{"id":1092,"date":"2010-05-14T13:17:41","date_gmt":"2010-05-14T13:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/?p=1092"},"modified":"2010-05-14T00:33:13","modified_gmt":"2010-05-14T00:33:13","slug":"reading-comprehension-lizards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/reading-comprehension-lizards\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading Comprehension: Lizards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today we&#8217;re going to look at an article about lizards and global warming. Have a read and try to answer the questions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.estadao.com.br\/noticias\/vidae,aquecimento-global-ja-leva-populacoes-de-lagartos-a-extincao,551391,0.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Aquecimento global j\u00e1 leva popula\u00e7\u00f5es de lagartos \u00e0 extin\u00e7\u00e3o<\/a>, Estad\u00e3o<\/p>\n<p>Excerpt: &#8220;<em>O aquecimento global est\u00e1 inviabilizando a sobreviv\u00eancia de v\u00e1rias  popula\u00e7\u00f5es de lagartos, reduzindo o tempo em que os animais\u00a0 se mant\u00eam  ativos para buscar comida e gerar filhotes, diz estudo internacional  publicado a revista Science. Pelo menos 5% das esp\u00e9cies  existentes j\u00e1 est\u00e3o comprometidas, afirma o pesquisador brasileiro  Carlos Frederico Duarte Rocha, um dos autores do estudo. Rocha \u00e9  professor do Departamento de Ecologia do Instituto de Biologia da UERJ.<\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Questions<\/span><\/p>\n<p>1. Where does the scientist in the article work? Where did the study take place?<\/p>\n<p>2. Why is global warming contributing to lizard extinction?<\/p>\n<p>3. The scientist studied the <em>Liolaemus lutzae<\/em> species, found in Rio de Janeiro. How many populations used to exist, and how many have disappeared?<\/p>\n<p>4. What does the Science article predict will happen in 2080?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Answers<\/span><\/p>\n<p>1. He works at the Biology Institute at the Universidade Estadual do Rio de Janeiro. The study took place in Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>2. The increased heat can cause overheating, so lizards spend less time in the sun, and by spending less time out in the open, they&#8217;re less likely to reproduce.<\/p>\n<p>3. There were 24, and 7 disappeared.<\/p>\n<p>4. The article predicts 20 percent of the world&#8217;s current lizard species will be extinct.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we&#8217;re going to look at an article about lizards and global warming. Have a read and try to answer the questions. Aquecimento global j\u00e1 leva popula\u00e7\u00f5es de lagartos \u00e0 extin\u00e7\u00e3o, Estad\u00e3o Excerpt: &#8220;O aquecimento global est\u00e1 inviabilizando a sobreviv\u00eancia de v\u00e1rias popula\u00e7\u00f5es de lagartos, reduzindo o tempo em que os animais\u00a0 se mant\u00eam ativos&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/reading-comprehension-lizards\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[1851],"tags":[1909,8825,2271,2447,2500,2551],"class_list":["post-1092","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-learning","tag-article","tag-biology","tag-lizard","tag-reading","tag-science","tag-study"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1092"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1096,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092\/revisions\/1096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}