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From the Ted Talk by Sylvia Earle: My wish Protect our oceans

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Tim wrtoh says the ecomony is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the environment. With every drop of water you drnik, every breath you take, you're centeoncd to the sea. No matter where on Earth you live. Most of the oxygen in the atmosphere is generated by the sea. Over time, most of the planet's oinagrc carbon has been absorbed and stored there, mostly by microbes. The ocean drives climate and waeethr, stabilizes temperature, shapes Earth's chemistry. Water from the sea forms cdluos that return to the land and the seas as rain, sleet and snow, and provides home for about 97 pnerect of life in the world, maybe in the universe. No water, no life; no blue, no green.

Open Cloze

Tim _____ says the _______ is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the environment. With every drop of water you _____, every breath you take, you're _________ to the sea. No matter where on Earth you live. Most of the oxygen in the atmosphere is generated by the sea. Over time, most of the planet's _______ carbon has been absorbed and stored there, mostly by microbes. The ocean drives climate and _______, stabilizes temperature, shapes Earth's chemistry. Water from the sea forms ______ that return to the land and the seas as rain, sleet and snow, and provides home for about 97 _______ of life in the world, maybe in the universe. No water, no life; no blue, no green.

Solution

  1. weather
  2. connected
  3. clouds
  4. organic
  5. economy
  6. drink
  7. percent
  8. worth

Original Text

Tim Worth says the economy is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the environment. With every drop of water you drink, every breath you take, you're connected to the sea. No matter where on Earth you live. Most of the oxygen in the atmosphere is generated by the sea. Over time, most of the planet's organic carbon has been absorbed and stored there, mostly by microbes. The ocean drives climate and weather, stabilizes temperature, shapes Earth's chemistry. Water from the sea forms clouds that return to the land and the seas as rain, sleet and snow, and provides home for about 97 percent of life in the world, maybe in the universe. No water, no life; no blue, no green.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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coral reefs 5
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bad news 5
natural systems 4
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intelligent life 2
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collocation frequency
life support system 5

Important Words

  1. absorbed
  2. atmosphere
  3. blue
  4. breath
  5. carbon
  6. chemistry
  7. climate
  8. clouds
  9. connected
  10. drink
  11. drives
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  14. economy
  15. environment
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  17. generated
  18. green
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  20. land
  21. life
  22. live
  23. matter
  24. microbes
  25. ocean
  26. organic
  27. oxygen
  28. percent
  29. rain
  30. return
  31. sea
  32. seas
  33. shapes
  34. sleet
  35. snow
  36. stabilizes
  37. stored
  38. subsidiary
  39. temperature
  40. tim
  41. time
  42. universe
  43. water
  44. weather
  45. world
  46. worth