Alicia’s grandmother asked Alicia to explain what she had learned about global warming and climate change. Alicia thought it would be helpful if she created a graph to show how temperatures had changed over the past hundred years Alicia created this graft and shared it with her grandmother, Alicia’s grandmother ask Alicia to clarify the data. It looked like an important part of the graph was missing, which one of the following graphs has it changed that would best clarify the data.

Without seeing the graphs that are being compared, it is difficult to determine which one would best clarify the data. However, adding a trend line to show the overall temperature change over the past hundred years would likely be the most helpful in clarifying the data. This trend line would show the general direction of the temperature change and make it easier to see if there has been a consistent increase in temperatures over time.