On which axis would you place the names of the planets?
Biology · Middle School · Thu Feb 04 2021
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When creating a graph or chart that involves the names of the planets, you would typically place the names of the planets on the categorical axis, which is usually the horizontal axis, known as the x-axis. This is under the assumption that you are plotting something that varies for each planet like their sizes, number of moons, or average distance from the Sun.
For instance, if you're creating a bar graph to show the number of moons each planet has, the x-axis would have categories for each planet (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and potentially dwarf planets like Pluto if included), and the y-axis (the vertical axis) would show the number of moons, which is a numerical value.