full transcript

From the Ted Talk by Paul Snelgrove: A census of the ocean

Unscramble the Blue Letters

So our level of knowledge is much less for other groups of organisms. Now this figure is actually based on a brand new paper that's going to come out in the journal PLoS boogliy. And what is does is pecridt how many more species there are on land and in the ocean. And what they found is that they think that we know of about nine percent of the species in the ocaen. That mneas 91 percent, even after the census, still remain to be drieeoscvd. And so that turns out to be about two million species once all is said and done. So we still have quite a lot of work to do in terms of unknowns.

Open Cloze

So our level of knowledge is much less for other groups of organisms. Now this figure is actually based on a brand new paper that's going to come out in the journal PLoS _______. And what is does is _______ how many more species there are on land and in the ocean. And what they found is that they think that we know of about nine percent of the species in the _____. That _____ 91 percent, even after the census, still remain to be __________. And so that turns out to be about two million species once all is said and done. So we still have quite a lot of work to do in terms of unknowns.

Solution

  1. predict
  2. means
  3. ocean
  4. discovered
  5. biology

Original Text

So our level of knowledge is much less for other groups of organisms. Now this figure is actually based on a brand new paper that's going to come out in the journal PLoS Biology. And what is does is predict how many more species there are on land and in the ocean. And what they found is that they think that we know of about nine percent of the species in the ocean. That means 91 percent, even after the census, still remain to be discovered. And so that turns out to be about two million species once all is said and done. So we still have quite a lot of work to do in terms of unknowns.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
sea floor 3
sound waves 3
hot spots 3
deep ocean 2
deep sea 2
limiting step 2
endangered species 2
east coast 2
dark blue 2
marine mammals 2
trophy fish 2
high school 2
york city 2
north sea 2
white shark 2
census scientists 2
coral reefs 2

Important Words

  1. based
  2. biology
  3. brand
  4. census
  5. discovered
  6. figure
  7. groups
  8. journal
  9. knowledge
  10. land
  11. level
  12. lot
  13. means
  14. million
  15. ocean
  16. organisms
  17. paper
  18. percent
  19. plos
  20. predict
  21. remain
  22. species
  23. terms
  24. turns
  25. unknowns
  26. work