The Geography of Greece

The Geography of Greece Online Quiz Directions: Choose a word from the Word Bank below to make each statement true. All words are used and the word "olives" is used twice. Greece's geography consists of rocky, hillyland with little usuable farmland.Greece is surrounded by water. The coastlineis jagged, and there are about 400islands. The largest Greek island is Crete.Greece "sticks out" into an enormous sea called the MediterraneanSea (the same body of water into which the Nile River empties.) The mainland of Greece consists of two large peninsula:a finger of land with water on three sides. The largest of these is called the Peloponnesus. The other is Attica. The coastline of Greece has many inlets of water where ships can dock. These protective insets are called harbors. The rocky landscape of Greece allows for two crops to thrive there: olivesand grapes. Two animal species that "like" the rocky terrain are sheepand goats. The most valuable agricultural product of Ancient Greece (and still one of the most valuable today are olives. If you press this product, you get a liquid that has many uses - including lotionfor skin, fuelfor lighting lamps and for cooking, and as a flavoring on food. The surplus of this important product, plus Greece's location in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, plus the fact that traveling over land in Greece is hard, meant that shippinggoods by boat became a major part of Greece's economy. Word Bank Use these words in the paragraph above. the word "olives" appears twice. grapes food shipping olives economy fuel goats lotion 400 peninsula farmland Attica harbors olives hilly product water Crete Mediterranean sheep coastline