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From the Ted Talk by Kate Stafford: How human noise affects ocean habitats

Unscramble the Blue Letters

To me, the Arctic really eoeimbds this dnoscnecit between what we see on the surface and what's going on underwater. You can look out across the ice — all white and blue and cold — and see nothing. But if you could hear underwater, the sounds you would hear would at first amaze and then dlehigt you. And while your eyes are seeing nothing for kilometers but ice, your ears are tnleilg you that out there are bowhead and beluga whales, walrus and bearded sales. The ice, too, makes sounds. It screeches and cracks and pops and groans, as it collides and rubs when temperature or cerrutns or winds change. And under 100 percent sea ice in the dead of winter, bowhead wehlas are singing.

Open Cloze

To me, the Arctic really ________ this __________ between what we see on the surface and what's going on underwater. You can look out across the ice — all white and blue and cold — and see nothing. But if you could hear underwater, the sounds you would hear would at first amaze and then _______ you. And while your eyes are seeing nothing for kilometers but ice, your ears are _______ you that out there are bowhead and beluga whales, walrus and bearded _____. The ice, too, makes sounds. It screeches and cracks and pops and groans, as it collides and rubs when temperature or ________ or winds change. And under 100 percent sea ice in the dead of winter, bowhead ______ are singing.

Solution

  1. delight
  2. seals
  3. embodies
  4. currents
  5. disconnect
  6. whales
  7. telling

Original Text

To me, the Arctic really embodies this disconnect between what we see on the surface and what's going on underwater. You can look out across the ice — all white and blue and cold — and see nothing. But if you could hear underwater, the sounds you would hear would at first amaze and then delight you. And while your eyes are seeing nothing for kilometers but ice, your ears are telling you that out there are bowhead and beluga whales, walrus and bearded seals. The ice, too, makes sounds. It screeches and cracks and pops and groans, as it collides and rubs when temperature or currents or winds change. And under 100 percent sea ice in the dead of winter, bowhead whales are singing.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
sea ice 7
marine mammals 6
seasonal sea 5
arctic marine 4
open water 4
underwater soundscape 3
ambient noise 3
noise levels 3
subarctic species 3
jacques cousteau 2
underwater world 2
climate change 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
arctic marine mammals 4
ambient noise levels 2
seasonal sea ice 2

Important Words

  1. amaze
  2. arctic
  3. bearded
  4. beluga
  5. blue
  6. bowhead
  7. change
  8. cold
  9. collides
  10. cracks
  11. currents
  12. dead
  13. delight
  14. disconnect
  15. ears
  16. embodies
  17. eyes
  18. groans
  19. hear
  20. ice
  21. kilometers
  22. percent
  23. pops
  24. rubs
  25. screeches
  26. sea
  27. seals
  28. singing
  29. sounds
  30. surface
  31. telling
  32. temperature
  33. underwater
  34. walrus
  35. whales
  36. white
  37. winds
  38. winter