Activity of text interpretation, aimed at students in the sixth year of elementary school, about vegetarian vampires in the seas. Have you ever heard of these marine “vampires”? No? Are you curious to meet them? So, read the text very carefully! Then answer the various interpretative questions proposed!
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Do you know polyplacophores or chitons? They are marine molluscs that have eight calcareous plates in the dorsal region. They are cousins of octopus, squid and snails. What sets them apart from their better-known relatives is the fact that they have neither eyes nor tentacles. They are, for many, very strange animals, with characteristics that resemble the fantastic vampires!
Yes, we know vampires don't exist. But chitons are real! And do you know why they are compared to the imaginary beings of the night? It's just that, like vampires, they have a nocturnal habit. During the day, they hide under the rocky ground, securing themselves with the help of their muscular foot.
The chitons menu does not include fresh blood, but whatever is stuck to the ground. Their favorite food is microalgae, which they scrape with the help of a radula, a tongue full of little teeth – here's another feature that earns them the nickname vegetarian vampires of the seas.
Environmental pollution, such as the dumping of garbage on the beach and sewage leaking into the sea, increase the chances that animals little known from the Brazilian coast, such as chitons, may be extinct before there is better information about they.
Less for our curiosity and more for the balance of life on our planet, we humans need to review our habits. After all, this space is no more ours than that of other species. Is not it.
Mariana Tupiniquim. “Ciência Hoje das Crianças” magazine. Edition 281. Available in: .
Question 1 - In the passage “They are marine molluscs that have eight limestone plates on the dorsal region.”, the author of the text refers to:
a) to octopuses.
b) to the squid.
c) to snails.
d) to polyplacophores or chitons.
Question 2 - Point out a characteristic that, according to the text, associates chitons with vampires:
a) the nocturnal habit.
b) the absence of eyes.
c) the type of food.
d) the absence of tentacles.
Question 3 - In the period “They are, for many, very strange animals, with characteristics that resemble fantastic vampires!”, the word “well” was used to:
a) determine.
b) intensify.
c) specify.
d) complementary.
Question 4 – In the sentence "Daytime, hide under the rocky ground, fixing themselves with the help of the muscular foot they have.”, the highlighted expression expresses a circumstance of:
half.
b) place.
c) mode.
d) time.
Question 5 - Underline, in the fragment below, the part that explains the term "radula":
“[…] the microalgae, which they scrape off with the help of a radula, a tongue full of little teeth […]”
Question 6 – In the section “Environmental pollution, such as the dumping of garbage on the beach and sewage draining into the sea, increase the chances […]”, the word “how”:
a) indicates the causes of environmental pollution.
b) introduces examples of environmental pollution.
c) points out the consequences of environmental pollution.
d) establishes a comparison between types of environmental pollution.
Question 7 – In “Less for our curiosity and more for the balance of life on our planet, we humans need to review our habits.”, the author of the text:
a) quotes a data.
b) exposes an opinion.
c) narrates a situation.
d) raises a hypothesis.
Per Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
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