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Paul Geometry Vocab.
Geometry Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| line segment | a straight path with 2 end points |
| line | a never ending straight path going in both directions |
| ray | a straght never ending path with 1 end point going in 1 direction |
| point | an exact location in space |
| plane | a flat surface that goes on forever in all directions |
| angle | 2 rays joined at a vertex |
| triangle | a 3 sided polygon |
| acute triangle | a 3 sided polygon in which all angles are acute |
| right triangle | a 3 sided polygon in which there is 1 right angle |
| obtuse triangle | a 3 sided polygon in which there is 1 obtuse angle |
| scalene triangle | a polygon with no congruent sides |
| isosoles triangle | a polygon with at least 2 congruent sides |
| equaladeral triangle | a polygon with all congruent sides |
| parralelogram | a quadreladeral with oposite sides congruent and parralel |
| rectangle | a quadreladeral with all sides congruent , parralel, and has 4 right angles |
| square | a quaderladeral with all sides congruent, parralel, and has 4right angles |
| rhombus | a parralelogram with all sides congruent |
| trapezoid | a quadreladeral with 1 pair of parralel lines |
| quadreladeral | a 4 sided closed figure made of line segments |
| polygon | a closed figuer made of line segments |
| pentagon | a 5 sided polygon |
| hexagon | a 6 sided polygon |
| heptagon | a 7 sided polygon |
| octagon | a 8 sided polygon |
| nonagon | a 9 sided polygon |
| decagon | a 10 sided polygon |
| undecagon | a 11 sided polygon |
| dodecagon | a 12 sided polygon |
| vertical angle | opposite angles same degrees |
| supplementary angles | at least 2 angles that equal 180 degrees |
| complimentary angles | at least 2 angles that equal 90 degrees |
| adjacent angles | 2 angles that share the same ray |
| acute angles | an angle that is 89 or less degrees |
| right angles | an angle that is exactly 90 degrees |
| obtuse angles | an angl;e that is 91 or more degrees |
| strait angle | an angle that is exactly 180 degrees,a strait line |