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From the Ted Talk by Eric Sanderson: New York -- before the City

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And 55 is a lot. On a per-area basis, mhaaatntn had more ecological communities per acre than Yosemite does, than Yellowstone, than alobmsei. It was really an extraordinary landscape that was capable of supporting an extraordinary biodiversity.

So, Act II: A Home Reconstructed. So, we studied the fish and the fogrs and the birds and the bees, the 85 different kinds of fish that were on Manhattan, the Heath hens, the speiecs that aren't there anymore, the bveares on all the streams, the black breas, and the Native Americans, to study how they used and thought about their landscape. We wanted to try and map these. And to do that what we did was we mapped their habitat needs.

Open Cloze


And 55 is a lot. On a per-area basis, _________ had more ecological communities per acre than Yosemite does, than Yellowstone, than ________. It was really an extraordinary landscape that was capable of supporting an extraordinary biodiversity.

So, Act II: A Home Reconstructed. So, we studied the fish and the _____ and the birds and the bees, the 85 different kinds of fish that were on Manhattan, the Heath hens, the _______ that aren't there anymore, the _______ on all the streams, the black _____, and the Native Americans, to study how they used and thought about their landscape. We wanted to try and map these. And to do that what we did was we mapped their habitat needs.

Solution


  1. species
  2. manhattan
  3. beavers
  4. amboseli
  5. frogs
  6. bears

Original Text


And 55 is a lot. On a per-area basis, Manhattan had more ecological communities per acre than Yosemite does, than Yellowstone, than Amboseli. It was really an extraordinary landscape that was capable of supporting an extraordinary biodiversity.

So, Act II: A Home Reconstructed. So, we studied the fish and the frogs and the birds and the bees, the 85 different kinds of fish that were on Manhattan, the Heath hens, the species that aren't there anymore, the beavers on all the streams, the black bears, and the Native Americans, to study how they used and thought about their landscape. We wanted to try and map these. And to do that what we did was we mapped their habitat needs.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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Important Words


  1. acre
  2. act
  3. amboseli
  4. americans
  5. anymore
  6. basis
  7. bears
  8. beavers
  9. bees
  10. biodiversity
  11. birds
  12. black
  13. capable
  14. communities
  15. ecological
  16. extraordinary
  17. fish
  18. frogs
  19. habitat
  20. heath
  21. hens
  22. home
  23. kinds
  24. landscape
  25. lot
  26. manhattan
  27. map
  28. mapped
  29. native
  30. reconstructed
  31. species
  32. streams
  33. studied
  34. study
  35. supporting
  36. thought
  37. wanted
  38. yellowstone
  39. yosemite