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From the Ted Talk by Nicola Jones: The dangers of a noisy ocean -- and how we can quiet it down

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Perhaps the easiest thing for scientists to assess is the ecffet of acute noise, really loud sudden blasts that might cause physical injury or hearing loss. Beaked whales, for example, can go into panicked dives when exposed to loud nsoeis, which may even give them a condition similar to the bdens. In the 1960s, after the introduction of more powerful sonar technologies, the nembur of incidents of mass whale strandings of beaked whales went up dilalartamcy. And it's not just marine mammals, fish, if they stray too close to the source of a loud sound, their fish bladders may actually exopdle. The airgun blasts from seismic suvyers can mow down a swath of zlaoptokonn, the tiny ceuaetrrs near the base of the food chain, or can deform scallop larvae while they're developing.

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Perhaps the easiest thing for scientists to assess is the ______ of acute noise, really loud sudden blasts that might cause physical injury or hearing loss. Beaked whales, for example, can go into panicked dives when exposed to loud ______, which may even give them a condition similar to the _____. In the 1960s, after the introduction of more powerful sonar technologies, the ______ of incidents of mass whale strandings of beaked whales went up ____________. And it's not just marine mammals, fish, if they stray too close to the source of a loud sound, their fish bladders may actually _______. The airgun blasts from seismic _______ can mow down a swath of ___________, the tiny _________ near the base of the food chain, or can deform scallop larvae while they're developing.

Solution

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  2. surveys
  3. zooplankton
  4. number
  5. explode
  6. creatures
  7. effect
  8. dramatically
  9. bends

Original Text

Perhaps the easiest thing for scientists to assess is the effect of acute noise, really loud sudden blasts that might cause physical injury or hearing loss. Beaked whales, for example, can go into panicked dives when exposed to loud noises, which may even give them a condition similar to the bends. In the 1960s, after the introduction of more powerful sonar technologies, the number of incidents of mass whale strandings of beaked whales went up dramatically. And it's not just marine mammals, fish, if they stray too close to the source of a loud sound, their fish bladders may actually explode. The airgun blasts from seismic surveys can mow down a swath of zooplankton, the tiny creatures near the base of the food chain, or can deform scallop larvae while they're developing.

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