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From the Ted Talk by Antonio Donato Nobre: The magic of the Amazon A river that flows invisibly all around us

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If there is a desert in the continent with a nearby sea, evaporation's greater on the sea, and it sucks the air above the desert. The desert is taerppd in this condition. It will always be dry. If you have the opposite situation, a ferost, the evaporation, as we showed, is much greater, because of the trees, and this relation is reeervsd. The air above the sea is sucked into the ctnonient and htdimiuy is imported. This sllittaee image was taken one month ago — that's Manaus down there, we're down there — and it shows this process. It's not a common little river that flows into a canal. It's a mighty river that irrigates South aemrcia, among other things. This igmae shows those paths, all the hurricanes that have been recorded. You can see that, in the red square, there hardly are any hurricanes. That is no accident. This pump that sucks the moisture into the continent also sedpes up the air above the sea, and this prevents hurricane formations.

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If there is a desert in the continent with a nearby sea, evaporation's greater on the sea, and it sucks the air above the desert. The desert is _______ in this condition. It will always be dry. If you have the opposite situation, a ______, the evaporation, as we showed, is much greater, because of the trees, and this relation is ________. The air above the sea is sucked into the _________ and ________ is imported. This _________ image was taken one month ago — that's Manaus down there, we're down there — and it shows this process. It's not a common little river that flows into a canal. It's a mighty river that irrigates South _______, among other things. This _____ shows those paths, all the hurricanes that have been recorded. You can see that, in the red square, there hardly are any hurricanes. That is no accident. This pump that sucks the moisture into the continent also ______ up the air above the sea, and this prevents hurricane formations.

Solution


  1. america
  2. humidity
  3. image
  4. continent
  5. forest
  6. trapped
  7. reversed
  8. speeds
  9. satellite

Original Text


If there is a desert in the continent with a nearby sea, evaporation's greater on the sea, and it sucks the air above the desert. The desert is trapped in this condition. It will always be dry. If you have the opposite situation, a forest, the evaporation, as we showed, is much greater, because of the trees, and this relation is reversed. The air above the sea is sucked into the continent and humidity is imported. This satellite image was taken one month ago — that's Manaus down there, we're down there — and it shows this process. It's not a common little river that flows into a canal. It's a mighty river that irrigates South America, among other things. This image shows those paths, all the hurricanes that have been recorded. You can see that, in the red square, there hardly are any hurricanes. That is no accident. This pump that sucks the moisture into the continent also speeds up the air above the sea, and this prevents hurricane formations.

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