Geography & Size
Antarctica covers approximately this percentage of the Southern Hemisphere
What is 20 percent?
Antarctica is entirely unique among the continents because it has no independent countries and lacks this type of population.
What is a permanent human population?
Since there are no permanent residents, people of this profession live and work on the continent temporarily.
What is a scientist?
In the sentence stating scientists "live and work there temporarily," the word "temporarily" is this part of speech.
What is an adverb?
Words from the text like "continent," "ocean," and "treaty" are all examples of this part of speech.
What are nouns?
Ranking as the fifth-largest continent on Earth, Antarctica is larger than Oceania and this other continent.
What is Europe?
Signed in 1959, this agreement ensured the continent would be used for peaceful purposes and environmental protection.
What is the Antarctic Treaty?
The South Orkney, South Shetland, and Bouvet Islands are scattered across this body of water.
What is the Southern Ocean?
The text uses these two adjectives to describe the "region" in the second sentence.
This remote and icy region lies in the Southern Hemisphere and is surrounded by the Antarctic Convergence, an uneven boundary where the cold waters flowing north from Antarctica meet the warmer waters of the world's oceans. The Antarctic region covers around 20 percent of the Southern Hemisphere.
remote and icy?
"The Antarctic region covers around 20 percent", the word "covers" is this part of speech
What are verbs?
is uneven boundary surrounds the region, marking where cold Antarctic waters meet the warmer waters of the world's oceans.
What is the Antarctic Convergence?
Before the 1959 treaty, this number of countries had made territorial claims to different areas of Antarctica.
What is seven?
Scientific studies in Antarctica are crucial for learning about wildlife, weather patterns, and changes to this global system.
What is the climate (or environment)?
"Uneven," "cold," and "warmer" are all examples of this part of speech used to describe the convergence and waters.
What are adjectives?
"A vast continent," "an uneven boundary," and "the fifth-largest continent" are examples of this grammatical grouping of words.
What are noun groups (or noun phrases)?