Paper 1 · November 2004 · 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

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