Grade 7 Unit 10 Vocabulary

What is the term for the following definition? 'A visual display of categorical data where each category is represented by a bar whose height represents the number in that category.'

• bar graph

• pie chart

• line graph

• scatter plot

What is the term for the following definition? 'A group from a population that does not accurately represent the entire population.'

• biased sample

• random sample

• representative sample

• control group

What is the term for the following definition? 'A diagram used to display the five-number summary of a data set.'

• box plot

• histogram

• scatter plot

• pie chart

What is the term for the following definition? 'A display of categorical data where the whole set of data is represented by the circle. The categories are represented by fractional parts of the circle. Also called a pie chart.'

• circle graph

• bar graph

• line plot

• histogram

What is the term for the following definition? 'A visual display of data values where each data value is shown as a dot or mark above a number line. Also known as a line plot.'

• dot plot

• bar graph

• histogram

• pie chart

What is the term for the following definition? 'Describes the spread of a data set using the minimum, 1st quartile, median, 3rd quartile and maximum.'

• five-number summary

• standard deviation

• interquartile range

• mean absolute deviation

What is the term for the following definition? A table which shows how many times a value occurs in a given interval.

• frequency table

• pie chart

• scatter plot

• line graph

What is the term for the following definition? A bar graph that displays the frequency of numerical data in equal-sized intervals.

• histogram

• line graph

• pie chart

• dot plot

What is the term for the following definition? A logical conclusion based on known information.

• inference

• hypothesis

• observation

• prediction

What is the term for the following definition? The difference between the 3rd quartile and the 1st quartile in a set of data.

• interquartile range (IQR)

• mean absolute deviation

• standard deviation

• variance