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Background: Have you ever driven into a city from a suburb or forest and thought, “Wow! It seems hotter than the park!” Well, that’s because it probably was.
This graph shows the air temperatures at different locations in and near a city on a single afternoon. Even though the locations are close to each other, the air temperatures near Earth’s surface vary with different types of development.
image source: , originally U.S. EPA
Questions:
- Describe what the graph shows about how temperatures downtown compare with temperatures outside the city.
- I interpret the graph to mean…
- How would you critique the choice of graph type for this question? (Refer to your Graph Choice Chart and suggest a better choice of graph type). https://participatoryscience.org/file/graph-choice-chart.
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