New Map Shows Valleys Hidden Under Greenland Ice
In the app: the whole story at your level, listening, the quiz and the word cards.
The same story at six levels
How the first sentence reads at every level, from A1 to C2.
- A1
Scientists have a new map.
- A2
Scientists made a detailed map of the rock.
- B1
Scientists have created a highly detailed map of the rock under the Greenland Ice Sheet.
- B2
Scientists have created a highly detailed map of the bedrock hidden beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet.
- C1
Scientists have created a highly detailed map of the bedrock hidden beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet by using a newly developed technique.
- C2
Beneath the vast expanse of the Greenland Ice Sheet lies a hidden landscape.
Key words
Words from the B1 text, with their meaning.
- detailed
- giving a lot of information with many facts
- surface
- the outside or top layer of something
- inland
- towards the middle of a country, away from the coast
- indicate
- to show, point, or make clear in another way
- tectonic
- relating to the structure of the surface of the earth and the way it is formed
- decade
- a period of ten years
Rewritten with AI from facts reported by NASA Earth Observatory. Read the original for the full report.