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From the Ted Talk by Emma Bryce: Why do cats have vertical pupils?

Unscramble the Blue Letters


The wlord looks very different from behind the hizloontrlay elongated pupils of many grazing and browsing anmials, like goats. These pupils, situated on either side of the head, let horizontal bands of light in that give the goat a near-360-degree view and provide it with sharp, horizontal images. This helps goats dcteet any disruption to the horizon— alerting them to potential predators— while still enabling them to see ahead and detect obstacles as they make their escape. In fact, goats always keep their pupils agelnid with the horozin, rotating their eyeballs in their sockets as they move their heads up and down.

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The _____ looks very different from behind the ____________ elongated pupils of many grazing and browsing _______, like goats. These pupils, situated on either side of the head, let horizontal bands of light in that give the goat a near-360-degree view and provide it with sharp, horizontal images. This helps goats ______ any disruption to the horizon— alerting them to potential predators— while still enabling them to see ahead and detect obstacles as they make their escape. In fact, goats always keep their pupils _______ with the _______, rotating their eyeballs in their sockets as they move their heads up and down.

Solution


  1. horizontally
  2. world
  3. animals
  4. aligned
  5. horizon
  6. detect

Original Text


The world looks very different from behind the horizontally elongated pupils of many grazing and browsing animals, like goats. These pupils, situated on either side of the head, let horizontal bands of light in that give the goat a near-360-degree view and provide it with sharp, horizontal images. This helps goats detect any disruption to the horizon— alerting them to potential predators— while still enabling them to see ahead and detect obstacles as they make their escape. In fact, goats always keep their pupils aligned with the horizon, rotating their eyeballs in their sockets as they move their heads up and down.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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collocation frequency
elongated pupils 3
vertically elongated 2


Important Words


  1. alerting
  2. aligned
  3. animals
  4. bands
  5. browsing
  6. detect
  7. disruption
  8. elongated
  9. enabling
  10. escape
  11. eyeballs
  12. fact
  13. give
  14. goat
  15. goats
  16. grazing
  17. head
  18. heads
  19. helps
  20. horizon
  21. horizontal
  22. horizontally
  23. images
  24. light
  25. move
  26. obstacles
  27. potential
  28. provide
  29. pupils
  30. rotating
  31. sharp
  32. side
  33. situated
  34. sockets
  35. view
  36. world