The camel is a large, strong desert animal. Camels can travel great distances across hot, dry deserts with little food or water. They walk easily on soft sand and carry people and heavy loads to places that have no roads. Camels also serve the people of the desert in many other ways.
The camel carries its own built-in food supply on its back in the form of a hump. The hump is a large lump of fat providing energy if food is hard to find.
There are two chief kinds of camels: (1) the Arabian camel also called dromedary, which has one hump, and (2) Bactrian camel, which has two humps.
Taken from The World Book Encyclopedia: Volume 3, 2007
Answer the questions based on the text.
1. What kind of text is it?
2. What is the best title for the text above?
3. What is a camel?
4. What is the special characteristic of a camel?
5. How can a camel travel great distance without food?
6. What is the function of camel’s hump?
7. Explain these terms:
a. Dromedary
b. Bactrian
