The document provides definitions for common terms used when describing trends and changes shown in graphs. Key terms defined include decline, decrease, fall, drop to describe downward trends, and gain, improve, increase, rise to describe upward trends. Other terms defined are fluctuate for variable trends, level off for stable trends, and peak, plummet, recover, rocket for large changes in trends up or down.

1. READING GRAPHS Decline, decrease, fall, drop Double Fluctuate Gain, improve, increase, rise Halve Level off Peak Plummet Recover Rocket Triple Prepared by Barbara Born