| The Industrial Triangle | Back | | ||
| A) Sort out the labels below into 6 categories | ||
| 1) Location | 2) Agriculture | |
| 3) Work and Trade | 4) Leisure | |
| 5) Energy | 6) Transport | |
| Road and rail tunnels to the main markets of Europe (a) | Population of over 10 million people - ready and skilled for work. (b) | |
| Holidays are available on the Mediterranean coastlines in summer . (c) | Export possible by sea through the port of Genoa or by airports. (d) | |
| Natural gas available to power industry (e) | Low lying flat land is easy to build large factories on. (f) | |
| In the north of Italy (g) | Skiing in the winter in the Alps (h) | |
| HEP - water power - from the fast flowing streams flowing out of the Alps. (i) | Centred on a triangle between the cities of Milan and Turin with the port of Genoa. (j) | |
| Mainly cash crops - like rice on the Po flood plain. (k) | Sight seeing by the lakes in the summer and hill walking in the nearby Alps. (l) | |
| Based on the Valley of the river Po - sometimes called the North Italian Plain. (m) | Big farms using a lot of machinery. (n) | |
| Fertile soils and flat land is good for farming. (o) | Milan famous for fashion and banking. (p) | |
| Turin is the headquarters of Fiat cars (q) | Roads in cities very congested. Good motorway network. (r) | |
| B) Colour code the labels to show natural physical advantages (one colour) and human advantages (another colour). | ||
| C) Write out or stick in your notes and headings as a mind map like this: | ||
| | Mind Map | | ||
| D) Extens ion you could write a proper paragraph of 100 words words about The Industrial Triangle of northern Italy. | ||