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From the Ted Talk by Allan Savory: How to fight desertification and reverse climate change
Unscramble the Blue Letters
I took this pruitce in the Tihamah Desert while 25 mlremiielts — that's an inch of rain — was falling. Think of it in terms of drums of water, each containing 200 lirets. Over 1,000 drums of water fell on every hectare of that land that day. The next day, the land looked like this. Where had that wetar gone? Some of it ran off as fndoolig, but most of the water that soaked into the soil simply evaporated out again, exactly as it does in your garden if you leave the soil uneecorvd. Now, because the fate of water and carbon are tied to soil organic matter, when we damage soils, you give off carbon. Carbon goes back to the atmosphere.
Open Cloze
I took this _______ in the Tihamah Desert while 25 ___________ — that's an inch of rain — was falling. Think of it in terms of drums of water, each containing 200 ______. Over 1,000 drums of water fell on every hectare of that land that day. The next day, the land looked like this. Where had that _____ gone? Some of it ran off as ________, but most of the water that soaked into the soil simply evaporated out again, exactly as it does in your garden if you leave the soil _________. Now, because the fate of water and carbon are tied to soil organic matter, when we damage soils, you give off carbon. Carbon goes back to the atmosphere.
Solution
- flooding
- uncovered
- water
- liters
- picture
- millimeters
Original Text
I took this picture in the Tihamah Desert while 25 millimeters — that's an inch of rain — was falling. Think of it in terms of drums of water, each containing 200 liters. Over 1,000 drums of water fell on every hectare of that land that day. The next day, the land looked like this. Where had that water gone? Some of it ran off as flooding, but most of the water that soaked into the soil simply evaporated out again, exactly as it does in your garden if you leave the soil uncovered. Now, because the fate of water and carbon are tied to soil organic matter, when we damage soils, you give off carbon. Carbon goes back to the atmosphere.
Frequently Occurring Word Combinations
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| climate change |
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| mimic nature |
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| perfect storm |
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| fossil fuels |
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| bare ground |
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| dry season |
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| causing climate |
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| land looked |
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| national parks |
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| long dry |
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| causing desertification |
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| feed people |
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| causing climate change |
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| long dry season |
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Important Words
- atmosphere
- carbon
- damage
- day
- desert
- drums
- evaporated
- falling
- fate
- fell
- flooding
- garden
- give
- hectare
- inch
- land
- leave
- liters
- looked
- matter
- millimeters
- organic
- picture
- rain
- ran
- simply
- soaked
- soil
- soils
- terms
- tied
- tihamah
- uncovered
- water