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From the Ted Talk by Paul Snelgrove: A census of the ocean
Unscramble the Blue Letters
And I could spend the rest of my time, which is getting very lmieitd, going through this litany of concerns about the ocean, but I want to end on a more positive note. And so the grand challenge then is to try and make sure that we preserve what's left, because there is still spectacular beauty. And the oeacns are so productive, there's so much going on in there that's of relevance to hamnus that we really need to, even from a selfish perspective, try to do better than we have in the past. So we need to recognize those hot spots and do our best to pteocrt them.
Open Cloze
And I could spend the rest of my time, which is getting very _______, going through this litany of concerns about the ocean, but I want to end on a more positive note. And so the grand challenge then is to try and make sure that we preserve what's left, because there is still spectacular beauty. And the ______ are so productive, there's so much going on in there that's of relevance to ______ that we really need to, even from a selfish perspective, try to do better than we have in the past. So we need to recognize those hot spots and do our best to _______ them.
Solution
- humans
- oceans
- limited
- protect
Original Text
And I could spend the rest of my time, which is getting very limited, going through this litany of concerns about the ocean, but I want to end on a more positive note. And so the grand challenge then is to try and make sure that we preserve what's left, because there is still spectacular beauty. And the oceans are so productive, there's so much going on in there that's of relevance to humans that we really need to, even from a selfish perspective, try to do better than we have in the past. So we need to recognize those hot spots and do our best to protect them.
Frequently Occurring Word Combinations
ngrams of length 2
collocation |
frequency |
sea floor |
3 |
sound waves |
3 |
hot spots |
3 |
deep ocean |
2 |
deep sea |
2 |
limiting step |
2 |
endangered species |
2 |
east coast |
2 |
dark blue |
2 |
marine mammals |
2 |
trophy fish |
2 |
high school |
2 |
york city |
2 |
north sea |
2 |
white shark |
2 |
census scientists |
2 |
coral reefs |
2 |
Important Words
- beauty
- challenge
- concerns
- grand
- hot
- humans
- left
- limited
- litany
- note
- ocean
- oceans
- perspective
- positive
- preserve
- productive
- protect
- recognize
- relevance
- rest
- selfish
- spectacular
- spend
- spots
- time