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From the Ted Talk by Kenneth Lacovara: Hunting for dinosaurs showed me our place in the universe

Unscramble the Blue Letters

It wasn't until the turn of the 19th century that our blinders were roemevd, first, with the publication of James Hutton's "Theory of the Earth," in which he told us that the etarh reveals no vsgetie of a beginning and no prospect of an end; and then, with the printing of William Smith's map of Britain, the first country-scale geological map, giving us for the first time predictive insight into where certain types of rkocs might ouccr. After that, you could say things like, "If we go over there, we should be in the Jurassic," or, "If we go up over that hill, we should find the Cretaceous."

Open Cloze

It wasn't until the turn of the 19th century that our blinders were _______, first, with the publication of James Hutton's "Theory of the Earth," in which he told us that the _____ reveals no _______ of a beginning and no prospect of an end; and then, with the printing of William Smith's map of Britain, the first country-scale geological map, giving us for the first time predictive insight into where certain types of _____ might _____. After that, you could say things like, "If we go over there, we should be in the Jurassic," or, "If we go up over that hill, we should find the Cretaceous."

Solution

  1. earth
  2. removed
  3. occur
  4. vestige
  5. rocks

Original Text

It wasn't until the turn of the 19th century that our blinders were removed, first, with the publication of James Hutton's "Theory of the Earth," in which he told us that the Earth reveals no vestige of a beginning and no prospect of an end; and then, with the printing of William Smith's map of Britain, the first country-scale geological map, giving us for the first time predictive insight into where certain types of rocks might occur. After that, you could say things like, "If we go over there, we should be in the Jurassic," or, "If we go up over that hill, we should find the Cretaceous."

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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missouri river 2

Important Words

  1. beginning
  2. blinders
  3. britain
  4. century
  5. cretaceous
  6. earth
  7. find
  8. geological
  9. giving
  10. hill
  11. insight
  12. james
  13. jurassic
  14. map
  15. occur
  16. predictive
  17. printing
  18. prospect
  19. publication
  20. removed
  21. reveals
  22. rocks
  23. time
  24. told
  25. turn
  26. types
  27. vestige
  28. william