Island range

High school (ages 12+)
Geography

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/island-range

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. What is the definition?A mountain range geographically isolated from larger, contiguous mountain systems
2. What is the characteristic landscape?Surrounded by extensive plains, basins, or lower-elevation terrain
3. Why do island ranges look like islands in the landscape?They look like islands because they rise high above the surrounding flat plains or basins, so from far away they look like a lone island in a sea of low land.
4. Where can we find island ranges in the United States?In the U.S., the northern Rocky Mountains have island ranges such as the Big Snowy Mountains and the Crazy Mountains in Montana, and the Wichita Mountains in Oklahoma.

Contiguous: Sharing a common border; touching.
Endemism: The state of a species or group of organisms being unique to a defined geographic area.
Tectonic Activity: Processes related to the movement and deformation of the Earth's crust.
Biogeography: The study of the distribution of species and ecosystems in geographic space and through geological time.