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What is this?

Rias.

Describe the Galician Atlantic coast.

Irregular with rocky cliffs.

Describe the characteristics of the Cantabrian coast.

Straight with high, rocky cliffs with sandy beaches.

What is a rias?

A coastal inlet.

Give a river that flows into the Cantabrian sea

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What is the largest autonomous community in Spain?

Castilla y León

What coastlines are included in the Cantabrian coast?

Basque country, Cantabria, Asturias, and part of Galicia.

Give 2 mountain ranges in Spain.

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Give a river that flows into the Mediterranean Sea

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The coastline of peninsular Spain is classified into?

Atlantic coastline and Mediterranean coastline

Coastal wetlands are low-lying areas filled with what kind of water?

Salt water.

Describe the Andalusian Atlantic coast.

Straight with long, flat, sandy beaches and sand dunes.

Name the two divisions of the Mediterranean coastline.

Andalusian Mediterranean coast and the Easter Mediterranean coast.

What are the smallest autonomous communities in Spain?

Ceuta and Melilla

Where are Rias Altas?

North of Cape Fisterra.

Most of Spain is in _____________.

Iberian Peninsula

Where are Rias Bajas?

South of Cape Fisterra.

The Andalusian Atlantic coast stretches from ______ to the _______.

Guadiana River to the Strait of Gibraltar.

The highest point in all of Spain is?

Teide

The Atlantic coastline is divided into two main coastlines. What are they?

Cantabrian coast and the Galician Atlantic coast and Andalusian Atlantic coast.

What are wave-cut platforms?

They are flat, sloaping areas of rock, found at the base of a sea cliff.

What can influence the shape and features of coastlines?

Relief of the land, tides, and coastal erotion.

Give a river that flows into the Atlantic ocean

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What is this?

Coastal wetlands.

What is this?

Wave-cut platforms.