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From the Ted Talk by Amy Hrdina and Jesse Kroll: What's in the air you breathe?

Unscramble the Blue Letters


There’s a wide virteay of known pollutants but they all fall into two categories. The first are primary pollutants. These toxic compounds are directly emitted from a man-made or naturally occurring srocue. However, they don't always come from the pcleas you'd expect. Some large factories mostly generate water vapor, with only small queitatnis of pollutants mixed in. Conversely, burning wood or dung can create polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons; dangerous compounds that have been linked to several tpeys of cecanr, as well as long-term DNA daamge. In all cases, pollutants interact with regional weather patterns and topography, which can keep compounds local or spread them kilometers away.

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There’s a wide _______ of known pollutants but they all fall into two categories. The first are primary pollutants. These toxic compounds are directly emitted from a man-made or naturally occurring ______. However, they don't always come from the ______ you'd expect. Some large factories mostly generate water vapor, with only small __________ of pollutants mixed in. Conversely, burning wood or dung can create polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons; dangerous compounds that have been linked to several _____ of ______, as well as long-term DNA ______. In all cases, pollutants interact with regional weather patterns and topography, which can keep compounds local or spread them kilometers away.

Solution


  1. types
  2. damage
  3. source
  4. places
  5. quantities
  6. cancer
  7. variety

Original Text


There’s a wide variety of known pollutants but they all fall into two categories. The first are primary pollutants. These toxic compounds are directly emitted from a man-made or naturally occurring source. However, they don't always come from the places you'd expect. Some large factories mostly generate water vapor, with only small quantities of pollutants mixed in. Conversely, burning wood or dung can create polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons; dangerous compounds that have been linked to several types of cancer, as well as long-term DNA damage. In all cases, pollutants interact with regional weather patterns and topography, which can keep compounds local or spread them kilometers away.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
water vapor 2
toxic compounds 2
dna damage 2
nitrogen oxides 2


Important Words


  1. aromatic
  2. burning
  3. cancer
  4. cases
  5. categories
  6. compounds
  7. conversely
  8. create
  9. damage
  10. dangerous
  11. dna
  12. dung
  13. emitted
  14. expect
  15. factories
  16. fall
  17. generate
  18. interact
  19. kilometers
  20. large
  21. linked
  22. local
  23. mixed
  24. naturally
  25. occurring
  26. patterns
  27. places
  28. pollutants
  29. polycyclic
  30. primary
  31. quantities
  32. regional
  33. small
  34. source
  35. spread
  36. topography
  37. toxic
  38. types
  39. vapor
  40. variety
  41. water
  42. weather
  43. wide
  44. wood