Geometric Shapes
Define quadrilateral?
What is a shape that has four sides.?
Define a line segment.
What is a line that connects two points?
When writing an equation, an unknown variable is represented by this letter.
What is an x?
Define a right angle.
What is an angle that measures exactly ninety degrees?
Define parallel lines.
What are two lines with equal space between them without crossing each other?
Define a triangle.
What is a shape that has three sides?
Define a vertex.
What is the point at the tip of each corner of a polygon?
Sophie is 5 feet shorter than twice Tom's. Tom's height is unknown. Sophie and Tom's height is written like this.
Sophie: What is 2x-5
Tom: What is x.
Define an acute angle.
What is an angle that measures less than ninety degrees?
Define a transversal line.
What is a line that crosses two parallel lines and creates four corner angles that are identical to the four corner angles of another intersection point?
Define pentagon.
What is a shape that has five equal sides?
Define congruency or congruent.
What is the relationship between the two objects where they are equal or the same size and shape.?
Five thousand two hundred eighty feet is equivalent to this.
What is a mile?
Define an obtuse angle.
What is an angle that measures more than ninety degrees?
By doing this, you can find the unknown degree of an angle that is supplementary to another angle of seventy degrees.
What is subtracting 70 degrees from 180 degrees?
Define an octagon.
What is a shape with eight equal sides?
Define collinear.
What is when points lie within a line segment?
Thirty-six inches is equivalent to this.
What is a yard?
Define perpendicular.
What is when two lines intersect and form four equal complementary angles?
By doing this, you can find the unknown degree of an angle that is complementary to another angle of forty degrees.
What is subtracting 40 degrees from 90 degrees?
Define a polygon.
What is a shape with three or more sides where the lines do not cross each other.?
Define a quadratic formula.
What is a formula used when an equation can not be factored?
Bill is 3 inches taller than three times Charles. Charles's height is unknown. The equation is written like this.
Bill: What is 3x +3?
Charles: What is x?
Define a supplementary angle.
What is when two angles are placed back-to-back to form a straight angle of one hundred eighty degrees?
When two angles are directly across from each other's vertex, those angles are transversal. So, the degrees are said to be this.
What is equivalent or equal?