activity of text interpretation, aimed at students in the fifth year of elementary school, on a sea travelers. What kind of traveler will that be, huh? Let's find out? So, read the text carefully! Then answer the various interpretive questions proposed!
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Are you part of the team that considers turtles to be slow and slow animals, who only move for short distances? So, you don't know the green turtle. Since they appeared on the planet, about 150 million years ago, sea turtles like this one have been used to swimming long distances between continents. Do you know why?
During the breeding season, female sea turtles almost always return to the beach where they were born. Wherever they are, annually or every two or three years, they travel there and make holes in the sand to lay 35 to 190 eggs. Afterwards, they return to the water and have no more contact with their young.
THE chelonia mydas – as scientists call the green turtle – is one of the five species of sea turtles that exist in Brazil […]
[…] The chicks are born weighing around 20 grams and run to the sea soon after hatching. However, this is a dangerous moment, as there are predators on dry land (such as the maria-farinha crab or grauçá); in the air (like seagulls and frigates); and in the water (sharks occasionally). That's why, after entering the water, newborn sea turtles head to safer places, such as floating seaweed beds in the open sea, where they find food and shelter.
When young, the green turtle feeds on small molluscs, worms, snails, jellyfish and jellyfish. However, as an adult, she changes her menu and becomes a vegetarian: she eats seaweed and sea grass.
But if what you really want to know is why the green turtle has that name… […] It's because of the fat that accumulates under it and gives this turtle a greenish tinge.
For decades, the green sea turtle was hunted for food. […] Today, however, hunting this animal is prohibited.
Let us hope that, with this decision and with the studies that have been carried out, the situation of this species will change and it will once again be numerous. After all, who doesn't like to see, when sailing or at the seaside, the green turtle swimming gently in the water? We want to help protect it. Is that you?
Carlos Frederico Duarte Rocha.
Magazine “Science Today for Children”. Edition 171.
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Question 1 - In the passage “[…] sea turtles like this one usually swim long distances between continents.”, which sea turtle does the text refer to?
Question 2 – In “During the breeding season, female sea turtles almost ever return to the beach where they were born.”, the underlined word indicates:
( ) cause.
( ) time.
( ) intensity.
Question 3 – Point out the green turtle's predator or predators on land:
( ) “seagulls and frigates”.
( ) “sharks, occasionally”.
( ) “the maria-farinha crab or grauçá”.
Question 4 – According to the text, the green turtle becomes a vegetarian as an adult. Therefore, at this stage of her life, she feeds on:
( ) “algae and sea grass”.
( ) “jellyfish and jellyfish”.
( ) “small molluscs, worms, snails”.
Question 5 – In the segment “For decades, the green turtle was hunted to serve as food.”, the underlined passage expresses:
( ) the place to hunt the green turtle.
( ) the way to hunt the green turtle.
( ) the purpose of hunting the green turtle.
Question 6 - In the fragment “We want to help protectthere.”, the highlighted word was used with the aim of:
( ) take back the green turtle.
( ) introduce the green turtle.
( ) characterize the green turtle.
Question 7 - In the last paragraph of the text, the author addresses the reader to:
( ) criticize him.
( ) warn you.
( ) make him aware.
By Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Letters and specialist in distance education.