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An island is a body of land
surrounded by water. Islands
are smaller than continents.
Islands are biodiversity
hotspots and home to rare
formed when
species. Islands are home to
continental plates
20% of all bird, reptile, and
collide. When
plant species, many of which
they collide they
are unlike any others and Islands can be
push land up
Importance of Islands
found nowhere else in the creating an
world. Islands are key underwater
foundations for coral reef mountain that
ecosystems. Wherever there is goes above land.

a land mass in the open ocean, This land, when

ocean circulation patterns surrounded by

change. Nutrients from the water, is called an
island. Greenland

deeper, colder water rise up to Is the largest

the surface, creating the island in the world

conditions for sea life to thrive.