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From the Ted Talk by Phil Plait: How to defend Earth from asteroids

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Now, this is not a 200-mile-wide crater, but then again, you can see the rock, which is sitting right here, about the size of a football, that hit that car and did that damage. Now, this thing was probably about the size of a school bus when it first came in. It broke up through aotemhspirc pressure, it crumbled, and then the pieces fell apart and did some dgamae. Now, you wouldn't want that fllinag on your foot or your head, because it would do that to it. That would be bad. But it won't wipe out, you know, all life on Earth, so that's fine.

Open Cloze

Now, this is not a 200-mile-wide crater, but then again, you can see the rock, which is sitting right here, about the size of a football, that hit that car and did that damage. Now, this thing was probably about the size of a school bus when it first came in. It broke up through ___________ pressure, it crumbled, and then the pieces fell apart and did some ______. Now, you wouldn't want that _______ on your foot or your head, because it would do that to it. That would be bad. But it won't wipe out, you know, all life on Earth, so that's fine.

Solution

  1. damage
  2. falling
  3. atmospheric

Original Text

Now, this is not a 200-mile-wide crater, but then again, you can see the rock, which is sitting right here, about the size of a football, that hit that car and did that damage. Now, this thing was probably about the size of a school bus when it first came in. It broke up through atmospheric pressure, it crumbled, and then the pieces fell apart and did some damage. Now, you wouldn't want that falling on your foot or your head, because it would do that to it. That would be bad. But it won't wipe out, you know, all life on Earth, so that's fine.

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Important Words

  1. atmospheric
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  4. bus
  5. car
  6. crater
  7. crumbled
  8. damage
  9. earth
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