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1. All the different features of the Earth´s surface make up the landscape.

2. Plateau
Depression
Coastal
Plain
Range
Mountai
n Chain
Hill
Valley
 Mountains and plains in Spain
map marsh
cape
…
 Spanish coast map

3. All the different features of the Earth´s
surface make up the landscape.

8. Plateau
Depressions
Coastal plains
Plains are large areas of flat land with no hills or slopes.
A plateau is a plain at high altitude
Depressions are plains wich are lower
than the surrounding land.
Coastal plains are flat land near the coast.

11. Mountains
Hills
Mountains are raised parts of the Earth´s surface.
Hills have a lower altitude than
mountains.

12. Several mountains grouped together
are called a mountain range
A long line of mountain ranges
is called a mountain chain

13. Valleys are low
areas between
mountains.
Rivers are often
found in valleys.

15. Mountains Plain Depressions

16. The Iberian peninsula has many different landscapes, the shows the
mountains and plains.
Central Spain is dominated by a large plateau, called the Central Plateau.
This is divided into two parts by the Central Mountain Chain.
There are mountains to the north, east and south of the Central Plateau:
- The Pyrenees is a mountain chain to the north of the Central
Plateau.
- The Betic Chain is a mountain chain to the south of the Central
Plateau.
The highest peaks on the peninsula are in these chains.
The Iberian peninsula has narrow coastal plains.
There are two extensive depressions:
-The Ebro depression in the north
- The Guadalquivir depression in the south

17. 1. What is an oceanic ridge?
2. What happens when underwater mountain peaks reach the surface?
3. What is an oceanic trench?
4. Where is the deepest oceanic trench?

18. Altitude is
the height
or
something
above sea
level, or
Earth´s
surface.

20. An estuary is the
part os a river which
opens into the sea.
A marsh is a wet land Low-lying coasts:
near the mouth of a river. are plains by the sea.
They often have sandy
beaches.
An archipelago is a
A Cape is a land
which extends into the group of islands.
sea.
An island is a land which is
almost completely surrounded
by water.
High coasts: are
mountain or high areas by
the sea. The often have
rocky cliffs. A peninsula is a land
which is almost completely
surrounded by water.
A Gulf is a place where the
sea extends into de land.

21. The Cantabrian coast has rocky cliffs,
estuaries and gulfs.
The Atlantic coast
is very varied. In the The
northwest it is high Mediterranean
and rocky. There coast is low-lying
are many estuaries. and sandy. There
are many long
In the south, it is beaches.
low-lying and
sandy.
In the Balearic
The coastline in the Islands, high
Canary Islands coasts alternate
varies greatly. with long beaches.