“Jeopardy”All about graphs

Graphs in general

Bar graphs and

Histograms

Line graphs

Circle graphs

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Graphs in general: 1 point

collection of information

Data

Graphs in general : 2 points

A graph that shows data by using picture symbols

Pictograph

Graphs in general : 3 points

Collection of data from all the people in a population

Census

Graphs in general : 4 points

Collection of data from some of the people in a population

Sample

Graphs in general : 5 points

The number that occurs the most in a set of data

Mode

Bar graphs and Histograms: 1 point

In this graph categories are separate from one another

Bar graph

Bar graphs and Histograms : 2 points

This graph has categories in numerical intervals

Histogram

Bar graphs and Histograms : 3 points

The number of data values that lie within a certain interval

Frequency

Bar graphs and Histograms : 4 points

In this graph categories can appear in any order

Bar graph

Bar graphs and Histograms : 5 points

Type of graph that would be appropriate to display the numbers of girls and the numbers of boys who use the playground each day for one week?

Double bar graph

Topic 3: 1 point

This graph shows trends or change over time

Line graph

Topic 3: 2 points

Between which two years was the greatest percent

change in left handed students

2000-2010

2.5%

3.7%4.9%

5.2%6.7%

0.0%

1.0%

2.0%

3.0%

4.0%

5.0%

6.0%

7.0%

8.0%

1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 2020

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Year

Percentage of Students Who Are Left Handed

Topic 3: 3 points

Graph that best represents this data

Double line graph

Tem˚C

S M Tu W Th F S

in two cities

Toronto 14 15 14 13 12 13 14

in Oct Montreal 13 14 13 12 11 14 13

Topic 3: 4 points

Line graph will be used to predict thepopulation growth in Toronto in the future

True or FalseTrue

Topic 3: 5 points

In a line graph, it is plotted along x-axis

Time scale e.g. minutes, days, months or years

Topic 4: 1 point

Type of graph useful for comparing parts of a whole

Circle graph

Topic 4 : 2 points

Sarah would use this graph to show what part of her total allowance she spends on clothes, entertainment, books ,and other categories

Circle graph

Topic 4 : 3 pointsA local school survey

indicated favorite ice cream flavours for the

grade 8 students. According to the graph

the favorite flavour

Vanilla

Favorite Ice Cream Flavors

50%

25%

15%

5%5%

Vanilla

Chocolate

Strawberry

Cookie Dough

Other

Circle graph: 4 pointsIf 40 students like vanilla

flavour the best, the number students

surveyed

80 students

Favorite Ice Cream Flavors

50%

25%

15%

5%5%

Vanilla

Chocolate

Strawberry

Cookie Dough

Other

Topic 4 : 5 pointsFavorite colors of grade 8

students are shown in this circle graph. Ten students had red as their favorite color. Number of students

surveyed

40

Favorite Colors

50%

25%

5%

20%

Blue

Red

Green

Purple