activity of text interpretation, aimed at students in the fifth year of elementary school, on the Amazon River. He It is the largest in the world by volume of water.! How about getting to know him better? So, read the text carefully! Then answer the various interpretative questions proposed!
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The Amazon River was discovered in 1500 by Vicente Yañez Pinzón, who named it Mar Dulce. In 1532, Francisco Orellana, the man who made the first descent into the river, changed the name to Amazonas.
It rises in the Andes Mountains, next to the Misti volcano, in southern Peru, 4,000 meters above sea level. This source was only discovered in 1971, and is known as Laguna McIntyre.
Until recently, the Nile was thought to be the longest river in the world by length. However, thanks to satellite monitoring techniques, it is now known that the Amazon is longer, at 7,025 kilometers.
In the Brazilian plain, its width is from 6 to 8 kilometers, while the depth varies from 20 to 200 meters. Near the mouth, in the Atlantic, the depth reaches up to 500 meters.
The Amazon River is the largest in the world by volume of water. In less than half a minute of flow, it could quench the thirst of all the inhabitants of the world.
It dumps 175 million liters of water per second into the Atlantic. This number corresponds to 20% of the combined flow of all rivers on Earth. In one day, the Amazon River pours more water into the Atlantic than the entire flow of the River Thames in England in a year.
8 kilometers from Manaus, the Solimões River meets the Negro River, a tributary of the Amazon River, producing the phenomenon of the Meeting of the Waters. The two large bodies of water do not mix because they have different temperatures.
The Amazon River has 1,100 tributaries.
Marcelo Duarte. “Guide for the Curious”.
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Question 1 – In the passage “It rises in the Andes Mountains, next to the Misti volcano, in southern Peru, at 4,000 meters above sea level.”, the text refers to:
( ) Nilo river.
( ) Tamisa river.
( ) Amazon river.
Question 2 – In the sentence “This source was only discovered in 1971, It is is known as Laguna McIntyre.”, the underlined word expresses:
( ) sum.
( ) opposition.
( ) alternation.
Question 3 – In “However, thanks to satellite monitoring techniques, it is now known that the Amazon is larger, with 7,025 kilometers.”, the highlighted expression introduces a fact, that:
( ) is the cause of another.
( ) is the purpose of another.
( ) is the consequence of another.
Question 4 – The section “On the Brazilian plain, its width is from 6 to 8 kilometers […]” is:
( ) a narration.
( ) a description.
( ) an argument.
Question 5 – In the segment “It dumps 175 million liters of water into the Atlantic per second.”, the underlined part indicates:
( ) place.
( ) mode.
( ) time.
Question 6 – Read back:
“In one day, the Amazon River pours more water into the Atlantic than the entire flow of the River Thames in England in a year.”
In this fragment, the text:
( ) makes a correction.
( ) presents a conclusion.
( ) establishes a comparison.
Question 7 – According to the text, the waters of the Solimões River do not mix with the waters of the Negro River, a tributary of the Amazon River, when they meet. Identify the reason:
By Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Letters and specialist in distance education.
