Paper 1 · rainfall analysis techniques
A geographer wants to show the seasonal occurrence of rainfall at one weather station using its monthly rainfall records. What type of graph, plotting each month's rainfall total as a bar, is normally used to show this?
Model answer
bar graph
Also accepted: histogram, monthly rainfall bar graph, rainfall bar graph
Explanation: Plotting each month's rainfall total as a bar (a bar graph or histogram) directly shows the seasonal pattern of wet and dry months at a single station.
Derived from ZIMSEC Geography Paper 1, November 2004, Q2
