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vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| measurement of earth | geometry |
| known as the father of geometry | Euclid |
| points that lie on the same line | collinear |
| a closed plane figure formed ny 3 or more line segments | polygon |
| to have the same shape and size | congruent |
| a figure formed by two rays or sides with a common endpoint | angle |
| the common endpoint in an angle | vertex |
| an angle that measures greater than 0 degrees and less than 90 degrees | acute angle |
| an angle that measures exactly 90 degrees | right angle |
| an angle that measures exactly 180 degrees and is formed by two opposite rays | straight angle |
| an angle that measures greater than 90 degrees and less than 180 degrees | obtuse angle |
| a ray that divides an angle into two congruent angles | angle bisector |
| two angles whose measures have the sum of 90 degrees | complementary angles |
| two angles whose measures have the sum of 180b degrees | supplementary angles |
| lines which intersect at 90 degree angles | perpendicular lines |
| two lines that do not intersect and are coplanar | parallel lines |
| two angles that lie between two lines and on opposite sides of the transversal | alternate interior angles |
| two angles that lie outside two lines and on opposite sides of the transversal | alternate exterior angles |
| has opposite sides that are parallel and equal in length | parallelogram |
| a polygon with four sides | quadrilateral |
| has two pairs of parallel sides and all sides are congruent | rhombus |
| has only one pair of parallel sides | trapezoid |
| the 'if' part of a conditional statement | hypothesis |
| the 'then' part of a conditional statement | conclusion |
| a true statement that follows as a result of other true statements | theorem |