The graph below shows average carbon dioxide (Co2) emissions per person in the United Kingdom, Sweden, Italy, and Portugal between 1967 and 2007

The graph below shows average carbon dioxide (Co2) emissions per person in the United Kingdom, Sweden, Italy, and Portugal between 1967 and 2007
The line graph depicts the CO2 emission in several countries which were surveyed in metric tonnes from 1967 to 2007 decennially.
Overall
, all of the numbers indicate positive trends,
whereas
only cases in the United Kingdom and Sweden dropped continuously. In detail, in 1967, the emission of CO2 in Italy revealed 4
tons
.
This
trend
was
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rose dramatically to approximately 6
tons
in 1977, and continue to shoot up until below 8
tons
in 2007.
This
pattern
followed
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Portugal which had a sharp shot up from approximately 1
tons
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to below 6
tons
in 2007.
On the other hand
, the number of
emission
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per person in Sweden experienced a gradual rise from approximately 9
tons
to above 10
tons
. Surprisingly,
this
trend did not
last
long
,
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and began to decline in the following year, which indicated 7
tons
in 1987, and below 6
tons
in the
last
period. The United Kingdom
also
experienced the same situation, which showed 11
tons
in the first year,
then
experienced to fall until approximately 9
tons
.
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Vocabulary: The word "approximately" was used 4 times.

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Topic Vocabulary:
  • carbon dioxide emissions
  • per person
  • United Kingdom
  • Sweden
  • Italy
  • Portugal
  • graph
  • compare
  • average
  • increase
  • decrease
  • trend
  • peak
  • decline
  • years
  • period
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