Activity of text interpretation, aimed at fifth-year students, about plants that stick together. Mistletoes are plants that only survive if they can take advantage of other vegetables. Let's get to know them better? So, read the explanatory text carefully! Then answer the various interpretative questions proposed!
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Weeds are plants that only survive if they can take advantage of other vegetables. Unlike other species with similar characteristics, such as lianas and vines, which use other plants just as a support, the mistletoes are kind of exploitative or, in the language of the scientists, parasites partial. And what does it mean?
It's the following: even being able to carry out photosynthesis - that is, to produce their own food from the Sunshine – the mistletoes suck water and mineral salts from their hosts, that is, from the others plants. As a result, the host plant is weakened and, depending on the amount of weeds that stick to it, it may even die.
Scientists have cataloged about 1,440 species of mistletoe worldwide. Among them are two groups of plants with a large number of species: the lorantaceae and the viscáceas. Lorantaceae have showy flowers, which are pollinated by hummingbirds and whose fruits feed birds such as bem-te-vis and tanagers. Viscaceous flowers are small and pale, often pollinated by insects. Its fruits are also small and the favorite dish of the gaturamos, multicolored birds that imitate the singing of other birds.
Rodrigo Ferreira Fadini and Flávia Pereira Lima.
“Ciência Hoje das Crianças” magazine. Edition 222.
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Question 1 - Identify the plants that, according to the text, "are kind of exploiters or, in the language of scientists, partial parasites":
( ) the lianas.
( ) the vines.
( ) the mistletoe.
Question 2 - In the segment "And what that you mean?”, the term underlined:
( ) retrieves information.
( ) announces information.
( ) complements information.
Question 3 - Reread this part of the text:
"It's this: even being able to carry out photosynthesis - this is, to produce their own food from sunlight – […]”
The highlighted expression introduces:
( ) a deduction.
( ) a conclusion.
( ) one explanation.
Question 4 - According to the authors of the text, “the host plant is weakened and, depending on the amount of weeds that stick to it, it can even die”.
Identify the cause of this impairment:
Question 5 - In “The scientists already cataloged about 1,440 species of mistletoe worldwide.”, the underlined word indicates:
( ) place.
( ) time.
( ) intensity.
Question 6 – In the passage “Among them, there are two groups of plants with a large number of species: the lorantaceae and the viscáceas.”, the word “they” refers to:
( ) to lorantaceae.
( ) to viscaceous.
( ) to the species of mistletoe already cataloged in the world.
Question 7 – The excerpt “[…] the viscaceous flowers are small and pale […]” is:
( ) a narration.
( ) a description.
( ) an argument.
Question 8 – According to the text, the fruits of the viscaceous are consumed by:
( ) well-te-vis.
( ) tanagers.
( ) we cat.
Per Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
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