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Testing Your Understanding of Graphs

Total questions: 50

Worksheet time: 13hrs 30mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which city has the lowest rainfall in December? 

a)
Iquitos ( Graph on Left)
b)
Monrovia (Middle Graph)
c)
Normanton (Graph on Right)
d)
None of the above
2.
Which month has the lowest average temperature?
a)
December
b)
November
c)
January
d)
February 
3.
On which axis would you place the independent variable?
a)
X
b)
Y
c)
Z
4.
On which axis would you place the dependent variable?
a)
X
b)
Y
c)
Z
5.
What is the independent variable on the graph (x-axis)?
a)
Flavor
b)
Number of Votes
c)
Favorite Ice Cream
6.
What is the dependent variable on the graph (y-axis)?
a)
Flavor
b)
Number of Votes
c)
Favorite Ice Cream
7.

What does the x-axis measure?

a)

time in months

b)

emissions

c)

time in years

d)

carbon dioxide flux

8.

What does the y-axis measure?

a)

carbon

b)

time in years

c)

carbon dioxide flux

d)

partitioning

9.

What are the five different categories of data on this graph?

a)

fossil fuels, emissions, partitioning, land use, and ocean,

b)

fossil fuels, land use, ocean, land, and atmosphere.

c)

carbon dioxide flux, time, emissions, partitioning, and fossil fuels.

d)

carbon dioxide flux, fossil fuels, emissions, and time.

10.

What do you need to have on a bar graph? Select all that apply.

a)

title

b)

label of categories

c)

scale

d)

x and y axis

e)

bars

11.

Look at the graph. If you had to guess the average high temperature of City Y in November, what would you guess?

a)

50

b)

60

c)

70

d)

75

12.

Look at the graph. Which of these three cities is the coolest in summer?

a)

City X

b)

City Y

c)

City Z

d)

impossible to tell

13.
Which is correct?
a)
the independent variable is distance
b)
the dependent variable is distance
14.

What is the independent variable on this graph?

a)

Year

b)

Number of Visitors

c)

Visitors to a Park

d)

none of these

15.
The line graph represents?
a)
Temperature
b)
Precipitation
c)
Wind Direction
16.
The graph below shows CO2 emissions and temperatures from 1909 to 1949.  What conclusion is best supported by the graph?
a)
There is no relationship between carbon dioxide concentrations and temperatures
b)
As carbon dioxide concentrations increase, temperatures increase
c)
As carbon dioxide concentrations increase, temperatures decrease
d)
As carbon dioxide concentrations decrease, temperatures increase
17.
The following graph tells us what?
a)
Sea Levels are decreasing.
b)
Sea Levels are rising.
18.

According to the graph, which two months in 2001 had the most tornadoes?

a)

April and May

b)

May and July

c)

May and June

d)

June and July

19.
Which city has the highest rainfall in July? 
a)
Iquitos ( Graph on Left)
b)
Monrovia (Middle Graph)
c)
Normanton (Graph on Right)
d)
None of the above
20.

What type of relationship would this trend line indicate?

a)

indirect

b)

direct

21.
Which day of the week had the lowest high and low temperature?
a)
Monday
b)
Thursday
c)
Tuesday
d)
Wednesday
22.

What type of relationship is pictured in the graph?

a)

direct

b)

inverse

c)

constant

d)

exponential

23.

Which variable always goes on the y-axis (vertical)?

a)

Independent

b)

Dependent

c)

Constant

d)

Control

24.

Which variable always goes on the x-axis (horizontal)?

a)

Independent

b)

Dependent

c)

Constant

d)

Control

25.

What Type of Graph is shown?

a)

Direct

b)

Indirect

c)

Cyclic

d)

Constant

26.

What Graphing relationship is being shown

a)

Direct

b)

Indirect

c)

Cyclic

d)

Constant

27.

What best describes a Direct Graph, As one variable increases the other ____________________

a)

Increases

b)

Decreases

c)

Remains the same

28.

Which best describes a Indirect Graph As one variable increases the other________

a)

Increases

b)

Decreases

c)

Remains the same

29.

What is the title of this graph?

a)

Type of fertilizer

b)

Average plant height

c)

The effect of fertilizer on plant height

d)

The effect of plant height on fertilizer

30.

What is the independent variable?

a)

Type of fertilizer

b)

Average plant height

c)

The effect of fertilizer on plant height

d)

The effect of plant height on fertilizer

31.

What is the dependent variable?

a)

Type of fertilizer

b)

Average plant height

c)

The effect of fertilizer on plant height

d)

The effect of plant height on fertilizer

32.

What is the BEST title for this graph?

a)

The Relationship between Time Spent Studying and Test Grades

b)

The effect of Time Spent Studying and Test Grades

c)

Time Spent Studying

d)

Test Grades

33.

What is the independent variable for this graph?

a)

The Relationship between Time Spent Studying and Test Grades

b)

The effect of Time Spent Studying and Test Grades

c)

Time Spent Studying

d)

Test Grades

34.

What is the dependent variable for this graph?

a)

The Relationship between Time Spent Studying and Test Grades

b)

The effect of Time Spent Studying and Test Grades

c)

Time Spent Studying

d)

Test Grades

35.

What what type of relationship is displayed in this graph?

a)

inverse (indirect) releationship

b)

direct relationship

c)

no relationship

d)

not applicable

36.

What is the BEST title for this graph?

a)

Discipline Division

b)

Popular Bachelor's Degrees, 1999-2000

c)

Number of Degrees Awarded

d)

The effect of Discipline Division on Degrees Awarded

37.

What is the independent variable for this graph?

a)

Discipline Division

b)

Popular Bachelor's Degrees, 1999-2000

c)

Number of Degrees Awarded

d)

The effect of Discipline Division on Degrees Awarded

38.

What is the dependent variable for this graph?

a)

Discipline Division

b)

Popular Bachelor's Degrees, 1999-2000

c)

Number of Degrees Awarded

d)

The effect of Discipline Division on Degrees Awarded

39.

Which discipline division awarded the most degrees?

a)

Pyschology

b)

Business

c)

Engineering

d)

Education

e)

Visual & Performing Arts

40.

Which discipline division awarded the least degrees?

a)

Pyschology

b)

Business

c)

Engineering

d)

Education

e)

Visual & Performing Arts

41.

What is the best TITLE for this graph?

a)

The effect of missed free throws on wins

b)

The relationship between missed free throws and wins

c)

Number of missed free throws

d)

Number of wins

42.

What is the relationship shown in this graph?

a)

direct relationship

b)

inverse (indirect) relationship

c)

no relationship

d)

not applicable

43.

How does missing free throws impact your team’s chance of winning?

a)

It does not impact it.

b)

Missing free throws decreases the likelihood of winning.

c)

Missing free throws increases the likelihood of winning.

d)

Free throws aren't how you win a game.

44.

Which axis is the dependent variable graphed on?

a)

X-axis

b)

Y-axis

45.

Which axis is the independent variable graphed on?

a)

X-axis

b)

Y-axis

46.

What's wrong with this graph (select all that apply)

a)

Title

b)

Missing Units

c)

Missing Axis Titles

d)

All of the above

47.

What's the relationship between these variables?

a)

Direct

b)

Inverse

c)

No Relationship

48.

What's the dependent variable

a)

Date

b)

2018

c)

2019

d)

Revenue

49.
What is the dependent variable?
a)
Grade
b)
Number of Students
50.

The connection between two variables that shows the opposite effect

a)

Inverse Relationship

b)

Predict

c)

Proportional

d)

Relationship