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From the Ted Talk by Angelicque White: What ocean microbes reveal about the changing climate

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Let's start in the Pacific Northwest. This place is geren. It is beautiful. These are blooms of phytoplankton that you can see from space along the West Coast of the United States. It's an incredibly productive escseytom. This is where you go to samlon fish, halibut fish, walhe watch. It's a beautiful part of our country. And here, for 10 years, among other things, I studied the uplifting topic of harmful algal blooms. These are blooms of toxin-producing phytoplankton that can cntaianmote food webs and accumulate in shellfish and fish that are harvested for human cmnspooitun. We were trying to understand why they bloom, where they bloom, when they bloom, so we could mngaae these harvests and ptcreot human health. Now, the problem is the ocean's a moving target and, much like some people in our lives, toxicity varies among the ptakolnn.

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Let's start in the Pacific Northwest. This place is _____. It is beautiful. These are blooms of phytoplankton that you can see from space along the West Coast of the United States. It's an incredibly productive _________. This is where you go to ______ fish, halibut fish, _____ watch. It's a beautiful part of our country. And here, for 10 years, among other things, I studied the uplifting topic of harmful algal blooms. These are blooms of toxin-producing phytoplankton that can ___________ food webs and accumulate in shellfish and fish that are harvested for human ___________. We were trying to understand why they bloom, where they bloom, when they bloom, so we could ______ these harvests and _______ human health. Now, the problem is the ocean's a moving target and, much like some people in our lives, toxicity varies among the ________.

Solution

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  2. salmon
  3. contaminate
  4. plankton
  5. manage
  6. green
  7. protect
  8. ecosystem
  9. whale

Original Text

Let's start in the Pacific Northwest. This place is green. It is beautiful. These are blooms of phytoplankton that you can see from space along the West Coast of the United States. It's an incredibly productive ecosystem. This is where you go to salmon fish, halibut fish, whale watch. It's a beautiful part of our country. And here, for 10 years, among other things, I studied the uplifting topic of harmful algal blooms. These are blooms of toxin-producing phytoplankton that can contaminate food webs and accumulate in shellfish and fish that are harvested for human consumption. We were trying to understand why they bloom, where they bloom, when they bloom, so we could manage these harvests and protect human health. Now, the problem is the ocean's a moving target and, much like some people in our lives, toxicity varies among the plankton.

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