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From the Ted Talk by Nina Jablonski: Skin color is an illusion

Unscramble the Blue Letters

If only Darwin lived taody. If only Darwin had NASA. Now, one of the wnurodefl things that NASA does is it puts up a variety of stitlleaes that detect all sort of ittiesrnneg things about our eonrminnvet. And for many decades now there have been a series of TOMS satellites that have collected data about the radiation of the Earth's surface. The TOMS 7 stltelaie data, shown here, show the annual average uraltoilvet riioaatdn at the Earth's surface. Now the really hot pink and red areas are those parts of the world that receive the highest amounts of UV during the year. The incrementally cooler colors — blues, greens, yellows, and finally grays — indicate areas of much lower ultraviolet radiation.

Open Cloze

If only Darwin lived _____. If only Darwin had NASA. Now, one of the _________ things that NASA does is it puts up a variety of __________ that detect all sort of ___________ things about our ___________. And for many decades now there have been a series of TOMS satellites that have collected data about the radiation of the Earth's surface. The TOMS 7 _________ data, shown here, show the annual average ___________ _________ at the Earth's surface. Now the really hot pink and red areas are those parts of the world that receive the highest amounts of UV during the year. The incrementally cooler colors — blues, greens, yellows, and finally grays — indicate areas of much lower ultraviolet radiation.

Solution

  1. interesting
  2. satellite
  3. radiation
  4. today
  5. environment
  6. wonderful
  7. satellites
  8. ultraviolet

Original Text

If only Darwin lived today. If only Darwin had NASA. Now, one of the wonderful things that NASA does is it puts up a variety of satellites that detect all sort of interesting things about our environment. And for many decades now there have been a series of TOMS satellites that have collected data about the radiation of the Earth's surface. The TOMS 7 satellite data, shown here, show the annual average ultraviolet radiation at the Earth's surface. Now the really hot pink and red areas are those parts of the world that receive the highest amounts of UV during the year. The incrementally cooler colors — blues, greens, yellows, and finally grays — indicate areas of much lower ultraviolet radiation.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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ultraviolet radiation 8
skin pigmentation 7
lightly pigmented 5
darkly pigmented 5
human skin 5
pigmented skin 4
skin color 2
northern hemisphere 2
natural sunscreen 2
humans dispersed 2
tremendous consequences 2
high uv 2
uv areas 2
invidious social 2
skin live 2
pigmented people 2
people living 2

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collocation frequency
human skin pigmentation 4
lightly pigmented skin 3
pigmented skin live 2
darkly pigmented people 2
pigmented people living 2

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collocation frequency
darkly pigmented people living 2

Important Words

  1. amounts
  2. annual
  3. areas
  4. average
  5. blues
  6. collected
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  8. cooler
  9. darwin
  10. data
  11. decades
  12. detect
  13. environment
  14. finally
  15. grays
  16. greens
  17. highest
  18. hot
  19. incrementally
  20. interesting
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  22. nasa
  23. parts
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  25. puts
  26. radiation
  27. receive
  28. red
  29. satellite
  30. satellites
  31. series
  32. show
  33. shown
  34. sort
  35. surface
  36. today
  37. toms
  38. ultraviolet
  39. uv
  40. variety
  41. wonderful
  42. world
  43. year
  44. yellows