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Triangle Vocab
vocabulary on triangles
Question | Answer |
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What is a scalene triangle? | Is a triangle whose sides all have different lengths. No sides are equal. |
What is an isosceles triangle? | Is a triangle with 2 sides are the same lengths. |
What is an equilateral triangle? | Is a triangle whose sides are all the same lengths. |
What does it mean to be congruent triangles? | Two triangles that have the exactly the same shape and size. |
What are vertical ( opposite) angles? | Formed when two lines intersect, the angles that do not share a common side. These angles have equal measures. |
What are adjacent (next to) angles? | Angles that are next to each other and form a straight line so together they equal 180 degrees. |
What is the total measure of all three angles in a triangle? | 180 degrees |
What are quadrangles or quadrilaterals? | Are four sided figures - the sum of all the angles is 360 degrees |