Activity of text interpretation, aimed at students in the sixth year of elementary school, about ants and aphids.Did you know that ants are shepherds of aphids? Curious, isn't it? Are we going to learn more about this animal relationship? So, carefully read the text below! Then answer the various interpretative questions proposed!
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You may have heard of cattle herders, who work domesticating and feeding the animals. Now, herding ants are new, isn't it?! To ensure a very curious food, they take care of aphids, tiny and very fragile insects.
Don't you think ants are nice. In nature, animals act by instinct. So it is between ants and aphids: they instinctively provide them with food in exchange for protection.
With the ants around, taking care of predators – like the ladybugs, which hunt and eat aphids –, they can spend as much time as they need piercing the stalks of rose bushes, for example, to suck the sap. Want to know what food aphids offer ants for the protection they receive? Poo!
Really! Aphid poop is very nutritious for ants. As they need a lot of sugar to survive and form the essential proteins for their growth, aphids eat all the time and eliminate the excess of what they eat. To enjoy the feast, the ants touch the aphids that excrete their feces on top of their antennae.
For aphids, ants couldn't be better protectors. As they live in society, they are very organized. In addition to protecting them from predators, when they realize that the plant they are in has no more sap, they carry them to suck other limes.
Ants, like the good shepherds they are, often risk their own lives for the "herd". When an aphid predator is much larger, they try to at least protect the chicks by taking them, in case of very risky situations, into their own colonies. As nannies, they take care of the puppies, which grow, return to the plants and guarantee more poop. Urgh!
Jaqueline Gonçalves Soares.
“Ciência Hoje das Crianças” magazine. Edition 268.
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Question 1 - In "small and very fragile insects", the author of the text characterizes:
( ) the aphids.
( ) the ants.
( ) the ladybugs.
Question 2 - In the segment “In nature, animals act by instinct.”, the highlighted expression expresses a circumstance of:
( ) place.
( ) mode.
( ) time.
Question 3 - Identify the passage in which the author explains why ants feed on aphid poop:
( ) “[…] what food do aphids offer ants for the protection they receive? Poo!"
( ) “Aphid poop is very nutritious for ants.”
( ) “[…] the ants touch the aphids that excrete their feces on top of their antennae.”
Question 4 - According to the text, “aphids eat all the time and eliminate the excess of what they eat”. Because?
A:
Question 5 - In the period "As they live in society, they are very organized.", the word "How" was used to:
( ) point out a cause.
( ) indicate an example.
( ) establish a comparison.
Question 6 – In the passage “In addition to protecting them from predators […]”, the pronoun “los” refers to:
( ) to aphids.
( ) to predators.
( ) to other stems.
Question 7 – The term "poop" is an example of language:
( ) informal.
( ) regional.
( ) scientific.
Question 8 – In "Urgh!", the author of the text expresses:
( ) disgusted.
( ) relief.
( ) surprise.
By Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
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