Understanding Bar Graphs and Pie Charts

About This Quiz & Worksheet

This quiz/worksheet combo can be used to gauge your knowledge of bar graphs and pie charts. You'll be tested on reading bar graphs and pie charts and answering related questions.

Quiz & Worksheet Goals

In these assessments you'll be assessed on the following:

• Reading bar graphs
• Reading pie charts
• Identifying the sectors of a pie chart

Skills Practiced

This quiz and worksheet allow students to test the following skills:

• Critical thinking - examine information given in pie charts and how it relates to the whole
• Problem solving - use acquired knowledge to identify information in a pie chart or bar graph
• Interpreting information - verify that you can read information on bar graphs and pie charts and interpret it correctly

Additional Learning

To learn more about graphs, review the accompanying lesson called Understanding Bar Graphs and Pie Charts. This lesson covers the following objectives:

• Understand a pie chart represents a whole or 100%
• Identify sets of data that should be represented on a bar graph
• Understand what a sector is
• Identify the graph title
• Recognize the intervals used on a bar graph