1. Distance vs. Time Graphs
Describing Real Life Graphs

6. Directions
With your partner, match the descriptions 1-4 with the correct graph a-d.
Be prepared to explain and defend your answer.

8. Answers
1 = C
2 = A
3 = D
4 = B
Traveling at constant speed (increasing linear graph /straight line going up and to right)
Car coming back (decreasing linear graph / straight line going down to right means ending back at starting distance)
Speed is decreasing (curved line is still traveling away but slowly going to horizontal/stopped)
Car is stopped (horizontal line is object at rest/ no change in distance over time)

9. What is happening in each graph?
George and his family were watching a movie and eating popcorn. Each family member had a bowl with the same amount of popcorn. The graphs below all show the amount of popcorn remaining in the person’s bowl over a period of time.

10. B

11. B

12. A

13. A

14. D

15. A

16. C

17. B

18. B A C B