Portuguese activity, focused on ninth grade students, explores the conjunctions. How about analyzing them in the text Why do some planets shine in the sky and others not? So, answer the various questions proposed! In “As only the Sun is close enough, it is the main source of light in the Solar System.”, does the conjunction “How” express a cause, a comparison or a conformity? Let's go to the challenge?
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If we were to summarize all the stars we know, in a simplified way, we could classify them as luminous and illuminated. The luminous stars are the stars. Its brightness depends on your distance. As only the Sun is close enough, it is the main source of light in the Solar System. The stars show themselves as pinpricks of light, as they are far away from us. The other stars do not have their own light. Included in this category are planets, satellites, asteroids and comets.
Planets only glow because of the sunlight they reflect. Whether a planet will be visible or not depends on its position relative to the Sun. We can see up to five planets without a telescope: Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. If they have the light side facing us, and above the horizon when the sun has already set, we can see them against the dark sky.
If the planet has an internal orbit to Earth, it never appears very far from the Sun: just before dawn or just before dusk. They are: Mercury and Venus. If the planet has an orbit outside Earth, it can appear at any time of night, and its brightness depends only on the distance and how much of its face is illuminated. These are Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. Uranus and Neptune can only be seen through powerful telescopes.
There are planets that are bright enough to be seen by day. It's just not so easy to find them, because the clear sky overshadows them. On occasion, Venus can be found in the daytime sky during its maximum angular departure from the Sun. To see it, you must look near the Sun (don't look at the Sun). A good tip is to stay in the shade of a pole that serves as an obstacle to exactly cover the solar disk.
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Question 1 - Reread this segment of the text:
“If we were to summarize all the stars we know, in a simplified way […]”
In this segment, the conjunction "If" expresses:
( ) a doubt.
( ) a condition.
( ) an assumption
Question 2 - Note the conjunction "How" in this period of the text:
"As only the Sun is close enough, it is the main source of light in the Solar System."
During this period, the conjunction "How" is:
( ) causal.
( ) comparative.
( ) conformative.
Question 3 - In the excerpt “The stars show themselves as little dots of light, because are very far from us.”, the underlined conjunction could be:
( ) "but".
( ) "why".
( ) "therefore".
Question 4 – In the part “[…] it never appears very far from the Sun: just before dawn or just before dusk.”, the conjunction “or” connects meaningless sentences, which are called:
( ) absolute.
( ) coordinates.
( ) subordinates.
Question 5 - In the passage “[…] it can appear during any time of the night, and its brightness depends only on the distance […]”, the conjunction “e” indicates:
( ) the sum of facts.
( ) the contrast of facts.
( ) the alternation of facts.
Question 6 – In “[…] a post that serves as an obstacle to cover exactly […]”, “that” is:
( ) a relative pronoun.
( ) an integral conjunction.
( ) an adverb of intensity.
Question 7 – The conjunctions, analyzed in the questions, make up a text with the end:
( ) didactic.
( ) scientific.
( ) journalistic.
By Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
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