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Math Geometry
Chapter 8 Geometry Grade 6 PAMS Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| angle measuring less than 90 degrees | acute angle |
| a triangle with all acute angles | acute triangle |
| two rays extending from the same vertex | angle |
| the point that something always rotates around, the axis | center of rotation |
| points that you could draw a line straight through all of them at once | collinear points |
| angles that can be added together to get 90 degrees | complementary angles |
| angles that have the same measure and are the same size | congruent angles |
| figures that have the same size and shape | congruent figures |
| two segments that are equal in length | congruent segments |
| the unit of measurement of an angle | degrees |
| triangle where all sides are equal and all angles are equal | equilateral triangle |
| angles on the outside | exterior angles |
| the figure after it has gone through a transformation | image |
| angles on the inside | interior angles |
| lines that cross each other | intersecting lines |
| a triangle that has two sides of equal length | isosceles |
| a series of points that extends in either direction | line |
| the line on which the reflection has been made | line of reflection |
| the line that crosses through a figure so that the figure can be folded into two exactly the same halves | line of symmetry |
| when an object matches itself when reflected in a line | line symmetry |
| angle that measures more than 90 degrees but less than 180 degrees | obtuse angle |
| triangle with one obtuse angle | obtuse triangle |
| lines that are always the same distance apart | parallel lines |
| a quadrilateral with opposite sides parallell | parallelogram |
| lines that intersect to form four right angles | perpendicular lines |
| a flat surface with no thickness | plane |
| a location in space | point |
| a closed figure made up of three or more straight line segments that starts and ends at the same point | polygon |
| a polygon with four sides | quadrilateral |
| a series of points that extends in one direction but has an endpoint in the other direction. | ray |
| a quadrilateral, parallelogram where opposite sides are of equal lengths and are parallel | rectangle |
| a flip, a mirror image | reflection |
| a parallelogram with all equal sides | rhombus |
| an angle that measures 90 degrees | right angle |
| a triangle with one right angle | right triangle |
| a turn | rotation |
| a triangle with all sides different lengths | scalene triangle |
| part of a line that has two endpoints | segment |
| figures that have the same shape but not the same size and corresponding lines are proportional | similar figures |
| lines that are not parallel will never intersect and are on different planes | skew lines |
| a quadrilateral, parallelogram, rhombus, rectangle, with all sides equal and four right angles | square |
| an angle that measures 180 degrees | straight angle |
| angles that cam be added together to equal 180 degrees | supplementary angles |
| a slide | translation |
| a line that intersects two or more lines | transversal |
| a quadrilateral with only one pair of parallel lines | trapeziod |
| a point where two lines meet | vertex |
| angles that are opposite each other | vertical angles |