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From the Ted Talk by Ludmila Rattis: How poop turns into forests

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So let me throw you some questions. How poreufwl is the tapirs’ poop? How far can they travel? How charming do my friends, totally unconcerned with social conventions, need to be in oedrr to reevrt the tipping point we are possibly about to reach? My colleagues and I at the Woodwell Climate Research Center and at the ititnstuo de psuseiqa Ambiental da Amazônia are trying to answer those questions, but we already know some of the answers. We know that the recelsiine of those ecosystems is on the diversity of plants and animals living there. Our future is intertwined with the future of those animals, and it depends on how good a job we do trying to potrcet them. And people, I’m not afraid to say: our ftruue lies in poop.

Open Cloze


So let me throw you some questions. How ________ is the tapirs’ poop? How far can they travel? How charming do my friends, totally unconcerned with social conventions, need to be in _____ to ______ the tipping point we are possibly about to reach? My colleagues and I at the Woodwell Climate Research Center and at the _________ de ________ Ambiental da Amazônia are trying to answer those questions, but we already know some of the answers. We know that the __________ of those ecosystems is on the diversity of plants and animals living there. Our future is intertwined with the future of those animals, and it depends on how good a job we do trying to _______ them. And people, I’m not afraid to say: our ______ lies in poop.

Solution


  1. resilience
  2. future
  3. protect
  4. order
  5. pesquisa
  6. revert
  7. instituto
  8. powerful

Original Text


So let me throw you some questions. How powerful is the tapirs’ poop? How far can they travel? How charming do my friends, totally unconcerned with social conventions, need to be in order to revert the tipping point we are possibly about to reach? My colleagues and I at the Woodwell Climate Research Center and at the Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental da Amazônia are trying to answer those questions, but we already know some of the answers. We know that the resilience of those ecosystems is on the diversity of plants and animals living there. Our future is intertwined with the future of those animals, and it depends on how good a job we do trying to protect them. And people, I’m not afraid to say: our future lies in poop.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
animal waste 2
landscape connectivity 2
tapirs poop 2
dung beetles 2
forest patches 2


Important Words


  1. afraid
  2. amazônia
  3. ambiental
  4. animals
  5. answer
  6. answers
  7. center
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  9. climate
  10. colleagues
  11. conventions
  12. da
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  14. depends
  15. diversity
  16. ecosystems
  17. friends
  18. future
  19. good
  20. instituto
  21. intertwined
  22. job
  23. lies
  24. living
  25. order
  26. people
  27. pesquisa
  28. plants
  29. point
  30. poop
  31. possibly
  32. powerful
  33. protect
  34. questions
  35. reach
  36. research
  37. resilience
  38. revert
  39. social
  40. throw
  41. tipping
  42. totally
  43. travel
  44. unconcerned
  45. woodwell