Question | Answer |
Acute Angle | An angle that measures lesss than 90 degrees |
Acute Triangle | A triangle that has three |
Angle | A figure formatted by two rays with a common end point called the vertex. |
Center of rotation | The point about which the figure is rotated |
Complementary Angles | Two angles whose measures add at 90 degrees |
Congruent | Having the same size and shape. |
Correspondence | The relationship between two or more objects that are matched. |
Equilateral Triangle | a triangle with three congruent sides. |
Image | A figure resulting from a transformation. |
Isosceles Triangle | A triangle with at least two congruent sides. |
Line | A straight path that extends without an end in opposite directions |
Line of symmetry | The imaginary mirror in line of symmetry. |
Obtuse angle | An angle that is measured and is greater than 90 but less than 180. |
Obtuse triangle | A triangle containing one obtuse angle. |
Parallel lines | Lines in a plane that do not intersect. |
Parallelogram | Quadrilateral with two pair of parallel sides |
Perpendicular lines | Lines that intersect two parallel lines |
Plane | A flat surface that extends forever |
Point | An exact location in space |
Polygon | A closed plane figure formed by three or more lines segments that intersect only at their end points (vertices). |
Ray | A part of a line that starts at one end point and it extends forever |
Rectangle | a parallel line with four right angles. |
Reflection | A transformation of a figure that flips the figure across a line. |
Regular polygon | Polygon with congruent sides and angles. |
Rhombus | a parallelogram with all sides congruent. |
Right angle | An angle that measures 90 degrees |
Right triangle | A triangle containing a right angle. |
Rise | a vertical change when the slope of a line is expressed as a ratio “rise over run”. |
Rotation | A transformation in which a figure is turned around a point. |
Rotational Symmetry | A figure has rotational symmetry if it can be rotated less than 360 degrees around a central point and concide with original figure. |
Run | The horizontal change when the slope of a line is expressed as the ratio "rise over run" |
Scalene Triangle | A triangle with no congruent sides |
Segment | A part of a line between two end points |
Slope | A measure of the steepness of a line on a graph; the rise divided by the run |
Square | A rectanhgle with four congruent sides |
Supplementary angles | Two angles who measures have a sum of 180 degrees |
Tessellation | A repeating pattern of plane figures that completely cover a plane with no gaps or overlaps |
Transformation | A change in the size or postion in a figure |
Translation | A movement of a figure along a straight line |
Transversal | A line that intersects two or more lines |
Trapezoid | A quadriladeral with exactly 1 pair of parellel sides |
Triangle Sum Theorem | The theorem that states the measures of the angles in a triangle add up to 180 degrees |
Vertical angles | A pair of opposite congruent angles formed by intersecting lines |