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From the Ted Talk by Jeremy Jackson: How we wrecked the ocean


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The really scary things though are the physical, chemical, oerhanapgicoc things that are happening. As the surface of the ocean gets warmer, the water is lhitger when it's warmer, it becomes harder and harder to turn the ocean over. We say it becomes more strongly stratified. The consequence of that is that all those nutrients that fuel the great aecvtnoha feirheiss, of the sardines of California or in Peru or whatever, those slow down and those fisheries collapse. And, at the same time, water from the surface, which is rich in oxygen, doesn't make it down and the ocean truns into a desert.

Open Cloze


The really scary things though are the physical, chemical, _____________ things that are happening. As the surface of the ocean gets warmer, the water is _______ when it's warmer, it becomes harder and harder to turn the ocean over. We say it becomes more strongly stratified. The consequence of that is that all those nutrients that fuel the great _________ _________, of the sardines of California or in Peru or whatever, those slow down and those fisheries collapse. And, at the same time, water from the surface, which is rich in oxygen, doesn't make it down and the ocean _____ into a desert.

Solution


  1. oceanographic
  2. fisheries
  3. lighter
  4. turns
  5. anchoveta

Original Text


The really scary things though are the physical, chemical, oceanographic things that are happening. As the surface of the ocean gets warmer, the water is lighter when it's warmer, it becomes harder and harder to turn the ocean over. We say it becomes more strongly stratified. The consequence of that is that all those nutrients that fuel the great anchoveta fisheries, of the sardines of California or in Peru or whatever, those slow down and those fisheries collapse. And, at the same time, water from the surface, which is rich in oxygen, doesn't make it down and the ocean turns into a desert.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
coral reefs 6
climate change 6
trophy fish 3
coral reef 2
biological pollution 2
northwestern mediterranean 2
entire northwestern 2
jellyfish fishery 2
northwest passage 2
north america 2
vastly greater 2



Important Words


  1. anchoveta
  2. california
  3. chemical
  4. collapse
  5. consequence
  6. desert
  7. fisheries
  8. fuel
  9. great
  10. happening
  11. harder
  12. lighter
  13. nutrients
  14. ocean
  15. oceanographic
  16. oxygen
  17. peru
  18. physical
  19. rich
  20. sardines
  21. scary
  22. slow
  23. stratified
  24. strongly
  25. surface
  26. time
  27. turn
  28. turns
  29. warmer
  30. water