Hot and moist. Similar to the regions near the equator.
What is the definition of tropical?
200
To cause to know; to make known by name.
What is the definition of introduce?
200
To remove or take out.
What is the definition of extract?
200
Equal to.
What is the definition of equivalent?
300
Easily broken; not flexible.
What is the definition of brittle?
300
Lacking a strong flavor.
What is the definition of bland?
300
A number of similar things grouped together.
What is the definition of cluster?
300
To join or bring together.
What is the definition of combine?
300
To use up, or to eat or drink.
What is the definition of consume?
400
To prepare land for the growing of crops. To grow or to help to grow.
What is the definition of cultivate?
400
Until the Spanish discovered it in the 1500s, chocolate was unknown in Europe. Until that time it was ______________
only in Central and South America by the Aztecs.
What is consumed?
400
The Aztec word chocolate means "bitter drink." The word was __________________ into European languages after the Spanish conquest of Central and South America.
What is introduced?
400
The Aztecs didn't use paper money or coins when they bought things. They paid for their __________________ with cocoa beans.
What is purchases?
400
Instead of dollars and cents, the Aztecs priced things in cocoa beans. Ten beans were ________________ in value to one rabbit.
What is equivalent?
500
The first cocoa trees grew wild in Central and South America. Now cocoa trees are ___________________ in many other parts of the world.
What is cultivated?
500
The Ivory Coast in West Africa produces nearly half of the world's cocoa crop. It ______________ over a million tons a year to countries around the world.
What are exports?
500
The United States is not a suitable place for growing cocoa trees. They grow best in ____________________ countries.
What is tropical?
500
Cocoa beans grow close together inside each pod. The ____________________ varies in size from twenty beans to as many as forty.
What is a cluster?
500
Smelling fresh cocoa beans would not help you to identify them. The beans at that stage do not have the distinctive chocolate ____________________.