Communicating Scientific Data

Name________________________________ Date_________________ Period __________________
DIRECTIONS: Complete the 1st page of the assignment on your own paper. Complete the second page of the
assignment on GRAPH paper provided by your teacher. Staple your answer sheet on top of this graph sheet
and turn in both at the end of the period.
These graphs show various
data of the Cahaba River
from Thursday, September 1st
to Thursday, September 8th
2011. Complete the following
assignments dealing with the
graphs.
1. On a sheet of notebook
paper, create a data table
with one column with the
heading “Date” and another
column with the heading
“Gage height, feet.”
2. For the second graph,
create a data table with one
column with the heading
“Date” and another column
with the heading “Discharge,
cubic feet per second.”
Name ___________________________________ Period __________________________ Date __________________
3. Make a Bar graph showing the 5-year totals of Incidents by month.
4. Make a pie chart showing number of incidents for 1st term vs. number of incidents for 2nd term using 5-year total
incident numbers.
5. Make a scatter plot representing the 5-year total of offenders and number of offenses by age. Start with age
group “5-9” an include ages through “19 or Older”.
6. Make a line graph showing how the number of offenses changed by year for the “16-18” year old group.