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From the Ted Talk by Carlos M. Duarte: The unexpected, underwater plant fighting climate change
Unscramble the Blue Letters
So as we became aware of the important role of seagrass in carbon sequestration, and also in defending our shorelines, then we were almost too late to bnfieet from those protections, because, sadly, we had lost a lot of seagrass in the ocean. In the 1930s, disease wiped out sasagres along both sides of the Atlantic. And as they were starting to recover, sewage input and agricultural runoff led to mortality of seagrass along the shores of all continents, and that was aggravated further with mechanical dgmaae, such as the dragging of this anchor from a megayacht in the Mediterranean that is plwoing away this mnrlealiy seagrass, exposing the semdniet and resuspending it so that it will be emitted back into the atmosphere as carbon ddxoiie. And that was compounded with dredging, trawling and coastal wrkos that impacted seagrass.
Open Cloze
So as we became aware of the important role of seagrass in carbon sequestration, and also in defending our shorelines, then we were almost too late to _______ from those protections, because, sadly, we had lost a lot of seagrass in the ocean. In the 1930s, disease wiped out ________ along both sides of the Atlantic. And as they were starting to recover, sewage input and agricultural runoff led to mortality of seagrass along the shores of all continents, and that was aggravated further with mechanical ______, such as the dragging of this anchor from a megayacht in the Mediterranean that is _______ away this _________ seagrass, exposing the ________ and resuspending it so that it will be emitted back into the atmosphere as carbon _______. And that was compounded with dredging, trawling and coastal _____ that impacted seagrass.
Solution
- plowing
- millenary
- sediment
- dioxide
- seagrass
- benefit
- works
- damage
Original Text
So as we became aware of the important role of seagrass in carbon sequestration, and also in defending our shorelines, then we were almost too late to benefit from those protections, because, sadly, we had lost a lot of seagrass in the ocean. In the 1930s, disease wiped out seagrass along both sides of the Atlantic. And as they were starting to recover, sewage input and agricultural runoff led to mortality of seagrass along the shores of all continents, and that was aggravated further with mechanical damage, such as the dragging of this anchor from a megayacht in the Mediterranean that is plowing away this millenary seagrass, exposing the sediment and resuspending it so that it will be emitted back into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide. And that was compounded with dredging, trawling and coastal works that impacted seagrass.
Frequently Occurring Word Combinations
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collocation |
frequency |
seagrass meadows |
6 |
square kilometers |
4 |
seagrass reef |
3 |
footnote seagrasses |
2 |
flowering plants |
2 |
ocean footnote |
2 |
carbon dioxide |
2 |
climate change |
2 |
seagrasses form |
2 |
tiger sharks |
2 |
seagrass meadow |
2 |
protect seagrasses |
2 |
healthy ocean |
2 |
Important Words
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- agricultural
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- mediterranean
- megayacht
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- mortality
- ocean
- plowing
- protections
- recover
- resuspending
- role
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- seagrass
- sediment
- sequestration
- sewage
- shorelines
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- starting
- trawling
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