Name: _________________________
Date: __________________________
Period: _________________________
What The World Eats
Directions: Using the four pictures distributed to your group answer the following questions.
1. List five specific examples of cultural diffusion.
2. Does the food depicted relate to the climate of each country?
3. Assign each of the families to one of the three social classes. Explain why you think they are part of
that social class.
4. Which of the families live in an agricultural society? Which live in an industrial society?
5. Which countries have some of the unhealthiest diets? Which countries have the healthiest diets?
Why?
6. Does globalization have a positive or negative effect on people’s diets?
7. What will these families’ pictures look like in 20 years? Be specific.
Name: _________________________
What Your Family Eats – Where does your family fit in the global community?
Requirements
Photograph with your family’s food purchases for the week
Point Value
10 points
The following information typed and printed:
1. List 5 examples of cultural diffusion in your food purchases or in your refrigerator. Be specific.
5 points
2. Did your food choices relate to the geography and climate of New Jersey? Explain.
5 points
3. How does globalization affect your family’s diet?
5 points
4. How far did the items have to travel to get to the supermarket? Give three examples.
5 points
Go to the following website to answer questions 5-7
http://time.com/8515/hungry-planet-what-the-world-eats/
5. Which family photographs are similar? Why?
5 points
6. Which family photographs are different? Why?
5 points
7. In a paragraph compare and contrast your family’s photograph with one family selected from
the website.
This assignment is worth 50 points.
The project is due _____________________________
10 points