Activity of text interpretation, aimed at seventh year students, about the punk turtle. A beautiful mohawk-cut green hair, light eyes with golden highlights, and two large piercings under the chin. This is how the author starts the text, featuring the punk turtle! Have you ever heard of her? No? So, don't miss this curious animal by reading the text! Then answer the various interpretative questions proposed!
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Beautiful mohawk-cut green hair, pale eyes with golden highlights, and two large piercings under her chin. More punk impossible! But it's not just radical looks that make the Mary River Turtle (Mary River) so different. In addition to a huge tail, she can also breathe through her butt!
The turtle (elusur macrurus) appears in the first reptile list of the program EDGE of Existence (Limit of Existence), an initiative aimed at the conservation of evolutionarily distinct and globally endangered species. And she is quite different, both morphologically and evolutionarily. It is the only species in its genus and began to diverge from all other species 40 million years ago. Just for comparison, we split from chimpanzees and bonobos less than 10 million years ago.
The punk turtle has specialized glands in its reproductive organs, allowing it to breathe through its butt. So, it can stay up to 72 hours underwater. During this period, he ends up accumulating algae on the top of his head, which gives him that punk hair.
The punk turtle lives in the shallow, fast, well-oxygenated stretches of the river that gives it its name, in the state of Queensland, Australia, but builds its nests on land. It takes a long time to reach sexual maturity and starts to reproduce only after 25 years. Males are around 42 cm, while females are 34 cm. Adult males have a very long tail, reaching 70% of the carapace's length.
Because of their tiny hatching size, Mary River turtle hatchlings were hunted and sold as pets during the 1960s and 1970s. Buyers were tricked into thinking the animals were adults and would maintain their size. When they grew up, they were discarded in nature and ended up not surviving.
The number of turtles has rapidly declined and today it figures as threatened on the Red List of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN).
The main threats to the punk turtle are the reduction of water quality, mainly due to chemical pollution, siltation, removal of sand, destruction of riparian forests and overgrazing, damming of water, and destruction of nests and eggs by animals wild.
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Question 1 - The author of the text presents an opinion about the punk turtle in the passage:
a) “[…] two large piercings under the chin.”
b) "More punk impossible!"
c) “In addition to a huge tail […]”
d) “[…] it is quite different, both morphologically and evolutionarily.”
Question 2 - According to the text, the punk turtle “can stay up to 72 hours underwater”. Because?
A.
Question 3 – In the excerpt “As they grew up, they were discarded in nature […]”, the text refers to:
a) to adult males.
b) to Mary River turtle hatchlings.
c) to pets.
d) to adult animals.
Question 4 - In the sentence “[…] but build their nests on earth.”, the term “but” has the meaning of:
a) because
b) therefore
c) for that
d) however
Question 5 - The text presents the cause of the green mane on the punk turtle. Identify it:
A.
Question 6 – In “The number of turtles has declined quickly […]", the underlined word indicates:
a) the way the number of turtles declined.
b) the time that the number of turtles declined.
c) how the number of turtles declined.
d) the intensity with which the number of turtles declined.
Question 7 – At the end of the text, the author presents:
a) the conditions in which the punk turtle lives.
b) the life-threatening factors of the punk turtle.
c) measures to protect the life of the punk turtle.
d) the consequences of the destruction of the punk turtle's habitat.
Per Denyse Lage Fonseca – Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
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