Cacao Bean Cycle
This is the name of the insect that eats the nectar of the cacao flower.
What is a midge?
This is the first step in the chocolate factory cycle.
What is roasting?
List 5 fair trade products our class was able to find in grocery stores.
Answers may vary.
This is the country that the first cacao pods were discovered.
What is Mexico?
List 3 countries in which cacao is grown.
Several possible answers.
These are used to cover cacao beans during the fermentation process.
What are banana leaves?
This is the name for cacao beans with removed shells.
What are nibs?
List two benefits of fair trade.
1. Farmers are paid a living wage.
2. Provides resources like running water and schools to communities.
3. Other possible answers.
This ancient civilization believed chocolate was sacred and a "food of the gods."
Who are the Mayans?
List 2 reasons why chocolate milk was banned in several American schools.
1. High Sugar content
2. High calories and unhealthy
These are the places in the world where cacao is grown.
What are countries near the equator?
This is the process of heating, cooling and solidifying chocolate.
What is tempering?
Give one reason why all consumers do not buy fair trade products.
1. Products are more expensive
2. Can be difficult to find them in grocery stores.
After conquering the Mayans, this civilization used cacao beans as currency.
Who are the Aztecs?
This is the healthiest type of chocolate.
What is dark chocolate?
These are the variety of colors of ripe cacao pods.
What is yellow, red, purple, orange and green.
Name all 6 steps in the chocolate factory process.
1. Roasting
2. Winnowing
3. Grounding
4. Conching
5. Tempering
6. Molding
What is child labor, and why is it a problem in the chocolate industry?
Answers may vary.
Explorers from this country brought the first cacao beans to Europe.
What is Spain?
These are the five golden ticket winners in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
1. Charlie Bucket
2. Augustus Gloop
3. Violet Beauregarde.
4. Veruca Salt
5. Mike Teavee
These are the 5 steps of the cacao farming and plantation cycle.
1. Harvesting
2. Opening the pods and removing the pulp and seeds
3. Fermenting
4. Drying
5. Packaging and Shipping
This is the name of the thick liquid that is produced when nibs are ground.
What is chocolate liquor?
List 2 advantages and 2 disadvantages of the chocolate industry.
Possible advantages: Creates jobs, brings joy to consumers, encourages bio-diversity
Possible disadvantages: Farmers are poorly paid, child labor, rain forests are destroyed
A man names Van Houten invented a cacao press in this country.
What is the Netherlands?
These are the 4 variables we changed during the bean growth experiment.
1. Amount of soil
2. Temperature of water
3. Amount of water
4. Amount of sunlight