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ASVAB Paragraph Comprehension 2.5 Detail. Which of the following statements about Antarctica is accurate, according to the passage?


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00:00

[ musical flourish ]

00:03

And here's your Shmoop du jour, brought to you by the coldest desert on Earth,

00:07

which, for some reason, makes us crave ice cream.

00:10

Huh. Cold weather's kinda weird.

00:12

All right, well, check out the following passage. Here we go.

00:15

All right, well, which of the following statements about Antarctica

00:17

is accurate according to the passage?

00:20

And here are the potential answers. [ ding ]

00:24

[ chuckles ]

00:24

All right, well, we can get the ball rolling by eliminating option A.

00:27

Even though Antarctica is cold and we usually equate cold with snow,

00:32

the passage tells us that Antarctica gets very little precipitation.

00:36

Hopefully they still get snow days, though, but it sounds unlikely.

00:40

[ aww ]

00:41

We can also rule out option B.

00:43

The passage states that the continent's forbidding climate

00:45

prevents extensive plant and animal life.

00:48

Looks like they're stuck watching silly cat videos on YouTube.

00:52

I can haz Shmoop. [ meow ]

00:55

We also safely eliminate option D, because the last sentence of the passage

00:58

tells us that the whole continent is a scientific preserve.

01:01

We're more strawberry preserve kind of people, but we'll settle for scientific

01:05

if we have to.

01:07

The correct answer here is option C -

01:09

Antarctica is the coldest continent on Earth,

01:12

and it is a desert.

01:13

Even though Antarctica is

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very different from the hot, sandy deserts we usually picture,

01:18

it still is technically a desert.

01:20

But we imagine mirages there are...

01:23

quite a bit different.

01:24

[ ah ]

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