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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

  1. humans
  2. oceans
  3. limited
  4. 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

  1. beauty
  2. challenge
  3. concerns
  4. grand
  5. hot
  6. humans
  7. left
  8. limited
  9. litany
  10. note
  11. ocean
  12. oceans
  13. perspective
  14. positive
  15. preserve
  16. productive
  17. protect
  18. recognize
  19. relevance
  20. rest
  21. selfish
  22. spectacular
  23. spend
  24. spots
  25. time