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From the Ted Talk by Mary Ellen Hannibal: How you can help save the monarch butterfly -- and the planet

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So this is a map of the monarch butterfly migration. The monarch does this azimnag thing, and over the course of a year, it goes over the entirety of North America. It does this in four or five giranoneets. The first generations only live a couple of weeks. They mate, they lay eggs and they die. The next geoitrnaen emerges as butterflies and takes the next leg of the journey. Nobody knows how they do it. By the time the fifth generation comes back around — and that one lives longer, they oeevirtwnr in Mexico and California — by the time it gets there, those biufltertes are going back to where their aectsrons came from, but they've never been there before, and nobody that they're immediately related to has been there before either. We don't know how they do it.

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So this is a map of the monarch butterfly migration. The monarch does this _______ thing, and over the course of a year, it goes over the entirety of North America. It does this in four or five ___________. The first generations only live a couple of weeks. They mate, they lay eggs and they die. The next __________ emerges as butterflies and takes the next leg of the journey. Nobody knows how they do it. By the time the fifth generation comes back around — and that one lives longer, they __________ in Mexico and California — by the time it gets there, those ___________ are going back to where their _________ came from, but they've never been there before, and nobody that they're immediately related to has been there before either. We don't know how they do it.

Solution


  1. generation
  2. generations
  3. amazing
  4. overwinter
  5. butterflies
  6. ancestors

Original Text


So this is a map of the monarch butterfly migration. The monarch does this amazing thing, and over the course of a year, it goes over the entirety of North America. It does this in four or five generations. The first generations only live a couple of weeks. They mate, they lay eggs and they die. The next generation emerges as butterflies and takes the next leg of the journey. Nobody knows how they do it. By the time the fifth generation comes back around — and that one lives longer, they overwinter in Mexico and California — by the time it gets there, those butterflies are going back to where their ancestors came from, but they've never been there before, and nobody that they're immediately related to has been there before either. We don't know how they do it.

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Important Words


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