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From the Ted Talk by Charles Moore: Seas of plastic
Unscramble the Blue Letters
Here is a rtoeme island repository for bottles off the coast of Baja California. Isla San Roque is an uninhabited bird rookery off Baja's sparsely populated catrenl coast. Notice that the boletts here have caps on them. Bottles made of poyyenhltlee terephthalate, PET, will sink in seawater and not make it this far from civilization. Also, the caps are produced in separate factories from a different plastic, polypropylene. They will float in seawater, but unfortunately do not get recycled under the bttloe bills.
Open Cloze
Here is a ______ island repository for bottles off the coast of Baja California. Isla San Roque is an uninhabited bird rookery off Baja's sparsely populated _______ coast. Notice that the _______ here have caps on them. Bottles made of ____________ terephthalate, PET, will sink in seawater and not make it this far from civilization. Also, the caps are produced in separate factories from a different plastic, polypropylene. They will float in seawater, but unfortunately do not get recycled under the ______ bills.
Solution
- polyethylene
- remote
- bottles
- bottle
- central
Original Text
Here is a remote island repository for bottles off the coast of Baja California. Isla San Roque is an uninhabited bird rookery off Baja's sparsely populated central coast. Notice that the bottles here have caps on them. Bottles made of polyethylene terephthalate, PET, will sink in seawater and not make it this far from civilization. Also, the caps are produced in separate factories from a different plastic, polypropylene. They will float in seawater, but unfortunately do not get recycled under the bottle bills.
Frequently Occurring Word Combinations
ngrams of length 2
collocation |
frequency |
bottle caps |
5 |
long beach |
4 |
plastic fragments |
2 |
certified organic |
2 |
Important Words
- baja
- bills
- bird
- bottle
- bottles
- california
- caps
- central
- civilization
- coast
- factories
- float
- isla
- island
- notice
- pet
- plastic
- polyethylene
- polypropylene
- populated
- produced
- recycled
- remote
- repository
- rookery
- roque
- san
- seawater
- separate
- sink
- sparsely
- terephthalate
- uninhabited