Week 7 Graphs and Diagrams Key

27.1

 shows / indicates / plots …….y / vertical …….x / horizontal…….key / legend ………..reached a peak
………decline / fall / drop …….. explained by the fact ……….. graphic

27.2.

2 a cross-section

3 columns run vertically, rows horizontally

4 a flowchart

5 four

6 next to each other

7 a key

8 a random sample

9 a) they cross each other; b) they run alongside each other with an equal interval between them

27.3

1 segments

2 plotting

3 peak

4 stages

5 intersect

6 Draw a line connecting the adjacent   points.

7 decline

8 row

27.4

1 plummeted, incidence, risen

2  fell below

3 depreciates, mare tan halved

4 appreciate, soared

5 multiplied, fallen / decreased

6 exceeded

7 grew / rose, doubled

8 declining / falling


Complete the verbs by adding vowels:

 1. increase
 2. rise
 3. decrease
 4. fall
 5. shoot up
 6. take off
 7. plunge
 8. slump
 9. fluctuate
10. recover
11. pick up
12. stabilize
13. level off
14. remain steady
15. peak
16. hit a low
17. bottom out
18. grow

      19.expand

20. shrink

21. decline


Task 3

1.      y axis

2.      x axis

3.      dropped

4.      low point

5.      continued to rise

6.      fluctuated

7.      levelled off

8.      value

9.      rising

10.  value

11.  decreased/dropped/fell


Task 10

1 constitute 20%; 2 Science or Engineering; 3 percentages; 4 relatively; 5 Compared with; 6
majority…minority; 7 Medicine