full transcript

From the Ted Talk by Frans Lanting: The story of life in photographs

Unscramble the Blue Letters


But this planet is different — it's roiling inside. And where that energy theuocs water, something new emerges: life. It arises around crckas in the Earth. Mud and minerals become substrate; there are bacteria. Learn to multiply, thickening in places ... Growing living structures under an ailen sky ... Stromatolites were the first to exhale oegyxn. And they changed the arsmpoethe. A breath that's fossilized now as iron.

Meteorites delivered chemistry, and perhaps membranes, too. Life needs a membrane to contain itself so it can replicate and mutate. These are diatoms, single-celled phytoplankton with skeletons of silicon ... crciiut boards of the future. Shallow seas nurtured life early on, and that's where it morphed into more complex fmors. It grew as light and oxygen iesrcaend. Life hraneded and became defensive. It learned to move and began to see. The first eyes grew on trtiiboels. Vision was refined in horseshoe cbras, among the first to leave the sea. They still do what they've done for ages, their enemies long gone.

Open Cloze


But this planet is different — it's roiling inside. And where that energy _______ water, something new emerges: life. It arises around ______ in the Earth. Mud and minerals become substrate; there are bacteria. Learn to multiply, thickening in places ... Growing living structures under an _____ sky ... Stromatolites were the first to exhale ______. And they changed the __________. A breath that's fossilized now as iron.

Meteorites delivered chemistry, and perhaps membranes, too. Life needs a membrane to contain itself so it can replicate and mutate. These are diatoms, single-celled phytoplankton with skeletons of silicon ... _______ boards of the future. Shallow seas nurtured life early on, and that's where it morphed into more complex _____. It grew as light and oxygen _________. Life ________ and became defensive. It learned to move and began to see. The first eyes grew on __________. Vision was refined in horseshoe _____, among the first to leave the sea. They still do what they've done for ages, their enemies long gone.

Solution


  1. circuit
  2. touches
  3. cracks
  4. increased
  5. oxygen
  6. crabs
  7. alien
  8. atmosphere
  9. forms
  10. trilobites
  11. hardened

Original Text


But this planet is different — it's roiling inside. And where that energy touches water, something new emerges: life. It arises around cracks in the Earth. Mud and minerals become substrate; there are bacteria. Learn to multiply, thickening in places ... Growing living structures under an alien sky ... Stromatolites were the first to exhale oxygen. And they changed the atmosphere. A breath that's fossilized now as iron.

Meteorites delivered chemistry, and perhaps membranes, too. Life needs a membrane to contain itself so it can replicate and mutate. These are diatoms, single-celled phytoplankton with skeletons of silicon ... circuit boards of the future. Shallow seas nurtured life early on, and that's where it morphed into more complex forms. It grew as light and oxygen increased. Life hardened and became defensive. It learned to move and began to see. The first eyes grew on trilobites. Vision was refined in horseshoe crabs, among the first to leave the sea. They still do what they've done for ages, their enemies long gone.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
life turned 2


Important Words


  1. ages
  2. alien
  3. arises
  4. atmosphere
  5. bacteria
  6. began
  7. boards
  8. breath
  9. changed
  10. chemistry
  11. circuit
  12. complex
  13. crabs
  14. cracks
  15. defensive
  16. delivered
  17. diatoms
  18. early
  19. earth
  20. enemies
  21. energy
  22. exhale
  23. eyes
  24. forms
  25. fossilized
  26. future
  27. grew
  28. growing
  29. hardened
  30. horseshoe
  31. increased
  32. iron
  33. learn
  34. learned
  35. leave
  36. life
  37. light
  38. living
  39. long
  40. membrane
  41. membranes
  42. meteorites
  43. minerals
  44. morphed
  45. move
  46. mud
  47. multiply
  48. mutate
  49. nurtured
  50. oxygen
  51. phytoplankton
  52. places
  53. planet
  54. refined
  55. replicate
  56. roiling
  57. sea
  58. seas
  59. shallow
  60. silicon
  61. skeletons
  62. sky
  63. stromatolites
  64. structures
  65. thickening
  66. touches
  67. trilobites
  68. vision
  69. water