Climate and Geography

Question 1

Where is Iberian Peninsula?

Answer 1

Meeting of Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea through Strait of Gibraltar.

Question 2

What separates France from Spain?

Answer 2

Pyrenees Mountains

Question 3

Latitude of Spain?

Answer 3

36-44 degres

Question 4

Highest elevations in Europe?

Answer 4

1. Switzerland
2. Spain

Question 5

Spains sits a top this major geographical feature.

Answer 5

Meseta Central

Question 6

What is the Sistema Central?

Answer 6

Bisects Spain N vs S

Question 7

Where are the Cantabrian Mountains?

Answer 7

Galicia

Question 8

What is the Sistema Iberico?

Answer 8

-perpendicular to Sistema Central
-Castilla y Leon -> Valencia

Question 9

Where is the Sierra Morena range?

Answer 9

Borders Meseta Central to the South

Question 10

Where is the Sistema Penibético?

Answer 10

SE of Peninsula

Question 11

Major bodies of water in Spain

Answer 11

Mediterranean to the East
Atlantic to the West
Bay of Biscay - separates from NW part of France

Question 12

General climate of Spain

Answer 12

South = warmer
Mediterranean and continental

Question 13

What is the Poniente?

Answer 13

-wind from the west
-cold air from the Atlantic

Question 14

What is the leveche?

Answer 14

-hot and dry currents from Africa dessert

Question 15

What is the levante?

Answer 15

Warm and humid wind from the East through Gibraltar

Question 16

Where is the most amount of precipitation in Spain?

Answer 16

Green Spain
-2,000mm/year of rain
-rest of country is dry