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Vocab ch 6
Area/perimeter/volume/ and pythag vocab
Question | Answer |
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Area | the number of square units needed to cover a given surface |
Circle | the set of all points in a plane that are the same distance from a given point called the center |
Circumference | the distance around a circle |
Cone | a three dimensional figure with one vertex and one circular base |
Cylinder | - a three dimensional figure with two parallel, congruent circular bases connected by a curved lateral surface |
Diameter | a line segment that passes through the center of a circle and has endpoints on the circle, or the length of that segment |
Edge | the line segment along which two faces of a polyhedron intersect |
Face | a flat surface of a polyhedron |
Hypotenuse | in a right triangle, the side opposite the right angle |
Hypotenuse | in a right triangle, the side opposite the right angle |
Lateral face | in a prism or a pyramid, a face that is not a base |
Lateral surface | - in a cylinder, the curved surface connecting the circular bases; in a cone, the curved surface that is not a base |
Leg | in a right triangle, the sides that include the right angle; in an isosceles triangle, the pair of congruent sides |
Perimeter | the distance around a polygon |
Prism | a polyhedron that has two congruent, polygon-shaped |