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From the Ted Talk by Paul Nicklen: Animal tales from icy wonderlands

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I'm going to show you pictures of beluga whales, bhwaeod whales, and narwhals, and polar bears, and leopard seals today, but this picture right here means more to me than any other I've ever made. I dropped down in this ice hole, just through that hole that you just saw, and I looekd up under the underside of the ice, and I was dizzy; I toguhht I had vertigo. I got very nervous — no rope, no safety line, the whole world is moving around me — and I thought, "I'm in tlobrue." But what happened is that the entire underside was full of these billions of amphipods and cppoedos moving around and feeding on the underside of the ice, giving brtih and living out their ernite life cycle. This is the foundation of the whole food caihn in the Arctic, right here. And when you have low productivity in this, in ice, the productivity in copepods go down.

Open Cloze


I'm going to show you pictures of beluga whales, _______ whales, and narwhals, and polar bears, and leopard seals today, but this picture right here means more to me than any other I've ever made. I dropped down in this ice hole, just through that hole that you just saw, and I ______ up under the underside of the ice, and I was dizzy; I _______ I had vertigo. I got very nervous — no rope, no safety line, the whole world is moving around me — and I thought, "I'm in _______." But what happened is that the entire underside was full of these billions of amphipods and ________ moving around and feeding on the underside of the ice, giving _____ and living out their ______ life cycle. This is the foundation of the whole food _____ in the Arctic, right here. And when you have low productivity in this, in ice, the productivity in copepods go down.

Solution


  1. trouble
  2. bowhead
  3. entire
  4. thought
  5. looked
  6. birth
  7. copepods
  8. chain

Original Text


I'm going to show you pictures of beluga whales, bowhead whales, and narwhals, and polar bears, and leopard seals today, but this picture right here means more to me than any other I've ever made. I dropped down in this ice hole, just through that hole that you just saw, and I looked up under the underside of the ice, and I was dizzy; I thought I had vertigo. I got very nervous — no rope, no safety line, the whole world is moving around me — and I thought, "I'm in trouble." But what happened is that the entire underside was full of these billions of amphipods and copepods moving around and feeding on the underside of the ice, giving birth and living out their entire life cycle. This is the foundation of the whole food chain in the Arctic, right here. And when you have low productivity in this, in ice, the productivity in copepods go down.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
leopard seals 6
leopard seal 6
national geographic 5
sea ice 4
wandered lonely 3
polar bears 3
dead bears 3
polar bear 2
stupid story 2
harbor seals 2
entire life 2
life cycle 2
food chain 2
dry mouth 2
threat display 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
entire life cycle 2

Important Words


  1. amphipods
  2. arctic
  3. bears
  4. beluga
  5. billions
  6. birth
  7. bowhead
  8. chain
  9. copepods
  10. cycle
  11. dropped
  12. entire
  13. feeding
  14. food
  15. foundation
  16. full
  17. giving
  18. happened
  19. hole
  20. ice
  21. leopard
  22. life
  23. line
  24. living
  25. looked
  26. means
  27. moving
  28. narwhals
  29. nervous
  30. picture
  31. pictures
  32. polar
  33. productivity
  34. rope
  35. safety
  36. seals
  37. show
  38. thought
  39. today
  40. trouble
  41. underside
  42. vertigo
  43. whales
  44. world