morgan's geometry vocabulary & things
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point | an exact location on a plane surface
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line | goes on forever in both directions, 180 degrees
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line segment | a section of a line with two end points
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ray | goes on forever in one direction, has one end point
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parallel lines | lines that are the same distance apart and they will never intersect
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perpendicular lines | 2 lines that intersect and form 4 right angles
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angles | geometric shapes that are formed wherever 2 rays share a common end point
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right angle | exactly 90 degrees
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acute angle | smaller than a right angle
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obtuse angle | larger than a right angle, smaller than a line
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strait angle | exactly 180 degrees
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congruent | figures that have the same shape and size, all sides and angles are equal
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polygon | a closed figure made of line segments
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quadrilateral | four sided polygon, includes : rectangle, square, rhombus, parallelogram, and trapezoid
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rhombus | a parallelogram with four equal sides
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square | a parallelogram with four equal sides and four right angles
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rectangle | 4 sides, 4 right angles, opposite sides are equal and parallel
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trapezoid | 4 sided figure, exactly one pair of parallel lines
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pentagon | 5 sided polygon
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hexagon | 6 sided polygon
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heptagon | 7 sided polygon
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octagon | 8 sided polygon
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decagon | 10 sided polygon
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line of symmetry | a line that divides a figure into 2 mirror images
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vertex or vertices | a point were line segments meet, it is called vertices when there are more than one point
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right triangle | a right triangle has exactly one right angle
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acute triangle | acute triangles have 3 acute angles
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obtuse triangle | an obtuse triangle has exactly one obtuse angle
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