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

HISTORY

When you looked for information of a scientist, we saw that many of them lived in the past.

Check what we learnt in this mind map

Mapa Mental creado con GoConqr por lucia_elsol

YOUR PROJECTS

3A:

3B:COMUNIDAD DE MADRID

3C:

SOCIAL GEOGRAPHY

Now we are becoming experts in geography. We know that we live in the planet Earth and that it has got water and land. Check out the names of the continents and the oceans in this mind map that we made together in class

Mapa Mental creado con ExamTime por lucia_elsol


We have also made a nice poster to see the path from us to this planet

 

We live in a town, that with other towns and cities make up a province. This province is part of an Autonomous Community. 17 Autonomous Communities and 2 Autonomous Cities are the way our country is organised.

Our country is Spain, that with other 49 countries, is part of the continent of Europe.

 

 

We have studied the names of all the communities in Spain and we can almost find all of them in the map.

 

We were so happy learning about places, that we decided to keep on travelling to know our continent, Europe.

Now, each student is named after one country, and we have seen where they are in the map.

 

 

On Monday we are going to have a contest in the class about the capital cities of Europe, so let´s start practising!! There are some countries that I didn´t put, and the contest will be about the ones of your class.

 

Países (español)	Countries (english)	Capitales (español)	Capitals (english)
Albania	Albania	Tirana	Tirana
Alemania	Germany	Berlín	Berlin
Andorra	Andorra	Andorra La Vieja	Andorra La Vella
Armenia	Armenia	Yerebán	Yerebán
Austria	Austria	Viena	Vienna
Bélgica	Belgium	Bruselas	Brussels
Bielorrusia	Belarus	Minsk	Minsk
Bosnia	Bosnia	Sarajevo	Sarajevo
Bulgaria	Bulgaria	Sofía	Sofía
Croacia	Croatia	Zagreb	Zagreb
Dinamarca	Denmark	Copenhague	Copenhaguen
Eslovaquia	Slovakia	Bratislava	Bratislava
Eslovenia	Slovenia	Ljubljana	Ljubljana
España	Spain	Madrid	Madrid
Estonia	Estonia	Tallin	Tallinn
Finlandia	Finland	Helsinki	Helsinki
Francia	France	París	Paris
Grecia	Greece	Atenas	Athens
Hungría	Hungary	Budapest	Budapest
Irlanda	Ireland	Dublín	Dublin
Islandia	Iceland	Reykjavik	Reykjavik
Italia	Italy	Roma	Rome
Letonia	Latvia	Riga	Ryga
Lituania	Lithuania	Vilna	Vilnius
Luxemburgo	Luxembourg	Luxemburgo	Luxembourg
Macedonia	Macedonia	Skopje	Skopje
Malta	Malta	La Valleta	Valletta
Moldavia	Moldova	Chisnau	Chisnau
Montenegro	Montenegro	Podgorica	Podgorica
Noruega	Norway	Oslo	Oslo
Países Bajos	Netherlands	Amsterdam	Amsterdam
Polonia	Poland	Varsovia	Warsaw
Portugal	Portugal	Lisboa	Lisbon
Reino Unido	United Kingdom	Londres	London
República Checa	Czech Republic	Praga	Prague
Rumanía	Romania	Bucarest	Bucharest
Rusia	Russia	Moscú	Moscow
Serbia	Serbia	Belgrado	Belgrade
Suecia	Sweden	Estocolmo	Stockholm
Suiza	Switzerland	Berna	Bern
Turquía	Turkey	Ankara	Ankara
Ucrania	Ukraine	Kiev	Kiev

SOCIAL U-2 Landscapes

Practise the vocabulary and the definitions of the unit with this cards
Conjunto de Fichas creado con ExamTime por lucia_elsol

And review the contents in the unit with the mind map Mapa Mental creado con ExamTime por lucia_elsol

SOCIAL U-1 Water and air

Here you have the web page to practise the elements of weather:

What is weather?

and  the mind map to review the unit

Projects about Spain/ Proyectos sobre España

HERE ARE YOUR PROJECTS:

3A:

3B: COMUNIDAD DE MADRID

3C:


Instructions for the Project

You have to look at home for this information about you Autonomous Community:

- Name, flag, location in Spain, provinces, capital, languages
- Climate, flora and fauna, relevant places
- Typical food, traditions, famous buildings

Decide which person in the group does each part, then, bring the information to the class (written, printed, in a pen-drive) During January and February I will help the groups to organise the information in a presentation. In March, each group will talk about their Project.

Instrucciones para el proyecto

Tenéis que buscar en casa la siguiente información sobre vuestra Comunidad Autónoma:

- Nombre, bandera, localización en España, provincias, capital, idiomas.
- Clima, flora y fauna, lugares importantes
- Comida típica, tradiciones, edificios relevantes

Decidid qué persona del grupo hace cada apartado, luego traed la información a clase (por escrito, impresa, en un pen-drive) Durante enero y febrero ayudaré a cada grupo a elaborar las presentaciones. En marzo cada grupo hablará sobre su proyecto.


To study our country we are going to prepare in groups presentations about the different Autonomous Communities.

First I will give you the instructions in class, then, you will look for the information at home and finally, in class again, I will help you to make up the presentations.

I will teach you how to do it with the computer to show the presentation in the digital board.

We start now in October, and you will do the presentations in February.

Let´s find out how beautiful our country is!


Para estudiar nuestro país vamos a preparar en grupos presentaciones sobre las diferentes Comunidades Autónomas.

Primero os daré las instrucciones en clase, luego buscaréis la información en casa y por último, otra vez en clase, os ayudaré a realizar las presentaciones.

Voy a enseñaros cómo hacerlas con el ordenador para presentarlas en la pizarra digital.

Empezamos ahora en octubre y haréis las presentaciones en febrero.

¡Vamos a descubrir lo bonito que es nuestro país!

Interactive maps /Mapas interactivos

Here you have the first activity to discover the world, a web page with interactive maps to learn different places without moving from your chair.

Aquí tenéis la primera actividad para descubrir el mundo, una página web con mapas interactivos para aprender diferentes lugares sin moveros de la silla


Interactive maps web