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DG Unit 1
vocabulary from Ch 1 of Discovering Geometry
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| an angle that measures 90° | Right Angle |
| a angle that measures between 0° and 90° | Acute angle |
| an angle that measures between 90° and 180° | Obtuse Angle |
| two or more lines in the same plane that never meet | Parallel Lines |
| two lines that meet at 90° angles | Perpendicular Lines |
| are formed by two intersecting lines; they share a common vertex but not a common side | Pair of Vertical Angles |
| share a vertex and a common side and their non-common sides form a straight line | Pair of Linear Angles |
| a pair of angles whose sum is 90° | Pair of Complementary Angles |
| a pair of angles whose sum is 180° | Pair of Supplementary Angles |
| closed figure in a plane, formed by connecting line segments endpoint to endpoint with each segment intersecting exactly two others. | Polygon |
| a line segment that connects two nonconsecutive vertices | Diagonal |
| no diagonals are outside the polygon | Convex Polygon |
| polygon whose sides have equal length | Equilateral Polygons |
| polygon whose angles have equal measure | Equiangular Polygons |
| polygon that is both equilateral and equiangular | Regular Polygons |
| triangle that has one right angle | Right Triangle |
| a triangle with 3 acute angles | Acute Triangle |
| a triangle with one obtuse angle | Obtuse Triangle |
| a triangle with no congruent sides | Scalene Triangle |
| a triangle with three congruent sides | Equilateral Triangle |
| a triangle with a least two congruent sides | Isosceles Triangles |
| a quadrilateral with exactly one pair of parallel sides | Trapezoid |
| a quadrilateral with distinct pairs of consecutive congruent sides | Kite |
| a quadrilateral with two pairs of parallel sides | Parallelogram |
| an equiangular parallelogram | Rectangle |
| an equilateral parallelogram | Rhombus |
| a regular quadrilateral | Square |
| the set of all points in a plane at a given distance(radius) from a given point (center) in the plane | Circle |
| Radius | a segment from the center of the circle to a point on the edge of the circle |
| is a line segment containing the center, with its endpoints on the circle | Diameter |
| two or more coplanar circles that share the same center | Concentric Circles |
| is two points on the circle and the continuous (unbroken) part of the circle between the two points | Arc of a Circle |
| an arc of a circle that is smaller than a semicircle | Minor Arc |
| an arc of a circle larger than a semicircle | Major Arc |
| an arc of a circle whose endpoints are the endpoints of a diameter | Semicircle |
| an angle with its vertex at the center of the circle, and sides passing through the endpoints of an arc | Central Angle |
| a line segment whose endpoints lie on the circle | Chord |
| a line that intersects the circle only once | Tangent |