Your turn Remember and define the main terrestrial and coastal landforms. Look at the map and make a table of the main peaks and mountain ranges, plateaus and plains, capes, gulfs, islands and peninsulas for each continent. Classify the main rivers and lakes on the planet by continent in a table. Use the physical map of Europe in your atlas to make index cards of the landforms and continental waters. Group the rivers into basins. Draw a blank map of Spain and complete it with the seas and oceans, the main mountain ranges, the most important rivers and the main coastal features. Analyse the organisation of the Earth's continental landforms and waters Landforms and water are essential natural resources. Landforms. The main landforms are mountains, plateaus, plains and basins or depressions ( lakes have formed in some depressions). Mountains can be grouped into mountain ranges. Between them there are valleys, which are crossed by rivers. Coastal landforms include clif fs, beaches, peninsulas, capes, gulfs and bays. (4) Continental waters. The territor y occupied by a main river and all its tributaries is called a river basin , while the territor y occupied by all the rivers that f low into the same sea or ocean is called a basin . B E A G E O G R A P H E R 4. Physical map of the world 12
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