All About Chocolate/Economics
Supply Chains
Climate Zones
Other Case Studies
All About MELS
100
Having to do with how people spend money on resources
Economics
100
The journey all goods take before their assembly and sale to customers.
Supply Chain
100
The climate zone we reside in
Temperate
100
The mummy found in 1991 in the Alps
Otzi
100
The colors of the average MELS uniform shirts
White, Green, Blue
200
The two major countries that export chocolate
Ghana and the Ivory Coast/Cote d’ivore
200
What is the last step of this supply chain?
Retailers
200
The climate zone that cannot grow vegetation
Polar
200
Leader of the Mughal Empire that brought different people into his empire
Akbar
200
The day of the week students leave school an hour earlier
Wednesday
300
The raw material that Chocolate is made from
Cocoa Beans
300
How many parts are involved to get the rice to the consumer?
Six
300
Name the four climate zones
Tropical, Subtropical, Temperate, Polar
300
The location of Otzi's body currently
Bolzano, Italy
300
The location of the principals’ office.
The Yellow Main Office
400
Prices rising to meet supply and demand
Inflation
400
Name the five parts of a Supply Chain
Farmers > Exporters > Manufacturers > Retailers > Consumers
400
The climate zone cocoa beans grow in
Subtropical
400
What Otzi's socks and shoes were made from
Grass
400
Name two MELS non-negotiables
Be in uniform, only drinking water in classrooms, phones must be kept hidden during the school day, no bathroom in the first and last ten minutes of class
500
The amount of something versus how many people want that item
Supply and Demand
500
Daily Double!
Gain 1000 points if you can spell all 7 continents correctly
500
The climate zone bananas grow in
Tropical
500
Buddha's original name
Siddhartha Gautama
500
The location of the majority of the 8th Grade Classrooms
Third Floor
1000
One of the reasons there are less cocoa beans growing
Climate change (both rising temperatures and more rain) has changed how much of the crop has grown
1000
The part of the supply chain that tends to make the most money
Retailers
1000
The climate zone that we get some of our fish from
Polar
1000
Name one of the physical features in India
Ganges River / Himalayan Mountains / Eastern and Western Ghats / Indus River / That Desert / Hindu Kush Mountains
1000
The year the first MELS class graduated high school
2016