WHAT IS the MEDITERRANEAN SEA? Quiz

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Year 3 Geography - Europe Lesson 4 WHAT IS THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA? Quiz

Use your atlas to label the world’s 5 oceans:

GLOSSARY

An ocean, sea, lake or river body of water A narrow body of water between strait two larger bodies A channel of water made by humans canal The sea to the South of Europe Mediterranean The outline of the land next to the coastline sea

Part 3: What are Europe’s seas?

FRANCE SLOVENIA

ATLANTIC CROATIA BOSNIA & OCEAN MONACO HERZEGOVINA

Adriatic Sea MONTENEGRO Black Sea Ligurian Sea ITALY CORSICA ALBANIA

SPAIN Balearic Sea SARDINIA GREECE Aegean BALEARIC Tyrrhenian Ionian Sea Sea ISLANDS Sea TURKEY SICILY MALTA Alboran Sea Sea of Crete ALGERIA CYPRUS MOROCCO CRETE MEDITERRANEAN SEA LEBANON TUNISIA ISRAEL LIBYA EGYPT

The Mediterranean

The Mediterranean Sea is a sea that lies between The Mediterranean sea is split up into smaller seas, the continents of Europe, Africa and Asia. Lots of just like schools are split into classes. We are all different countries border the Mediterranean sea. part of the school, but we are also our own place.

Can you spot any on the map above? Which seas can you see inside the Mediterranean?

Name three countries: Name three seas:

1) ______1) ______

2) ______2) ______

3) ______3) ______

Part four: What is the Mediterranean like?

Sort the statements you have been given into three groups:

WHAT IS THE MEDITERRANEAN PART OF?

DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE MEDITERRANEAN

MEDITERRANEAN CONNECTIONS

Then use the information you have sorted to complete the writing task below:

WHAT IS THE MEDITERRANEAN PART OF? The Mediterranean sea is part of the ______. It is the largest ______

with ______km of coastline.

WHAT ARE THE DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE MEDITERRANEAN? The Atlantic ocean enters the Mediterranean sea at the ______. Its deepest

point is 5267m, the ______in the ______. Other smaller

seas inside the Mediterranean are the ______, ______and

______.

MEDITERRANEAN CONNECTIONS The Mediterranean is bordered by ______countries from ______,

______and ______. In ancient times, this was important because

______. Nowadays the

Mediterranean and the ______are linked by the ______.