"Das Spiel der Großen im Kleinen"
Export Goods from the Tropics
Palm Oil
Bananas – The Plant and its Cultivation
The Importance of Bananas as World Trade Good
100
How do you call all the countries coloured in blue? (PPT 1)
They are called industrialized countries.
100
List 4 minerals from the tropics which are exported.
Di - diamonds/ Ag - silver/ Au - gold/ Cu - copper/ Al - bauxite/ Ni - nickel/ Cr - chrome
100
Name 3 products which are made of palm oil.
ice-cream/ butter or margarine/ cosmetics/ soap/ washing powder/ shower gel
100
Are most of the dessert bananas food crops or cash crops?
cash crops
100
Who earns the most in the banana trade? workers, plantation owners, import/ export firms, supermarkets
supermarkets - then import/ export firms
200
75% of all the people in the world live there.
What are the developing countries?
200
Name 4 agricultural products which are exported from the tropics.
palm oil/ bananas/ cocoa/ coffee/ rice/ peanuts (rubber) (wood)
200
Explain why the plantation workers must use so much pesticides for the oil palms.
There are many insects (because they find a lot of food there) and also plant diseases (which spread easily because of the monoculture)
200
When do you call a banana a food crop?
When the producer of the banana eat it themselves and do not sell it.
200
Name the biggest importer of bananas and say how many percent they import. (PPT 4)
the European Union, 39%
300
Describe what the nutcracker of the game stands for in reality.
It stands for the machines which are used for example to get the raw materials out of the ground.
300
You can make aluminium from this mineral.
What is bauxite?
300
Explain why oil palms need a lot of fertilizer.
They are a permanent culture which takes up always the same nutrients from the soil for a long time.
300
Explain why the banana is not a tree.
It has no wooden stem but the pseudostem consists of compressed leaves.
300
Name the 4 biggest American banana export countries and say how many percent they export together. PPT 5
Ecuador (29%), Costa Rica (13%), Columbia (10%), Guatemala (7%) => 59%
400
Explain why the developing countries did not get the key at the beginning of the game (but the industrialized countries instead).
They don't have the technical know-how to a) get to the raw materials. b) find out where the raw materials are.
400
Name 2 plant products from the tropics that we use not for eating but in another way.
wood/ rubber
400
Explain the role of the industrialized countries in the palm oil trade on the following line graph. (PPT 3)
They don't play an important role because their use of palm oil hasn't increased/ was almost stable from 1997 to 2001.
400
Explain why you sometimes cultivate bananas together with coffee in mixed gardens.
Because the banana offers/ gives shade to smaller plants.
400
Asia produces 60% of all bananas worldwide. Explain why they do not export many of them, however.
They mostly produce cooking and textile bananas, which they eat and need themselves, but not dessert bananas, which are mainly exported. ALTERNATIVELY: A lot of people live there, who use many bananas for cooking.
500
What do the developing countries have to do in the first place in order to improve their situation?
They need to educate the people there./ They need education.
500
Explain the problem in the following picture: (PPT 2)
- bananas are cheap => you need a lot of them in order to buy a tractor => developing countries don't get a lot of money for selling their raw materials and agricultural goods but have to pay a lot to the industrialized countries for their products (if the developing countries don't have the money they to borrow money) - tractors are very expensive => industrialized countries sell their products for high prices
500
Explain why or why not oil palm plantations help the native (indigenous) people.
- there are schools on the plantations where the workers' children can go to - the workers on the plantation have a job for the whole year - the owner of the plantations also build houses for the workers, a hospital, a place where they can do sports and a house for events - a plantation is like a little city
500
Evaluate (beurteile) if we can grow bananas in our school garden.
1. CHECK: It is not possible – there are no bananas in our garden or somewhere else in Rottenburg 2. REASON: too cold and too dry
500
Today, more bananas are produced in America than 40 years ago. Explain why the American part becomes smaller in the bar chart. PPT 6
the bar chart only shows the percentage of all the bananas produced worldwide but not how many tons are produced
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