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The Vocabulary of Graphs and Charts: Line Charts and Graphs Bar Charts and Graphs Pie Charts Exploded Pie Charts

The document discusses the vocabulary used to describe graphs and charts, including types of graphs like line charts, bar charts, and pie charts. It provides lists of terms used to describe the vertical and horizontal axes of charts, as well as verbs and nouns used to describe positive and negative movements on charts. Finally, it discusses terms used to predict future movements and adjectives/adverbs that describe how quickly or slowly movements occur.

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The Vocabulary of Graphs and Charts: Line Charts and Graphs Bar Charts and Graphs Pie Charts Exploded Pie Charts

The document discusses the vocabulary used to describe graphs and charts, including types of graphs like line charts, bar charts, and pie charts. It provides lists of terms used to describe the vertical and horizontal axes of charts, as well as verbs and nouns used to describe positive and negative movements on charts. Finally, it discusses terms used to predict future movements and adjectives/adverbs that describe how quickly or slowly movements occur.

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The Vocabulary of Graphs and Charts

There are a number of different types of graphs and charts including:

• Line Charts and Graphs


• Bar Charts and Graphs
• Pie Charts
• Exploded Pie Charts

Line charts and bar charts have a vertical axis and a horizontal axis. Each axis is
labeled to indicate what type of information it contains. Typical information
included on vertical and horizontal axis include:

• age - how old


• weight - how heavy
• height - how tall
• date - which day, month, year, etc.
• time - how much time is required
• length - how long
• width - how wide
• degrees - how hot or cold
• percentage - a portion of 100%
• number - number
• duration - the length of time required

There are a number of specific words and phrases used to describe and discuss
graphs and charts. This vocabulary is especially important when presenting to
groups of people. Much of the language of graphs and charts relates to
movement. In other words, the language of graphs and charts often speaks of
small or large movement or differences between various data points. Refer to this
language of graphs and charts to help improve your ability to speak about graphs
and charts.

The following list the verb and noun used to speak about positive and negative
movements, as well as predictions. Example sentences are found after each
section.

Positive
• to climb - a climb
• to ascend - an ascent
• to rise - a rise
• to improve - an improvement
• to recover - a recover
• to increase - an increase

• Sales have climbed over the past two quarters.


• We've experienced a rise in consumer demand.
• Consumer confidence recovered in the second quarter.
• There has been an increase of 23% since June.
• Have you seen any improvement in customer satisfaction?

Negative
• to fall - a fall
• to decline - a decline
• to plunge - a plunge
• to decrease - a decrease
• to worsen - a slip
• to deteriorate - a dip

• Research and development spending has fallen by 30% since January.


• Unfortunately, we've seen a decline over the past three months.
• As you can see, sales have plunged in the northwest region.
• Government spending has decreased by 10% over the past two years.
• There's been a slip in profits this past quarter.
• Comedy book sales have deteriorated for three quarters.

Predicting Future Movement


• to project - a projection
• to forecast - a forecast
• to predict - a prediction

• We project improved sales in the coming months.


• As you can see from the chart, we forecast increased research and
development spending next year.
• We predict improving sales through June.

This list provides adjectives and adverbs used to describe how quickly, slowly,
extremely, etc. something moves. Each adjective/adverb pair includes a
definition and an example sentence.

• slight - slightly = insignificant

• There's been a slight decline in sales.


• Sales have declined slightly over the past two months.

• sharp - sharply = quick, large movement

• Investment rose sharply during the first quarter.


• We made a sharp increase in investment.

• abrupt - abruptly = sudden change

• Sales dropped abruptly in March.


• There was an abrupt drop in sales in March.
• rapid - rapidly = quick, very fast

• We expanded rapidly throughout Canada.


• The company made a rapid expansion throughout Canada.

• sudden - suddenly = without warning

• Unfortunately, consumer interest suddenly decreased.


• There was a sudden decrease in consumer interest in January.

• dramatic - dramatically = extreme, very big

• We've dramatically improved customer satisfaction over the past six


months.
• As you can see from the chart, the dramatic growth has come after we
invested in a new product line.

• calm - calmly = evenly, without much change

• The markets have reacted calmly to recent developments.


• As you can see from the graph, consumers have been calm over the past
few months.

• flat = without change

• Profit has been flat over the past two years.

• steady - steadily = no change

• There has been a steady improvement over the past three months.
• Sales have improved steadily since March.

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