Polar bears and climate changing

When we think about global warming and climate change, we usually think how it is going to affect humans. However, we need to think about animals, too. Many species will be threatened extinction by the end of this century if climate change is not halted. One of these is the world’s largest land predator, the polar bear. This magnificent native the Arctic previously had no natural enemy apart man, but is now under threat from nature itself. Because of melting sea ice, it is likely that more polar bears will soon starve, warns a new study that discovered the large carnivores need to eat 60 percent more than anyone had realized.

Polar bears use floating ice as a platform to hunt seals from. They eat a large volume of food during the winter, storing enough fat under their skin to last them through the summer months. When the ice melts in the spring, many travel south to places such as Churchill, Canada, returning north when the seas freeze again, usually around October. Now, however, the winter ice is melting earlier and forming later. The bears’ store of fat runs out, and some starve to death. Other bears are drowning, because many of the ice platforms have melted, and some bears have to swim over a hundred kilometres from one ice platform to another. Due to exhaustion or stormy weather, some never make it to their destinations.

As a result of all these factors, the number of polar bears in the wild is decreasing dramatically. If scientists are correct, and the sea ice continues to reduce by 9% every ten years, it will not be long before the species dies out altogether.

There is still much disagreement over the nature and scale of the global warming problem, and how best to tackle it. However, while the debate continues among humans, animals like the polar bear are suffering and dying. For them, the issue is very real indeed.

The pronoun “they” in “They eat a large volume of food during the winter“ refers to:

Why are polar bears starving?

Com relação ao Currículo Base, consta no documento do Território Catarinense que a diversidade constitui-se como princípio formativo e fundamenta- -se nos processos de ensino e de aprendizagem, reconhecendo, no ser humano, suas especificidades, suas potencialidades e suas possibilidades de acessar as expectativas da Educação Básica.

Amparada nessa perspectiva, a diversidade é reconhecida pelo seu caráter formativo na educação escolar catarinense, efetivamente pelas dimensões pedagógicas que privilegiam:

1. O educar na alteridade.
2. O aprender por meio da meritocracia.
3. O educar para o empreendedorismo.
4. A consciência política e histórica da diversidade.
5. A laicidade do Estado e da escola pública catarinense.

Assinale a alternativa que indica todas as afirmativas corretas.

As tratar das questões curriculares, o documento do Território Catarinense sinaliza a importância de retomar as dez competências gerais estabelecidas pela Base Nacional Comum Curricular (BNCC).

Assinale a alternativa que indica as dez competências presentes na BNCC:

Choose the alternative which correctly describes the method used by Americans to become orally proficient in the allies and enemies languages during the World War II and, pushed the US Army to provide intensive language courses.

Choose the alternative which contains the Method that is focused on grammatical rules.

Choose the alternative that contains the correct definition for Methods of English Language Teaching.

The alternative which contains the correct description for the Scanning Reading Strategy is:

A cross-curricular work is:

Effective readers know when they lose the meaning of what they are reading. When it happens they often unconsciously select and use a reading strategy. There are some strategies that can be applied to develop those comprehension strategies.

Choose the alternative which contains the reading strategies.