Activity of text interpretation, aimed at students in the fifth year of elementary school, about extinction. As it is very valuable, the Spix's Macaw was the target of wild animal trafficking and hunting. Will we learn more about this sad reality? To do so, read the text carefully! Then answer the various interpretative questions proposed!
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The environmental organization BirdLife International released a study that reveals that eight species of birds are highly likely to have gone extinct in the wild. Four of these birds are Brazilian: the Spix's Macaw (Cyanopsitta spixii), the northeastern leaf cleaner (
As it is very valuable, the Spix's Macaw was the target of wild animal trafficking and hunting. The destruction of the environment was also one of the causes for its extinction in nature.
As it is now extinct, specimens of the Spix's Macaw can only be found with breeders and the largest breeder and breeder of this species. in the world is located in Rüdersdorf, a small German municipality with just over 15,000 inhabitants and located 26 kilometers from Berlin. There, there are 146 of the approximately 160 Hyacinth macaws that exist in the world.
In partnership with the Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation (ICMBio), the Association for Conservation of Threatened Parrots (ACTP) intends, in 2019, to reintroduce the first blue macaws into their habitat: a caatinga.
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Question 1 - In the excerpt “[…] that is an owl.”, the author refers:
( ) to the northeastern leaf cleaner.
( ) to the northeast climber.
( ) to the caburé-de-pernambuco.
Question 2 - Reread this passage from the text:
“for being very valuable, the Spix's Macaw was the target of wild animal trafficking and hunting.”
The highlighted fact is:
( ) the cause of another.
( ) the purpose of another.
( ) the consequence of another.
Question 3 - Read the following statement:
Wild animal trafficking, hunting and the destruction of the environment are the factors that led to the extinction of the Spix's Macaw in the wild.
Based on reading the text, the above statement is:
( ) false.
( ) true.
( ) partially true.
Question 4 – In the segment “[…] specimens of the Spix's Macaw can be found only with breeders […]”, the underlined term indicates:
( ) restriction.
( ) inclusion.
( ) exclusion.
Question 5 - Below, underline the expression used by the Spix's Macaw:
“[…] the largest breeder and breeder of this species in the world is located in Rüdersdorf […]”
Question 6 – According to the text, where “are 146 of the 160 macaws that exist in the world”?
( ) in Rüdersdorf.
( ) in Berlin.
( ) at the Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation.
Question 7 – In the "[…] reintroduce the first blue macaws into their habitat: the caatinga.”, the underlined element expresses:
( ) denial.
( ) repetition.
( ) removal.
Question 8 – Identify the year the text on extinction was written:
( ) 2018.
( ) 2019.
( ) none of the above.
Per Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
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