THE RELIEF OF SPAIN

4TH PRIMARYSOCIAL SCIENCE

Vocabulary

MOUNTAINS are high elevations of land. PLAINS are large extensions of flat land. PLATEAUS are high areas of flat land. 

MOUNTAIN RANGE – group of mountainsVALLEY – space between 2 mountains in which a

river goes.

Relief of spain

Central plateau and its mountains

In the middle of Spain there is a big Plateau.

The CENTRAL SYSTEM divides the plateau in two:

NORTH SUBPLATEAU SOUTH SUBPLATEAU

Mountain range near the plateau

Galician MassifCantabrian RangeIberian systemSierra Morena

Exterior mountain range

PyreneesBetic system

QUESTIONS

What is in the middle of the peninsula?What’s the name of a group of mountains?What’s the name of the mountain range next

to the Cantabrian Sea?What mountain separates Spain from France?The Iberyan System is a mountain that is

near or exterior of the plateau?

ACTIVITIES

Put these words in the map in the correct place

PYRENEES –CENTRAL SYSTEM – GALICIAN MASSIF – SIERRA MORENA – CANTABRIAN SYSTEM– IBERIAN SYSTEM – BETIC

SYSTEM

ACTIVITIES

Now, colour the central system with YELLOW, with RED the mountains that are near the central system and with BLUE, the mountains that are out of the central system

JOURNAL

Which mountains are in your Autonomous Community?