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From the Ted Talk by Nadia Frontier: Surviving the coldest place on Earth

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As witenr settles in, the sea floor becomes even colder. Waters fall to negative 1.8 degrees Celsius. On the sufarce, the thin icy csurt tnikhecs into a layer claeld nilas, and young sea ice starts forming ridges that block out the sun. The ocean begins to mirror the still landscape above it. Antarctic sea cucumbers and urchins go into dormancy for mtnohs, and their metabolic rates fall to the slowest on Earth. Antarctic lmeipts continue feeding, but at such a gadarul pace that they're largely still surviving on energy reserves from the summer. Tiny crustaceans survive off the teacrs of algae growing on their home’s icy ceiling, raising their young in these esaxnpive winter nurseries.

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As ______ settles in, the sea floor becomes even colder. Waters fall to negative 1.8 degrees Celsius. On the _______, the thin icy _____ ________ into a layer ______ nilas, and young sea ice starts forming ridges that block out the sun. The ocean begins to mirror the still landscape above it. Antarctic sea cucumbers and urchins go into dormancy for ______, and their metabolic rates fall to the slowest on Earth. Antarctic _______ continue feeding, but at such a _______ pace that they're largely still surviving on energy reserves from the summer. Tiny crustaceans survive off the ______ of algae growing on their home’s icy ceiling, raising their young in these _________ winter nurseries.

Solution


  1. traces
  2. surface
  3. called
  4. gradual
  5. thickens
  6. crust
  7. winter
  8. limpets
  9. months
  10. expansive

Original Text


As winter settles in, the sea floor becomes even colder. Waters fall to negative 1.8 degrees Celsius. On the surface, the thin icy crust thickens into a layer called nilas, and young sea ice starts forming ridges that block out the sun. The ocean begins to mirror the still landscape above it. Antarctic sea cucumbers and urchins go into dormancy for months, and their metabolic rates fall to the slowest on Earth. Antarctic limpets continue feeding, but at such a gradual pace that they're largely still surviving on energy reserves from the summer. Tiny crustaceans survive off the traces of algae growing on their home’s icy ceiling, raising their young in these expansive winter nurseries.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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Important Words


  1. algae
  2. antarctic
  3. begins
  4. block
  5. called
  6. ceiling
  7. celsius
  8. colder
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  10. crust
  11. crustaceans
  12. cucumbers
  13. degrees
  14. dormancy
  15. earth
  16. energy
  17. expansive
  18. fall
  19. feeding
  20. floor
  21. forming
  22. gradual
  23. growing
  24. ice
  25. icy
  26. landscape
  27. largely
  28. layer
  29. limpets
  30. metabolic
  31. mirror
  32. months
  33. negative
  34. nilas
  35. nurseries
  36. ocean
  37. pace
  38. raising
  39. rates
  40. reserves
  41. ridges
  42. sea
  43. settles
  44. slowest
  45. starts
  46. summer
  47. sun
  48. surface
  49. survive
  50. surviving
  51. thickens
  52. thin
  53. tiny
  54. traces
  55. urchins
  56. waters
  57. winter
  58. young