Antarctic Sea Ice Reaches Third-Lowest Maximum Area
In the app: the whole story at your level, listening, the quiz and the word cards.
The same story at six levels
How the first sentence reads at every level, from A1 to C2.
- A1
Antarctic sea ice is frozen ocean water.
- A2
Antarctic sea ice is frozen ocean water.
- B1
Antarctic sea ice is frozen ocean water that surrounds the land at the bottom of the world.
- B2
Antarctic sea ice is frozen ocean water that surrounds the land at the bottom of the world.
- C1
Antarctica is a large landmass surrounded by ocean, which gives winter sea ice room to spread widely.
- C2
Surrounded by ocean, the large landmass of Antarctica gives winter sea ice room to spread widely, yet this geography also pushes the ice into warmer areas where it melts during the summer.
Key words
Words from the B1 text, with their meaning.
- surround
- to be all around something or someone
- grow
- to increase in size or amount
- shrink
- to become smaller in size or amount
- spread across
- to cover a large area
- roughly
- approximately; not exactly
- record
- to keep information for the future, by writing it down or storing it on a computer
Rewritten with AI from facts reported by NASA Earth Observatory. Read the original for the full report.