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Math Vocab Unit 1
Geometry vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| point | has no size, all geometric figures are made. |
| Line | series of points that extends in opposite directions without end. |
| Plane | a flat surface with no thickness |
| Space | the set of all points |
| Rays | part of a line with one endpoint |
| Segment | part of a line with two end points |
| Opposite Rays | two collinear rays with a common endpoint |
| Acute angle | angle less than 90' |
| Obtuse angle | angle more than 90' |
| Straight Angle | angle 180' |
| Collinear | points on the same line |
| coplanar | points and lines in the same plane. 3 |
| Deductive reasoning | use facts, definitions, rules or properties to reach a conclusion |
| conjecture | a conclusion reached using inductive reasoning |
| parallel lines | coplanar lines that never intersect |
| skew lines | non-planar lines that never intersect |
| angle | formed by two rays with same endpoint |
| right angle | equals 90' |
| vertical angles | non adjacent angled formed by two intersecting lines |
| linear pair | angles are adjacent whose non common sides are opposite rays |
| adjacent angles | angles in the same plane that have a common vertex and a common side, but no common interior points |
| supplementary angles | two angles of the sum of the degrees = 180' |
| complementay angles | two angles sum = 90' |
| theorem | a statement that must be proven before it is accepted as true |
| corollary | an inference, follows little to no proof |
| postulate | true statement, which doesn't need to be proven |
| counterexample | makes a conjecture false |
| segment addition postulate | AB+BC=AC |
| angle addition postulate | m |
| congruent angles | have the same degree measure |
| congruent segements | have the same length |
| Pythagorean Theorem | c"=a"+b" |
| perpendicular lines | form 4 right angles |
| distnace formula | d= (x"-x')" + (y"-y')" |
| midpoint | a+b/2 |
| midpoint formula | x'+x"/2 , y'+y"/2 |
| angle bisector | a ray that divides an angle into two congruent angles |
| hypotenuse | c |
| legs of a right triangle | a and b |
| perpendicular bisector | line in perpendicular |
| inductive reasoning | educated guess |