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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
- delight
- seals
- embodies
- currents
- disconnect
- whales
- 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
- amaze
- arctic
- bearded
- beluga
- blue
- bowhead
- change
- cold
- collides
- cracks
- currents
- dead
- delight
- disconnect
- ears
- embodies
- eyes
- groans
- hear
- ice
- kilometers
- percent
- pops
- rubs
- screeches
- sea
- seals
- singing
- sounds
- surface
- telling
- temperature
- underwater
- walrus
- whales
- white
- winds
- winter