TedTest

From the Ted Talk by Kate Stafford: How human noise affects ocean habitats

Unscramble the Blue Letters

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To me, the Arctic really embodies this disconnect between what we see on the surface and what's going on underwater. You can look out across the ice — all white and blue and cold — and see nothing. But if you could hear underwater, the sounds you would hear would at first amaze and then delight you. And while your eyes are seeing nothing for kemiretlos but ice, your ears are telling you that out there are boawhed and beluga whales, walrus and bearded seals. The ice, too, makes sounds. It screeches and cracks and pops and groans, as it collides and rubs when temperature or currents or winds change. And under 100 pecenrt sea ice in the dead of winter, bowhead whales are singing.

Open Cloze

Take, for an example, the Arctic. It's __________ a vast, ____________ _____, sometimes described as a ______, because it is so cold and so remote and ice-covered for much of the year. And despite this, there is no place on Earth that I would rather be than the Arctic, especially as days lengthen and ______ comes.

To me, the Arctic really embodies this disconnect between what we see on the surface and what's going on underwater. You can look out across the ice — all white and blue and cold — and see nothing. But if you could hear underwater, the sounds you would hear would at first amaze and then delight you. And while your eyes are seeing nothing for __________ but ice, your ears are telling you that out there are _______ and beluga whales, walrus and bearded seals. The ice, too, makes sounds. It screeches and cracks and pops and groans, as it collides and rubs when temperature or currents or winds change. And under 100 _______ sea ice in the dead of winter, bowhead whales are singing.

Solution

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bowhead
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desert
considered

Original Text

Take, for an example, the Arctic. It's considered a vast, inhospitable place, sometimes described as a desert, because it is so cold and so remote and ice-covered for much of the year. And despite this, there is no place on Earth that I would rather be than the Arctic, especially as days lengthen and spring comes.

To me, the Arctic really embodies this disconnect between what we see on the surface and what's going on underwater. You can look out across the ice — all white and blue and cold — and see nothing. But if you could hear underwater, the sounds you would hear would at first amaze and then delight you. And while your eyes are seeing nothing for kilometers but ice, your ears are telling you that out there are bowhead and beluga whales, walrus and bearded seals. The ice, too, makes sounds. It screeches and cracks and pops and groans, as it collides and rubs when temperature or currents or winds change. And under 100 percent sea ice in the dead of winter, bowhead whales are singing.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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seasonal sea	5
arctic marine	4
open water	4
underwater soundscape	3
ambient noise	3
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subarctic species	3
jacques cousteau	2
underwater world	2
climate change	2

ngrams of length 3

collocation	frequency
arctic marine mammals	4
ambient noise levels	2
seasonal sea ice	2

Important Words

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