Please Help! What is the function of the underlined portion of the sentence?

Australia is an interesting continent because it hosts so many diverse animal species,
Question 2 options:

Adjective Phrase

Adverb Phrase

Adjective Clause

Adverb Clause

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Please Help! What is the function of the underlined portion of the sentence?

Australia is an interesting continent because it hosts so many diverse animal species,
Question 2 options:

Adjective Phrase

Adverb Phrase

Adjective Clause

Adverb Clause

shasha12 · Answer

the underlined part starts with because

mhchen · Answer

Clauses are separated by punctuation so I don't think it's a clause.

The phrase describes the statement 'Australia is an interesting continent' which is a noun. Adjectives describes nouns while adverbs describes other verbs/adverbs/adjectives.