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Chapter 8 Vocabulary
Anles, lines, triangles
| Vocabulary | Answers |
|---|---|
| Point | a bold dot |
| Line | keeps going without in two opposite directions. |
| Angle | formed by two rays with the same end point |
| Ray | has on end with a point and the other keeps going in one direction. |
| Plane | a flat surface that extends without end in all directions. |
| Vertex | The end point of two lines |
| Straight angle | measures 180° |
| Right angle | measures 90° and has a little box |
| Supplementary | if the sum of theirs measures 180° |
| Complementary | The sum of theirs measures 90° |
| Vertical angle | there pairs are called vertical angles, and they always have the same measure. OPPOSITE PAIRS |
| Paralled Lines | two lines that do not intersect. SAME PLANE |
| Perpendicular lines | two lines that intersect at a right angle. |
| Corresponding angles | angles that occupliy corresponging positions when a line intersects with two other lines |
| alternate interior angles | insider angles |
| alternate exterior angle | outside angles |
| Quadrilateral | a closed figure with four sides that are line segments |
| Trapezoid | quadrilateral with exactly one pair of parallel sides |
| Parallelogram | quadrilateral with both pairs of opposite sides parallel. |
| Rhombus | parallelogram with 4 sides of equal length. |
| Rectangle | parallelogram with 4 right angles |
| Square | parallelogram with 4 sides of equal lenth and 4 right angles. |
| Acute angle | measure is less then 90° |
| Right angle | measure is exactly 90° |
| obtuse angle | measure is greater then 90° and less then 180° |
| acute triangle | has 3 acute angles |
| Right Triangle | has one right angle |
| Obtuse Triangle | has on obtuse angle |
| Equilateral Triangle | has 3 sides of equal lenth |
| isosceles Triangle | has 2 of the same side lengths |
| Scale Triangle | has NO sides of the same length. |