohydrates and some oxygen.
You can’t destroy it, but you can move it,
You can’t create it, but you can use it.
You want your car to move? Burn some fossil fuels,
But just know that oil’s something we cannot renew.
But solar panels, windmills, hydroelectric dams,
All give us energy again and again.
We can even get energy stored in the Earth,
It’s geothermal heat from the core of the Earth.
It’s that uh-tigga-uh, it’s the energy.
Ooh, it’s inside me.
Can you feel it? You feel it? It’s the energy.
It’s letting us move whenever we step in the room.
Mechanical energy’s all about that movement,
So it’s what happens when you’re moving.
Energy that’s potential is stored, ready to get you,
Like a bow and arrow pulled back, or skiers when the snow’s packed.
They’re at the top of the mountain,
"Look at ’em up there, I think I see some potential in ’em."
Kinetic energy’s when they go, when the ball gets thrown,
Or you run real quick to get home.
Chemical energy’s from those chemical bonds,
In the food we consume, nd in the wood that we burn.
There’s chemical energy in the calories in tea,
From tea leaves soaking up solar energy.
But hot tea has more energy than cold tea,
Yep, you guessed it: heat’s a form of energy.
They call it thermal, like your thermal coat in the winter,
Which you need to keep your heat energy near ya.
Sound energy is what makes the speakers shake,
And vibrate, and Stevie Wonder thinks it’s great.
You want light energy? Just set your microwave clock,
It’s the light waves that make your popcorn go POP!
Electrons flow, that’s electrical, they don’t rest,
Flow "Through the Wire" like Kanye West.
Nuclear energy’s fission or fusion,
Fission’s splitting atoms apart, fusion is fusin’ ’em .
It’s that uh-tigga-uh, it’s the energy.
Ooh, it’s inside me.
Can you feel it? You feel it? It’s the energy.
It’s letting us move whenever we step in the room.
Flocab Spits Facts:
Your Kinetic Energy
Energy and Mass
Energy Story
Motion
"Putting in the Work"
I work for mine, and then I sit back,
Relax, with my man Spectac.
But when I lift my glass to sip my virgin daiquiri,
I do work automatically.
Because work just means that something moved,
It takes energy to make it do what it do.
Now, motion depends on relative position,
Without that position, there’s something you’d be missing.
Like, I was on a train late last week,
This guy came over to me, said, "Did you see
This one tree I saw going superfast?"
I said, "Naw, the tree was still, you were moving past.
You had the velocity,
The speed and direction; it was not the tree."
But it’s all relative, the train leaves the station,
It speeds up, that’s acceleration.
And we’d keep going superfast,
But there’s friction and it’s holding us back.
There’s less friction for things that roll,
So you don’t bowl with a waffle; you bowl with a ball.
And there’s less friction for things that float,
That’s why you never need to put wheels on your boat.
I made a machine to screw with a bully,
I used a lever, wedge, a screw, and a pulley.
We’re on a world tour.
Flocab and Spectac,
Using motion every day to get us
There and back.
East coast, west coast,
North, south, worldwide,
Putting in the work and
We’re keeping it live.
Eh, yo, it’s Flocab and Spectac, we’re live on tour,
Let’s talk about Sir Isaac Newton and all three laws.
First, an object at rest stays at rest, of course,
Unless there’s an outside force.
So the pushing, the pulling, determines the speed,
Like sticks hitting pucks in a rough game of hockey.
A cue stick hits the cue ball,
Transfers force to a new ball,
Hey, I’m only trying to school y’all.
Law two has a few different elements:
Acceleration, mass, and force — it’s all relevant.
Force equals mass times acceleration,
Like fire from the shuttle when you’re blasting off a spaceship.
Law three is the simplest of all:
For every action there’s a reaction;
It never hurts when you’re relaxing,
But when you fall you can feel it,
Newton’s three laws of physics are the realest.
We’re on a world tour.
Flocab and Spectac,
Using motion every day to get us
There and back.
East coast, west coast,
North, south, worldwide,
Putting in the work and
We’re keeping it live.
Flocab Spits Facts
In the Space Shuttle
Friction
Science Speaks
Classification
"Kids Prefer Cheese Over Fried Green Spinach"
Kids Prefer Cheese Over Fried Green Spinach.
King Paul Cried Out For Good Soup.
King Philip Came Over For Grape Soda.
(But) King Philip Couldn’t Order Five Good Shakes.
Kind People Create Only Fine Green Shirts.
Keep Pots Clean Or Family Gets Sick.
Kids Playing Catch On Freeways Get Smashed.
Karate Pirates Chew On Fresh Garden Salads.
Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species.
Let’s say you’re bored,
You need something spicy, like hot mustard.
You go to Blockbuster to get a movie,
But all the movies haven’t been divided and classified,
They’re in one big pile. So to find your favorite DVD,
Which is Hannah Montana in 3-D, it takes you like three weeks.
So you get real weak and you die,
Is this how it has to end? Let’s rewind.
You go to Blockbuster to get a DVD,
Now they’re organized; oh, it’s so easy!
They’re put in sections and they’re rated, too,
So you can find a flick that’s great for you.
"Did you know Kangaroo Pouches Can Only Feel Good Sometimes?"
Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species.
Now scientists, they do it the same,
Everything they see in the world, they give a name.
They classify things, divide ’em up,
So they don’t confuse a squirrel with a skunk.
For kingdoms, there used to only be two,
Animal or plant, but then they found some dudes
Who didn’t really fit in either one,
So now we have six kingdoms.
Archaebacteria are so old,
Even in hot springs, they stay cold.
You find Eubacteria in you,
Live in your tubes and digest your food.
I tell my Starbucks barista: "Hold the Protista!"
I don’t want algae in my grande latte.
But I do like mushrooms, so I eat the Fungi,
They absorb energy; they don’t need sunlight.
Animalia’s animals,
Like sharks, humans, ants, and moles.
You like plants? We have plenty of Plantae:
Flowers, grasses, weeds, and trees.
Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species.
"You know, Karaoke Provides Celebrity Opportunities For Good Singers."
"That’s true, but Kryptonite Prevents Certain Opponents From Getting Strong."
"Yes, I know, but Kafka Purportedly Couldn’t Oppose Foucault’s Greatest Sentiments."
"Look, man, just Keep Playing Clips Of Flocab’s Greatest Songs, okay?"
Cells and Body Systems
"Cell Power"
Hey now children, settle down. Today we’re going to talk about life. There are six ways to know
you’re alive for sure.
1. Living things have cells
2. They use stimuli to maintain a homeostasis.
3. They have DNA.
4. They reproduce.
I said no laughing!
5. They live, thrive, and die.
6. They use energy.
Ayo, first things first:
There’s three different types of living things on the Earth.
Ya heard?
There’s organisms with one cell,
Whose life functions are performed by organelles.
And green plants use photosynthesis,
A chloroplast converts sunlight and lives with it.
And last are the animals, listen,
Cells, tissue, organ-to-organ system.
And they’re unique; I can’t lie, homes,
Only animal cells contain lysosomes.
But all cells contain ribosomes.
They make proteins, the building blocks, I suppose.
But don’t get caught slipping
On the oils and the fats, a.k.a. the lipids.
Cells need fuel — they break carbohydrates
Into ATP, adenosine triphosphate.
Alright y’all! Cell theory has three parts:
1. All living things are composed of one or more cells.
2. The cell is the basic unit of life in all organisms.
3. All cells come from existing cells.
On top of that, they all have a cell membrane surrounding the cytoplasm, and most plants and
bacterium have a cell wall.
Now let’s travel to the center of the cell,
The nucleus, where nucleic acids are held.
They form DNA, the genetic code,
And multiply by mitosis if you let it go.
It’s incredible, like the duty is
Of mitochondria — extract energy from nutrients.
And did I mention, the spot they make the lipids in,
Is the ER, or endoplasmic reticulum?
And the Golgi complex is next to it,
Delivering the products of the ER — excellent!
To hit the exit, you could use diffusion,
The membrane will pass in or out of solution.
Of all movement, the cell has control,
To dispose of waste in a vacuole.
And that can use active transport,
To either squeeze out or ingest something, so plan for it.
Okay y’all, you know us humans are a complex, multicellular organism. We have many systems
made of specialized cells, tissues, and organs. You know, systems like the digestive, respiratory,
cardiovascular, excretory, reproductive, and nervous systems — and all of these systems work
together, to keep homeostasis of man. Cell power!
Oh, to be human,
Word to my circulatorythat stays moving.
I got heart, got blood, got arteries,
Veins drain back to my heart. And plus, guarding me
Are antibodies, part of my immune system,
Peace to my muscles and bones; I move with them.
It’s in coordination with the brain and the spine,
My central nervous design.
When neurons are sent through my peripheral,
And the endocrine is closely connected with it, yo,
Secreting hormones, chemical messengers.
And respiration works every time a breath occurs.
Oxygen will release the energy
Of food that we digest, so let me eat!
And if I gotta excrete,
Sweating through my skin, that’s ’cause I got heat!
Alright y’all! Now who in here can spell flagella? And who knows where the word came from, "cell"?
Anybody know that it’s Latin? Cellula means "small room." Now before y’all go, let me remind you:
Don’t forget to respect the building block of life. Give it up for cells, y‘all! Alright, class dismissed.
Class dismissed. Get your flagella out of here.
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Genes and Heredity
"We are DNA"
Now life is the oldest story ever told;
It’s noticed from warmest climates to the coldest.
But genes have the code that let it unfold,
They determine our traits, from our toes to our noses.
Genes are composed of DNA, so
We find DNA on the (on the) chromosomes,
In every living cell that an organism owns,
So genes make a frog from a tadpole.
It’s a program like Microsoft Word (up),
And it lets your body know just how to grow up.
From your eyes to the skin on your arms and your legs,
You get it from your parents — from the sperm and the egg.
Watson and Crick were on some awesomeness:
Life, and the double helix causing it.
Identical twins have the same DNA,
But 98% is the same as a great ape’s.
But it’s those little differences that make us unique,
You can try to make it the same with the cloning technique.
I get so smooth on the beat that you might have to rewind it,
Not your Levi’s kid; these genes are for life.
We are DNA.
Don’t start, we don’t play.
Like genes control your face,
Like dominant traits, we dominate.
Traits aren’t just random; they get passed along,
Like, you probably won’t give birth to a mastodon.
Unless you happen to be a mastodon,
But if you’re listening to this song, I guess you probably aren’t.
Traits get passed to you from your parents, kid,
From sexual reproduction, uh, yes they did.
If your mom is blonde, and your dad has dark hair,
You’re like, "Why am I not blonde lIke my mom?"
The blonde genes you got from your mom aren’t strong,
Dark hair’s a dominant trait, it dominates.
But the blonde genes from your mom aren’t really bad,
They’re just recessive; they hide in the back.
One time I cut my thigh, I was like, "This is hopeless,
I think I’m going to die." I forgot about mitosis.
Cells divide and grow into new,
Skin comes back like a boomerang, who are you?
We are DNA.
Don’t start, we don’t play.
Like genes control your face,
Like dominant traits, we dominate.
Flocab Spits Facts:
Beyond the Lyrics
Science Speaks