Geography of Italy (Mr. Baskin)

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Across
  1. 2. Italy looks like this shoe--on your foot.
  2. 4. Mountain chain at Italy’s northern border.
  3. 5. City on the Latium Plain--center of a vast empire.
  4. 7. Animals herded on rocky Apennine hillsides.
  5. 9. Continent where Italy is found.
  6. 12. Sea into which Italy juts.
  7. 14. The Tiber made a fine _________ for travel and trade.
  8. 15. Rome’s hills help protect the city from _________.
  9. 16. Gaseous mountains that erupt and create thin, rich soil.
  10. 19. River that runs through Latium Plain and through Rome.
Down
  1. 1. Fruit grown to make wine.
  2. 3. How many thousands of years old is the oldest evidence from Rome?
  3. 6. Grapes were grown to make this fermented drink--a valued trade commodity.
  4. 7. Number of hills on which Rome was founded.
  5. 8. Mountains that form the spine of Italy; make travel difficult.
  6. 10. Sea to the northeast of the Italian peninsula.
  7. 11. Early civilization near Rome founded by this group in Etruria.
  8. 13. Fertile plain on the west coast of central Italy.
  9. 17. Large island to the west of the toe.
  10. 18. Grown by Latium farmers to make flour for bread.