Spanish Rivers and Watersheds

The length of the rivers in the Mediterranean watershed are

• short because the Cantabrian Mountains are near the sea.

• long, except for the Miño.

• short, except for the Ebro.

• long and short.

What are rivers that flow into other rivers called?

• Tributaries

• Watersheds

• Oceans

• drought

What kind of flow do the rivers in the Cantabrian Watershed have?

• droughts

• low flow and irregular flow regime

• low flow

• abundant flow and a regular flow regime.

What kind of flow and flow regime does the Atlantic Watershed have?

• Abundant flow and a regular flow regime

• low flow and low flow regime

• irrregular flow and flow regime

• there can be droughts, and in winter, floods.

Where are the Canary Islands located?

• That Atlantic Watershed

• Cantabrian Ocean

• Atlantic Ocean

• Mediterranean Ocean

What are the two Gymnesic Islands in the Balearic Islands?

• Formentera and Menorca

• Ibiza and Mallorca

• Ibiza and Formentera

• Mallorca and Menorca

In what sea are the Balearic Islands?

• Mediterranean Watershed

• Mediterranean

• Atlantic

• Cantabrian

The Cantabrian watershed has an Oceanic climate with ________ rainfall. For this reason, the rivers in the Cantabrian watershed have abundant flow and a regular flow regime.

The Mediterranean watershed has a Mediterranean climate with ____ rainfall.

A watershed is

• a very large expanse of sea.

• an area where all the rivers and streams flow into the same sea or ocean

• a large natural stream of water flowing in a channel to the sea, a lake, or another river.

• a large area of water surrounded by land.