GoMath Chapter 9 Vocabulary

Information collected about people or things, often to draw conclusions about them.

• data

• origin

• scale

• interval

The point where the two axes of a coordinate grid intersect; (0,0).

• data

• origin

• scale

• interval

The difference between one number and the next on the scale of a graph.

• data

• origin

• scale

• interval

A series of numbers placed at fixed distances on a graph to help label the graph.

• data

• origin

• scale

• interval

A grid formed by a horizontal line called the x-axis and a vertical line called the y-axis.

• coordinate grid

• line graph

• line plot

• ordered pair

A graph that uses line segments to show how data change over time.

• coordinate grid

• line graph

• line plot

• ordered pair

A graph that shows frequency of data along a number line.

• coordinate grid

• line graph

• line plot

• ordered pair

A pair of numbers used to locate a point on a grid. The first number tells the left-right position and the second number tells the up-down position.

• coordinate grid

• line graph

• line plot

• ordered pair

The first number in an ordered pair; tells the distance to move right or left from (0,0).

• x-coordinate

• y-coordinate

• x-axis

• y-axis

The second number in an ordered pair; tells the distance to move up or down from (0,0).

• x-coordinate

• y-coordinate

• x-axis

• y-axis