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<em>D. To explain the origin of Dorothy's slippers and the Wicket Witch</em>
 
        
                    
             
        
        
        
The subject here is simple" it's just "Antarctica" . 
The verb is also not compound, it's a simple verb: "has". 
The compound part of the sentence is the object: it is: "a thick ice cover and the highest average elevation of all the continents"
so the correct answer is "compound subject"
        
             
        
        
        
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adjective :
Explanation:The preposition, its object, and any modifiers make up the prepositional phrase. Prepositional phrases most often function as adjectives or adverbs. ... Remember that an adverb modifies a verb, and adjective, or another adverb; and it tells when, where, why, how, under what condition, to what extent.