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From the Ted Talk by Richard Preston: The mysterious lives of giant trees
Unscramble the Blue Letters
You can see the range of the Coast Redwoods. It's here, in red. The largest iuildnaivds of this species, the dhduganrotes of their kind, live just on the north coast of California, where the rain is really intense. In recent hrisitoc tiems, about 96 percent of the Coast Redwood forest was cut down, especially in a sieres of bursts of intense liquidation logging, clear-cutting that took pclae in the 1970s through the early 1990s. Even so, about four percent of the primeval reowodd rainforest remains intact, wild and now protected — entirely protected — in a chain of small parks strung out like pearls along the north coast of California, including Redwood nanoaitl Park. But criusluoy, Redwood rainforests, the fragments that we have left, to this day remain under-explored. Redwood rainforest is incredibly dfiiufclt to move through, and even today, individual trees are being doevsreicd that have never been seen before, including, in the summer of 2006, Hyperion, the world's tallest tree.
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You can see the range of the Coast Redwoods. It's here, in red. The largest ___________ of this species, the ____________ of their kind, live just on the north coast of California, where the rain is really intense. In recent ________ _____, about 96 percent of the Coast Redwood forest was cut down, especially in a ______ of bursts of intense liquidation logging, clear-cutting that took _____ in the 1970s through the early 1990s. Even so, about four percent of the primeval _______ rainforest remains intact, wild and now protected — entirely protected — in a chain of small parks strung out like pearls along the north coast of California, including Redwood ________ Park. But _________, Redwood rainforests, the fragments that we have left, to this day remain under-explored. Redwood rainforest is incredibly _________ to move through, and even today, individual trees are being __________ that have never been seen before, including, in the summer of 2006, Hyperion, the world's tallest tree.
Solution
- place
- series
- historic
- redwood
- individuals
- difficult
- times
- discovered
- national
- curiously
- dreadnoughts
Original Text
You can see the range of the Coast Redwoods. It's here, in red. The largest individuals of this species, the dreadnoughts of their kind, live just on the north coast of California, where the rain is really intense. In recent historic times, about 96 percent of the Coast Redwood forest was cut down, especially in a series of bursts of intense liquidation logging, clear-cutting that took place in the 1970s through the early 1990s. Even so, about four percent of the primeval Redwood rainforest remains intact, wild and now protected — entirely protected — in a chain of small parks strung out like pearls along the north coast of California, including Redwood National Park. But curiously, Redwood rainforests, the fragments that we have left, to this day remain under-explored. Redwood rainforest is incredibly difficult to move through, and even today, individual trees are being discovered that have never been seen before, including, in the summer of 2006, Hyperion, the world's tallest tree.
Frequently Occurring Word Combinations
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| collocation |
frequency |
| redwood forest |
4 |
| forest canopy |
4 |
| eastern hemlock |
4 |
| north coast |
3 |
| living organism |
3 |
| human time |
3 |
| marie antoine |
3 |
| flying buttress |
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| coast redwood |
2 |
| sequoia sempervirens |
2 |
| oldest living |
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| coast redwoods |
2 |
| individual trees |
2 |
| redwood rainforest |
2 |
| national park |
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| tallest tree |
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| big redwood |
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| redwood time |
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| steve sillett |
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| redwood trees |
2 |
| climbing trees |
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| tree boat |
2 |
| lose sight |
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| huckleberry bushes |
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| redwoods grow |
2 |
| extends upward |
2 |
| trunks springing |
2 |
| canopy soil |
2 |
| hemlock forest |
2 |
| great smoky |
2 |
| smoky mountains |
2 |
| mountains national |
2 |
ngrams of length 3
| collocation |
frequency |
| redwood forest canopy |
3 |
| great smoky mountains |
2 |
| smoky mountains national |
2 |
Important Words
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