Landforms
This is the vast, high plateau in the center of the Iberian Peninsula.
What is the Meseta Central?
The two main archipelagos in Spain.
What are the Islas Canarias and the Islas Baleares?
The three bodies of water that border Spain.
What are the Atlantic Ocean, the Cantabrian Sea, and the Mediterranean Sea?
The three basins in Spain.
What are the Mediterranean Basin, the Atlantic Basin, and Cantabrian Basin?
The different protected areas in Spain.
What are national parks, natural parks, nature reserves, natural monuments, and marine protected areas?
The mountain range that divides the meseta.
The names of the Islas Canarias.
The coast with generally high cliffs and small inlets.
What is the Cantabrian Coast?
Rivers that only have water when it rains.
What are gullies and torrents?
The number of national parks in Spain.
What is 16?
These are mountain ranges surrounding the meseta.
The Montes de Leon, the Cordillera Cantabrica, the Sistema Iberia, and the Sierra Morena.
The names of the Islas Baleares.
What is Mallorca, Mernoca, Ibiza, Formentera, and Cabrera?
The coast with low and sandy marshes.
What is the Atlantic Coast of Andalucia?
The basin where the rivers flow abundantly all year round.
What is the Cantabrian Basin?
These are wetlands.
What are flat areas of land that are covered by salt water?
These are the mountain ranges beyond the meseta.
What are the Macizo Galaico, Montes Vascos, Pirineos, Sistem Costero-Catalan, and the Sistemas Beticos?
The origin of the Islas Canarias.
What is volcanic?
The irregular coast with long inlets called rias.
What is the Coast of Galicia?
The Basin where the rivers are dry during the summer.
The reason that more than half of wetlands have disappeared.
What is overexploitation, pollution, and expansion of settlements?
These are the depressions in Spain.
What are the Depresion del Ebro and the Depresion del Guadalquivir?
The origin of the Islas Baleas.
What are the Sistemas Beticos?
The coast in the Mediterranean with small sandy areas called coves.
What is the Coast of Cataluña?
The parts of Spain with no true rivers.
These are ways we can protect wetlands.
What are setting restrictions on hunting and fishing, and establishing protected areas?