Food Deserts
This is the term for an area where residents have limited access to affordable and nutritious food.
What is a Food Desert?
This is the most common type of store where Americans buy their fruits, vegetables, and household items.
What is a grocery store?
What is gumdrop?
Which state has the most expensive grocery prices?
What is Alaska?
All the different colors in this loopy cereal actually taste the same.
What is Froot Loops?
True or False. A lack of fresh food as a result of living in a food desert cannot lead to health problems.
False.
An alternative source for fresh fruits and vegetables sold by farmers, oftentimes set in a large field or parking area.
What is a farmer's market?
"We can stay up late, swapping manly stories, and in the morning, ____________!" (Donkey)
What is "I'm making waffles!"?
According to the Box Plot, what is the median cost of groceries per week?
What is about 263?
Watermelon and bananas are berries, but this fruit is not.
What is strawberries?
Instead of grocery stores, many people in food deserts rely on these types of stores for food.
What are convenience stores? (corner stores, gas stations)
This popular U.S. chain is known for its membership-only warehouse shopping and giant bulk items.
What is Costco?
"NO! __________. Onions have ________. Ogres have ______.....You get it? We both have _____." (Shrek)
What is layers?
According to the box plot, what is the RANGE (Max-Min) of weekly grocery store prices?
What is about 76 OR 112?
A cluster of bananas is called a _______.
What is a hand?
This common health problem is more likely in food desert areas due to limited access to fresh fruits and vegetables.
What is obesity, heart disease, or diabetes?
Founded in Arkansas, this retail giant is also the largest grocery seller in the U.S.
What is Walmart?
"It's amazing what you've done with such a modest budget. I like that ________. That is a NICE _______." (Donkey)
What is boulder?
According to the box plot, what are the two outliers for weekly grocery prices?
What is about 328 and 333?
This food item was the first food eaten in space.
What is applesauce?
This is an example of a community-based solution to fight food deserts.
What are community gardens OR mobile markets?
This grocery store, known for organic and natural products, was bought by Amazon in 2017.
What is Whole Foods Market?
"Blue flower, red thorns. Blue flower, red thorns. Blue flower, red thorns. Man, this would be so much easier if I wasn't _____- ______!" (Donkey)
What is "Color-blind!"?
According to the box plot, what is the IQR (Inter-Quartile Range) for weekly grocery prices in the US?
What is about 29?
The first chocolate bar was made in what year?
What is 1847?