Descriptive Quizz

Tanjung Puting National Park

Tanjung Puting National Park is an internationally famous ecotourism destination, which is located in the southwest of Central Kalimantan peninsula. Visitors from foreign countries come to this park because of its amazing nature. This is called a park, but unlike any park that you have seen in your city, this is a jungle! It is a real jungle, which is home to the most interesting animals in the world: orang utans. (orientation/identification)

Where is Tanjung Putting National Park located?

• Southwest Kalimantan

• Kalimantan Peninsula

• Central Kalimantan

• foreign country

Tanjung Puting National Park

Tanjung Puting National Park is an internationally famous ecotourism destination, which is located in the southwest of Central Kalimantan peninsula. Visitors from foreign countries come to this park because of its amazing nature. This is called a park, but unlike any park that you have seen in your city, this is a jungle! It is a real jungle, which is home to the most interesting animals in the world: orang utans. (orientation/identification)

What does the author mean by saying that Tanjung Putting National Park is a real jungle?

• Because many visitors come to this place because of its amazing nature.

• Because It is located in Kalimantan Peninsula

• Because in Tanjung Putting National Park people can only find orang utans

• Because we can find many varieties of interesting animals

Though the park is home to many animals, seeing orang utans is usually the visitors’ main reason to visit the park. Orangutans, which literally mean the man of the forest, are the largest arboreal animal on the planet. Most of their lives are spent in trees where orangutans travel from branch to branch by climbing or swinging with their long arms.

What does "arboreal animal" mean?

• the animal that has long arms

• the animal that spends its life mostly in trees

• the animal that travel from branch to branch

• the animal that can swing or climb on trees.

To see orangutans, we should go to Camp Leakey, which is located in the heart of Tanjung Puting National Park. Camp Leakey is a rehabilitation place for ex-captive orang utans and also a preservation site. It is also a famous center for research about orangutans which has been conducted by the famous primatologist Dr. Birute Galdikas since 1971. Here visitors can see daily feedings to orangutans at jungle platforms as part of the rehabilitation process to their natural habitat. This event gives them opportunity to see orangutans up close.

Why do the orang utans need to be rehabilitated?

• because they need to be preserved.

• because they are the subject of research

• because they are not used to living in the jungle

• because they need to be seen by the visitors

To see orangutans, we should go to Camp Leakey, which is located in the heart of Tanjung Puting National Park. Camp Leakey is a rehabilitation place for ex-captive orang utans and also a preservation site. It is also a famous center for research about orangutans which has been conducted by the famous primatologist Dr. Birute Galdikas since 1971. Here visitors can see daily feedings to orangutans at jungle platforms as part of the rehabilitation process to their natural habitat. This event gives them opportunity to see orangutans up close.

Who found the Camp Leakey?

• Dr Birute Galdikas

• Primatologists

• 
  ex captive orang utans

• foreign visitors

Which of the following does descriptive text do?

• Compares two things

• Tells an order of events

• 
  States a problem and how it is solved

• describes a topic

What is a descriptive text?

• 
  a text that provides facts that is educational and purposeful

• a story with problematic events with resolution at the end

• a text which says what a person or a thing is like.

• an essay used to convince readers

This magnificent national park has a wealth of flora and fauna.

The synonym of the underlined word is?

• masterpiece

• very good

• amazing

• beautiful

What is the generic structure of Descriptive Text?

• 
  Identification, Resolution

• Identification, Conclusion

• Orientation, Complication,

• Identification, Description

The language feature of Descriptive text are the following, except ...

• Conditional Sentences

• The use of Adjective

• Simple Present Tense

• Specific Participants