AS level Geography graphical skills
- Created by: Adam P N
- Created on: 17-05-17 11:43
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Graphical Skills
- line graphs –
- simple and comparative
- used in geography
- see a trend of one or more factor and how these change over time
- advantages
- easy to compare
- simple
- don't need much knowledge to understand
- can be used to predict
- disadvantages
- limit to how much data can be shown
- can become confusing if lots of data shown
- used in geography
- compound
- used in geography
- easily compare change in level of use of items ie non-rewables
- advantages
- can compare many different pieces of data
- easy to see the proportional change
- disadvantages
- easy to miss read as it is just the thickness of one line not the height up the scale
- narrow bars become hard to read
- used in geography
- divergent
- used in geography
- compare changes in related factors eg the demographic tranistion model
- advantages
- easy to compare the differences
- simple
- easy to see a trend
- disadvantage
- could follow the wrong line if lines cross
- used in geography
- simple and comparative
- bar graphs – simple, comparative, compound and divergent
- used in geography
- use discontinous data
- advantages
- can easily compare different data
- shows trends
- shows positive - negative variation
- disadvantages
- taller bars make shorter bars…
- used in geography
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