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From the Ted Talk by Peter Tyack: The intriguing sound of marine mammals

Unscramble the Blue Letters

Thank you so much. I'm going to try to take you on a journey of the underwater actsouic world of whales and dolphins. Since we are such a visual species, it's hard for us to really understand this, so I'll use a mixture of figures and sounds and hope this can communicate it. But let's also think, as a visual species, what it's like when we go snorkeling or diving and try to look underwater. We really can't see very far. Our visoin, which wkors so well in air, all of a sudden is very restricted and claustrophobic. And what mianre mammals have evolved over the last tens of mloniils of years is ways to depend on sound to both explore their wolrd and also to stay in touch with one another.

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Thank you so much. I'm going to try to take you on a journey of the underwater ________ world of whales and dolphins. Since we are such a visual species, it's hard for us to really understand this, so I'll use a mixture of figures and sounds and hope this can communicate it. But let's also think, as a visual species, what it's like when we go snorkeling or diving and try to look underwater. We really can't see very far. Our ______, which _____ so well in air, all of a sudden is very restricted and claustrophobic. And what ______ mammals have evolved over the last tens of ________ of years is ways to depend on sound to both explore their _____ and also to stay in touch with one another.

Solution

  1. millions
  2. acoustic
  3. marine
  4. vision
  5. works
  6. world

Original Text

Thank you so much. I'm going to try to take you on a journey of the underwater acoustic world of whales and dolphins. Since we are such a visual species, it's hard for us to really understand this, so I'll use a mixture of figures and sounds and hope this can communicate it. But let's also think, as a visual species, what it's like when we go snorkeling or diving and try to look underwater. We really can't see very far. Our vision, which works so well in air, all of a sudden is very restricted and claustrophobic. And what marine mammals have evolved over the last tens of millions of years is ways to depend on sound to both explore their world and also to stay in touch with one another.

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Important Words

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