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Practice Listening: Highlight Incorrect Words ID: #35034 Long Alaska
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* Click on the words that are different from what you hear
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"What happened was the whole Gulf of Alaska and Prince William Sound just sort of tilted, and so near shore, near Alaska, that region sank. And then out at sea, the sea floor raised up." Susie Bassham, a molecular biologist at the University of Oregon. "And so things that were submarine platforms before suddenly were lifted above sea level, and then silt could come in and build more island." And with more island, came new freshwater ponds. Those newly created bodies of water turned out to be the testbed for a natural evolutionary experiment on a finger-sized fish, called the three-spined stickleback. Saltwater fish went in... freshwater fish came out. "Big silvery well-armored fish entered freshwater ponds. And during the last 50 years they changed their size.

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