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Geometry 101
geometry vocabulary
Question | Answer |
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What is an angle bisector? | a ray that divides a given angle into two congruent angles, each half the size of the given angle |
What are adjacent angles? | two angles that share a vertex and a side, but no points in their interiors |
What is a decagon? | a polygon with ten sides |
What is a midpoint? | the midpoint of a segment halfway between two points |
What are perpendicular bisectors? | a line, segment, or ray that is perpendicular to a segment at its midpoint |
What is a plane? | a flat surface that has no thickness and extends without end in the direction of all the lines it contains |
What is a regular polygon? | all sides and angles are congruent |
What is a rhombus? | parallelogram with 4 congruent sides |
What is a segment bisector? | a line, segment, or ray that separates a segment into two congruent segments |
What is a skew line? | lines in space that do not intersect and are not parallel. they do not lie in the same plane. skew segments must be parts of skew lines. |
What is a supplementary angle? | two angles whose measures add up to 180 degrees |
What is a complementary angle? | two angles that add up to 90 degrees |