Hierarchy chart

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What a hierarchy chart is

“A hierarchy (from Ancient Greek ἱεραρχία (hierarkhía) 'rule of a high priest', from ἱεράρχης (hierárkhēs) 'president of sacred rites') is an arrangement of items (objects, names, values, categories, etc.) that are represented as being "above", "below", or "at the same level as" one another.”
From Wikipedia — Hierarchy — CC BY-SA 4.0

Types of hierarchy chart

When to use a hierarchy chart

  • Sorting

    Put things in order from the whole to its parts, like the body, its systems and their organs.

  • Science

    Shows how a system is built, like the heart and blood vessels inside the circulatory system.

  • Explaining

    Start at the top box and walk down one level at a time as you explain.

How to make a hierarchy chart

  1. 1The whole
  2. 2The main parts
  3. 3What is in each
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Questions

Where do hierarchies show up?
Hierarchy is an important concept in a wide variety of fields, such as architecture, philosophy, design, church, mathematics, computer science, organizational theory, systems theory, systematic biology, and the social sciences (especially political science).From Wikipedia — Hierarchy — CC BY-SA 4.0
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