Graphing Terms
This is the horizontal line of the graph
What is the x axis?
You need these two things to plot a point.
What is the x and y values?
A pie graph is shaped like this.
What is a circle?
This graph measures what type of variables?
What is discrete?
This is the vertical line of a graph.
What is the y axis?
When do you use line graphs?
What is one variable over a period of time?
This situation is when you would use a pie chart.
When is comparing percentages in surveys?
Bar graphs use this shape to represent data.
What is a rectangle?
What is bias?
What is a line
A pie chart showing four equal sections would mean this is each percentage.
What is 25%
What axis would colours go on?
What is the x-axis?
Describes the distance between numbers.
What is the scale?
This part of the graph tells you what the graph is about
What is the title?
A slice taking up 180 degrees of a pie chart represents this percentage.
50%
If two bars are the same height this means what about their values?
A graph that demonstrates intervals.
What is a histogram?
If a point is at (3,5), the y-value is this.
what is 5?
What is 360?
Why does colour help in a bar graph?
What is to distinguish categories?