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Average Rainfall in Five European Capitals

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Writing Task 1

DataGeographyEnvironment

Task visual

Use the figure to guide your summary; the model answer below should describe the same information.

Question

The bar chart below shows average annual rainfall in five European capitals, measured in millimetres. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

Model Answer

The bar chart shows average annual rainfall in millimetres for five capital cities. , Amsterdam is the wettest, with 840 millimetres. , Madrid is the driest, with 420 millimetres, on the chart, which is the Amsterdam value. The most striking feature is the gap between these two and the other cities. Three capitals are in a middle band: Berlin 570, Rome 590, and Stockholm 530. In short, there is between the northern, wetter capital and the southern, much drier one; at the other end of the scale, Madrid’s total stands apart from the rest in the other direction.

Glossary

Overall

Introduces the main pattern or big picture of the data.

The most striking feature of the chart

A formal way to signal the most important or noticeable point on a graph.

the lowest figure

The smallest value among the numbers shown in the data.

roughly half

Approximately 50% of a quantity, used when the numbers are not exact to the last digit.

By contrast

Highlights a difference between two or more groups, periods, or data points.

a marked difference

A very noticeable or strong gap when comparing two amounts.

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