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From the Ted Talk by Eric Sanderson: New York -- before the City

Unscramble the Blue Letters

And this is the network of all the habitat relationships of all the pntals and aailnms on Manhattan, and everything they needed, going back to the geology, going back to time and space at the very core of the web. We call this the Muir Web. And if you zoom in on it it looks like this. Each point is a different species or a different stream or a different soil type. And those little gray lines are the connections that connect them together. They are the connections that actually make ntraue rniseleit. And the stuctrure of this is what makes nature work, seen with all its parts. We call these Muir Webs after the Scottish-American naturalist John Muir, who said, "When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find that it's bound fast by a thousand invisible codrs that cannot be broken, to everything in the ursnieve."

Open Cloze

And this is the network of all the habitat relationships of all the ______ and _______ on Manhattan, and everything they needed, going back to the geology, going back to time and space at the very core of the web. We call this the Muir Web. And if you zoom in on it it looks like this. Each point is a different species or a different stream or a different soil type. And those little gray lines are the connections that connect them together. They are the connections that actually make ______ _________. And the _________ of this is what makes nature work, seen with all its parts. We call these Muir Webs after the Scottish-American naturalist John Muir, who said, "When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find that it's bound fast by a thousand invisible _____ that cannot be broken, to everything in the ________."

Solution

  1. plants
  2. animals
  3. universe
  4. resilient
  5. nature
  6. structure
  7. cords

Original Text

And this is the network of all the habitat relationships of all the plants and animals on Manhattan, and everything they needed, going back to the geology, going back to time and space at the very core of the web. We call this the Muir Web. And if you zoom in on it it looks like this. Each point is a different species or a different stream or a different soil type. And those little gray lines are the connections that connect them together. They are the connections that actually make nature resilient. And the structure of this is what makes nature work, seen with all its parts. We call these Muir Webs after the Scottish-American naturalist John Muir, who said, "When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find that it's bound fast by a thousand invisible cords that cannot be broken, to everything in the universe."

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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collocation frequency
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Important Words

  1. animals
  2. bound
  3. broken
  4. call
  5. connect
  6. connections
  7. cords
  8. core
  9. fast
  10. find
  11. geology
  12. gray
  13. habitat
  14. invisible
  15. john
  16. lines
  17. manhattan
  18. muir
  19. naturalist
  20. nature
  21. needed
  22. network
  23. parts
  24. pick
  25. plants
  26. point
  27. relationships
  28. resilient
  29. soil
  30. space
  31. species
  32. stream
  33. structure
  34. thousand
  35. time
  36. type
  37. universe
  38. web
  39. webs
  40. work
  41. zoom