Age of Discovery/Columbian Exchange
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Unknown plants and animals?
Match the pictures and the names!
cocoa | |
potatoes | |
squash / pumpkin | |
maize / corn | |
chili pepper | |
sugar cane | |
pineapple | |
tobacco | |
coffee | |
grean beans | |
vanilla beans | |
tomato |
Where are they from?
Sort them into the table.
The "new World" (The Americas) |
guinea pigs | turkey | rubber | cocoa | tomato | maize | (butternut) squash | beans | chili |
The "Old World" (Europe, Africa and Asia) |
horse | cattle (cows) | coffee | sugar cane |
Fun facts
Be careful! Botanically, bananas are berries because their seeds are located inside the pulp.
Strawberries aren't berries but a kind of nut whereas peanuts are no nuts but beans.
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