Activity of text interpretation, aimed at students in the fifth year of elementary school, about the temperature of the sun. What temperature can the sun reach? Let's find out? So, read the explanatory text carefully! Then answer the various interpretative questions proposed!
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There are several temperature scales in science. One, which we use a lot in everyday life, is called the centigrade scale (measured in one hundred units) or Celsius, after the Swedish scientist Anders Celsius, who helped create it in the 18th century.
On the Celsius scale, we call the temperature of ice water zero degrees and the temperature of boiling water one hundred degrees. On this scale, for example, our body temperature is almost 37 degrees. So, temperature is a scientific way of talking about the hotness or coldness of any body, including the Sun and all other stars.
Stars are colored and we measure their temperature by their color. We then use a color thermometer. Our star, the Sun, is yellow, as we well know. There are also orange, green and blue stars. On a very dark night, we can see the colors of the sky!
For example, have you ever noticed that the flame of a candle is reddish and the flame of a gas stove is bluish? They also have different temperatures. The candle flame has a lower temperature than the blue stove flame. So, too, with the stars. A bluish star is hotter than a yellowish or reddish star.
The temperature of the Sun, a yellow star, is almost 6,000 degrees Celsius! But beware: the colored part of the stars is the part that we can see in the sky. The inside is thousands of times hotter, but we can't see it.
In conclusion: if the Sun were smaller and cooler, we would see it reddish; if it were bigger and hotter, we would see it bluish!
Domingos Soares. Available in:
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Question 1 - By reading the title, it can be said that the text performs the function of:
( ) explain something.
( ) make an alert.
( ) tell a story.
Question 2 - According to the text, Swedish scientist Anders Celsius helped to create, in the 18th century, a temperature scale in science. What scale does the text refer to?
Question 3 - Identify the star that, according to the text, has the highest temperature:
( ) the bluish star.
( ) the yellowish star.
( ) the reddish star.
Question 4 – In the fragment “The flame of the candle has a lower temperature than the blue flame of the stove.”, the author of the text:
( ) makes a comparison.
( ) expresses a deduction.
( ) presents a conclusion.
Question 5 - In the passage "Thus it also happens with the stars.”, the underlined term indicates:
( ) place.
( ) mode.
( ) time.
Question 6 – In “The temperature of the Sun, a yellow star, is almost 6,000 degrees Celsius!”, the author used the exclamation point to express, in relation to the fact, the feeling of:
( ) relief.
( ) happiness.
( ) admiration.
Question 7 – In the excerpt "The inside is thousands of times hotter, but we can't see it.”, the underlined word could be replaced by:
( ) "because".
( ) "although".
( ) "therefore".
Question 8 – In the segment “[…] if he were bigger and hotter, we O we would see bluish!”, the highlighted words:
( ) retake the Sun.
( ) announce the Sun.
( ) characterize the Sun.
Per Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
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