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From the Ted Talk by Karen Lloyd: The mysterious microbes living deep inside the earth -- and how they could help humanity

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It may seem like we're all standing on solid earth right now, but we're not. The rocks and the dirt underneath us are cisessrsrocd by tiny little fractures and empty spaces. And these empty sceaps are filled with asratomioncl quantities of microbes, such as these ones. The dpeseet that we found microbes so far into the etarh is five kilometers down. So like, if you pointed yourself at the ground and took off running into the ground, you could run an entire 5K race and microbes would line your whole path.

Open Cloze

It may seem like we're all standing on solid earth right now, but we're not. The rocks and the dirt underneath us are ____________ by tiny little fractures and empty spaces. And these empty ______ are filled with ____________ quantities of microbes, such as these ones. The _______ that we found microbes so far into the _____ is five kilometers down. So like, if you pointed yourself at the ground and took off running into the ground, you could run an entire 5K race and microbes would line your whole path.

Solution

  1. earth
  2. deepest
  3. spaces
  4. astronomical
  5. crisscrossed

Original Text

It may seem like we're all standing on solid earth right now, but we're not. The rocks and the dirt underneath us are crisscrossed by tiny little fractures and empty spaces. And these empty spaces are filled with astronomical quantities of microbes, such as these ones. The deepest that we found microbes so far into the earth is five kilometers down. So like, if you pointed yourself at the ground and took off running into the ground, you could run an entire 5K race and microbes would line your whole path.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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carbon dioxide 10
deep subsurface 7
costa rica 4
oceanic plate 3
deeply buried 3
buried oceanic 3
empty spaces 2
billion tons 2
pretty good 2
human life 2
life span 2
subsurface microbes 2
surface world 2
waste product 2
oceanic tectonic 2
tectonic plate 2
subduction zones 2
subsurface world 2
hot springs 2
hot spring 2

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collocation frequency
deeply buried oceanic 3
human life span 2
deep subsurface microbes 2
oceanic tectonic plate 2
buried oceanic plate 2

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collocation frequency
deeply buried oceanic plate 2

Important Words

  1. astronomical
  2. crisscrossed
  3. deepest
  4. dirt
  5. earth
  6. empty
  7. entire
  8. filled
  9. fractures
  10. ground
  11. kilometers
  12. line
  13. microbes
  14. path
  15. pointed
  16. quantities
  17. race
  18. rocks
  19. run
  20. running
  21. solid
  22. spaces
  23. standing
  24. tiny