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- 1. Multiple Choice
What is the first article mostly about?
Conditions cause dryness, the continent has colossal blizzards.
Conditions in Antarctica such as temperature, precipitation, and wind.
Conditions in January, the continents average high temperature is about 18 degrees below zero.
Conditions in thick ice sheet almost completely covers the continent.
- 2. Multiple Choice
According to the first article, for how much of the year is Antarctica without sun?
half year
three months of the year
whole year
1/4 of the year
- 3. Multiple Choice
What is the second article mostly about?
The types of animals that live in Antartica.
The types of animals and plants that live in Antartica.
The types of plants that live in Antartica.
The types of microscopic organisms.
- 4. Multiple Choice
Antarctica has an extreme climate. Underline two sentences from the below passage that supports this idea.
Antarctica is the coldest, driest, and windiest place on Earth.
This land mass is about 1.5 times the size of the United States, but there are no permanent human residents there.
This is due to the continent's inhospitable climate.
Of the seven continents, Antarctica is most unlike the other six.
- 5. Multiple Choice
Antarctica has an extreme climate. Underline two sentences from the below passage that supports this idea.
Only the seas provide these creatures with enough food and shelter to survive.
Most Share a trait that allows them to handle the sub-zero temperatures.
Their bodies have special feathers or thick layers of blubber that insulates them.
These creatures include penguins, other sea birds, seals, and whales.
- 6. Multiple Choice
Which statement about Antarctice is best supported by both passages?
Antarctica is home to over 4,000 species of microbes.
Antarctica is the coldest and driest continent on Earth.
Antarctica has several species of marine animals.
Antarctica is sunny from September to mid-March.
- 7. Multiple Choice
Which two paragraphs, one from each article, best support the answer to Part A?
Paragraph 1 in "Desert of Ice"
Paragraph 2 in "Desert of Ice"
Paragraph 4 in "Desert of Ice"
Paragraph 1 in "Antarctica's Life"
Paragraph 3 in "Antarctica's Life"
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