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From the Ted Talk by Will Marshall: The mission to create a searchable database of Earth's surface

Unscramble the Blue Letters

And lots of people are using this imagery. Agricultural companies are using it to iovpmre farmers' crop yields. Consumer-mapping cmpieonas are using it to improve the maps you find online. Governments are using it for border stuirecy or helping with detssiar response after foolds and fires and earthquakes. And lots of NGOs are using it. So, for tracking and stopping deforestation. Or helping to find the refugees fleeing Myanmar. Or to track all the activities in the ongoing crisis in Syria, holding all sides accountable.

Open Cloze

And lots of people are using this imagery. Agricultural companies are using it to _______ farmers' crop yields. Consumer-mapping _________ are using it to improve the maps you find online. Governments are using it for border ________ or helping with ________ response after ______ and fires and earthquakes. And lots of NGOs are using it. So, for tracking and stopping deforestation. Or helping to find the refugees fleeing Myanmar. Or to track all the activities in the ongoing crisis in Syria, holding all sides accountable.

Solution

  1. disaster
  2. improve
  3. security
  4. companies
  5. floods

Original Text

And lots of people are using this imagery. Agricultural companies are using it to improve farmers' crop yields. Consumer-mapping companies are using it to improve the maps you find online. Governments are using it for border security or helping with disaster response after floods and fires and earthquakes. And lots of NGOs are using it. So, for tracking and stopping deforestation. Or helping to find the refugees fleeing Myanmar. Or to track all the activities in the ongoing crisis in Syria, holding all sides accountable.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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give people 3
find online 2
coast guards 2
illegal fishing 2
fishing vessels 2

Important Words

  1. accountable
  2. activities
  3. agricultural
  4. border
  5. companies
  6. crisis
  7. crop
  8. deforestation
  9. disaster
  10. earthquakes
  11. find
  12. fires
  13. fleeing
  14. floods
  15. governments
  16. helping
  17. holding
  18. imagery
  19. improve
  20. lots
  21. maps
  22. myanmar
  23. ngos
  24. ongoing
  25. online
  26. people
  27. refugees
  28. response
  29. security
  30. sides
  31. stopping
  32. syria
  33. track
  34. tracking
  35. yields