1. Unit 1: THE SPANISH LANDSCAPE

2. Where Spain is situated?
At the north...
At the south ...
At the east...
At the west...

3. THE RELIEF
The relief is the difference between
the highest and the lowest elevations
of the Earth’s surface.
We can find the:
- Interior relief
- Coast relief

4. What is a landscape?
When we travel through the countryside, we see flat
lands, mountains, rivers, reservoirs, forests and villages.
 There are different types of landscape:
 Mountain landscape
 Coastal Landscape
 Flat landscape

5. The Spanish relief
The plains are large areas of land with no hills.
A plateau is a plain at a high altitude.
Depressions are plains which are lower than the surrounding land.
The mountains are very high areas of the ground.
Several mountains grouped together are called a mountain range.
A mountain chain is a long line of mountain ranges.
Valleys are low areas between mountains. Rivers are often found in
valleys.
Hills have a lower altitude than mountains.

6. The central
Meseta

7. The central Meseta
The Central Plateau is in the center of the Peninsula. It is
divided into two parts:
Northern plateau: It fows the Duero River
Southern plateau: It flows the Tajo and the Guadiana Rivers.
There is the Toledo Range.

8. The Meseta is surrounded by…
At the North-west there are The Leon Mountains
At the North there is The Cantabric Chain.
At the East there is the Moncayo Range situated in
the Iberian chain.
At the South there is the Morena Range.