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1.What relationship do you expect to see between the latitudes of the weather stations and the mean temperatures? Plot the data on excel spreadsheet to verify your prediction.

I expect that the temperature will drop as the weather stations are located higher in latitude

2.According to the line of best fit, what average temperature would you expect at a latitude of 52 degrees North.

I would expect the latitude to be 49.6 degrees for the mean temperature to be 18 degrees for July

3. At what latitude would you expect a mean temperature of 18 degrees Celsius for July?

According to the line of best fit, the average temperature at a latitude of 52 should be 16.5 degrees.

• By collaborating with other people I learned that you can make a line graph into a scatter graph, which is what I did here. First I created the line graph, and then I clicked the line setting off, from there I clicked add line of best fit and this is how this graph was created. My personal understanding of the data is that as the latitude of the weather stations get higher, the temperature drops. From what I have learned before this is because less sunlight reaches the areas closer to the poles (North and South). The group that I talked with all had similar ideas so it strengthened my understanding of the data.

 

• The graph is a little small so the data labels for each weather stations are a bit tight, but otherwise it makes sense. I added more numbers in between the axis to make the graph easier to read, so the data is more objective. In order to make the graph more objective, the data could have shown weather stations every few latitudes, such as the temperature every latitude, that way, the line of best fit would be more exact and easier to predict temperatures at other latitudes.