jueves, 7 de mayo de 2015

Physical geography of Spain

We learnt about how Spain is divided in different communities and provinces. Now we are going to learn about its relief.

The physical geography of a country includes all the natural elements of landscape, like seas, mountains, rivers and plains...

Spain is a península. It is surrounded by water except from one part.

The seas around Spain are:

- The Cantabric Sea in the north
- The Atlantic Ocean in the west
- The Mediterranean Sea in the east and south


We have also started learning about the most important rivers of our country.

You can practice in this interactive maps

Rivers of Spain (What´s the name?)

Rivers of Spain (Where is..?)

This is the map of the rivers we have studied

Last week we also learnt the most important mountains



The mountains that you have to study are:

- Macizo Galaico (in Galicia)
- Montes de León ( in León)
- Cordillera Cantábrica (under the Cantabric Sea)
- Montes Vascos (in País Vasco)
- Pirineos (they are the natural border between Spain and France)
- Cordillera Litoral or Cordillera Costero-Catalana (along the coast of Cataluña)
- Sistema Ibérico ( in Casti
lla y León, Aragón and C. Valenciana)
- Sistema Central (in the centre of the peninsula)
- Montes de Toledo (in Toledo)
- Sierra Morena ( between Extremadura, Castilla-La Mancha and Andalucía)
- Sistemas Béticos (in the east of Andalucía)
- Teide (in Tenerife- Islas Canarias) It´s a volcano and it´s the highest mountain in Spain with a height of 3,718 m

You can practice the mountains in these maps:

Mountains- What´s the name?

Mountains- Where is?

We also learnt that the place where a river begins it´s called the source. It is usually near the mountains. The mouth is the place where a river flows into a sea or ocean.

RIVER
SOURCE
MOUTH
SEA/OCEAN
MIÑO
CORDILLERA CANTABRICA
Between Galicia and Portugal


Atlantic Ocean
DUERO
SISTEMA IBÉRICO
Oporto (Portugal)
TAJO
SISTEMA IBÉRICO
Lisbon (Portugal)
GUADIANA
SISTEMAS BÉTICOS
Between Portugal and Huelva
GUADALQUIVIR
SISTEMAS BÉTICOS
Cádiz
EBRO
CORDILLERA CANTABRICA
Tarragona (Cataluña)

Mediterranean Sea
JÚCAR
SISTEMA IBÉRICO
C. Valenciana
SEGURA
SISTEMAS BÉTICOS
Murcia

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