Climate change and chocolate

Question 1

What does anthropogenic mean?

Answer 1

Caused by man.

Question 2

What is a choropleth map?

Answer 2

A map where different colours show/represent different numbers/values. Usually, the darker the colour, the higher the
number.

Question 3

Define trade:

Answer 3

The movement of products/goods and services around the world by aeroplanes or boats.

Question 4

Define raw material:

Answer 4

The ingredients used to make something. Cocoa is the raw material for chocolate.

Question 5

What is cocoa?

Answer 5

A plant whose beans are the raw material to make chocolate.

Question 6

Define product:

Answer 6

Something like chocolate that is produced or manufactured.

Question 7

Define manufactured:

Answer 7

When something is made (like chocolate).

Question 8

Define consumption:

Answer 8

Using something up (like eating chocolate).

Question 9

Define consumer:

Answer 9

Someone who uses something up (like us buying and eating chocolate).

Question 10

Define production:

Answer 10

Making or growing something (like growing cocoa beans).

Question 11

Define indigenous:

Answer 11

Where something or someone is originally. from

Question 12

Define export:

Answer 12

Something which is traded out of a country.

Question 13

Define import:

Answer 13

Something which is traded into a country.

Question 14

What is agriculture?

Answer 14

Another word for farming; growing crops.

Question 15

What is a primary job:

Answer 15

Jobs like growing crops or collecting natural resources like oil.

Question 16

What is a secondary job?

Answer 16

Jobs that involve making or manufacturing something.

Question 17

What is a tertiary job?

Answer 17

Jobs that provide a service like a shop or a teacher.

Question 18

What is a supply chain?

Answer 18

The different stages needed to get chocolate to the shops.

Question 19

What is globalisation?

Answer 19

The way we are linked to different places around the world through trade and culture.

Question 20

What is retail?

Answer 20

The geographical word for shops.

Question 21

What is the United Nations?

Answer 21

An international organisation made up of 193 countries which aims to manage world problems like protecting human rights with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Question 22

What is a pesticide?

Answer 22

A chemical sprayed onto crops to kill insects (pests) which might damage the crops.

Question 23

What is fair trade?

Answer 23

A system where farmers are paid a fair and guaranteed price for their products.

Question 24

Define sustainable:

Answer 24

To do things in a way which does not harm people or the environment today or in the future.

Question 25

Define gender equality:

Answer 25

When people of different genders are treated equally and fairly.

Question 26

What is development?

Answer 26

The process of countries moving from LICs to NEEs (Newly Emerging Economies).

Question 27

What is an ethical consumer?

Answer 27

A person who makes their choices of what to buy based on their feelings towards how other people and/or the environment is treated.

Question 28

How do we know that our climate has changed?

Answer 28

The temperature has increased

Question 29

What is the greenhouse effect?

Answer 29

A natural process that occurs when greenhouse gases in the atmosphere trap heat from the Sun, warming the Earth’s surface. This process is necessary for life on Earth, but an increase in greenhouse gas concentrations can lead to global warming and climate change.

Question 30

What are the natural causes of climate change?

Answer 30

Volcanoes, orbit changes, and sun spots.

Question 31

What are the human causes of climate change?

Answer 31

Farming, Co2 from cars/industry, and deforestation.

Question 32

Where is chocolate produced & consumed?

Answer 32

Cocoa beans are grown in places like Brazil which are near the equator. It is consumed by places like the UK.

Question 33

Who makes the money in the chocolate supply chain?

Answer 33

The manufacturers and retailers.

Question 34

What are the problems for primary workers?

Answer 34

Pesticides without protection, child labour, lack of education, water and legal rights,discrimination, slavery.

Question 35

Why don’t cocoa farmers get much money for their product?

Answer 35

Because sometimes there’s too much cocoa and people want to pay less for it.

Question 36

What happens if the global price of cocoa goes down?

Answer 36

When the price of cocoa goes down, farmers earn less money. It’s hard for them to make a living and afford what they need to grow cocoa.

Question 37

How does fair trade help cocoa farmers?

Answer 37

By making sure they get a fair price for their cocoa. It also protects them and the environment.

Question 38

What is the Fairtrade Premium?

Answer 38

Extra money that the farmers get when they are part of Fairtrade. They can use it to make their communities better.

Question 39

What is a cooperative and why is it better?

Answer 39

A group of farmers who work together. It’s better because they can get better prices and help each other.

Question 40

How does Fairtrade help gender equality?

Answer 40

It makes things fair for women who work on cocoa farms. It gives them equal opprotunities and supports their rights.

Question 41

What is a living income?

Answer 41

Having enough money for basic needs. Fairtrade helps farmers earn enough to cover those needs.

Question 42

How does Fairtrade help development?

Answer 42

By building schools, healthcare centres, and improving farming skills.

Question 43

Why is Fairtrade sustainable?

Answer 43

It protects the environment and helps farmers use eco-friendly methods. It makes sure cocoa farming can continue without hurting the Earth.

Question 44

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Answer 44

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