Vocabulary
Geometric Properties
Similarity RULES!
Logical relationships
Quick Math
100

Word starting with "D" that describes when a new image is created using a scale factor 

What is a "Dilation"?

100

The RATIO between angles of similar figures.

What is a 1:1 ratio?  

100

The dilation equation where y is the new image length, k is the scale factor, and x is the length of the original.

What is y=kx?

100

Effect on length after dilating using a scale factor less than 1 (k<1) 

What is "it gets Smaller"?

also acceptable:  What is "it shrinks"?

100

The MATH  that proves these 2 triangles must be similar

What is 180 - (20+60)=100 so AA similarity

Also acceptable:  

What is 180 - (100+60) = 20 so AA similarity

200

DAILY DOUBLE

The word used when rewriting an If A, then B logic statement so the A and B are reversed.  

What is a "Converse"?

200

Name of the ACCEPTED RULE when adding the interior angles for any triangle

What is the Triangle Sum Theorem?

200

The relationship between angles in similar figures.

What is congruent?  

Also acceptable:  What is "a 1:1 ratio"?

200

The relationship of corresponding angles between the original and the newly dilated image.

What is "Congruent"?


200

The Proportion you could set up to solve for missing side EF.  Note --> This picture is NOT drawn to scale.  

What is  9/12 = 6/x

Also acceptable

What is 9/6 = 12/x

or What is 12/9 = x/6   or What is 6/9 = x/12

300

The point located half-way between a segment's two endpoints.

What is a "Midpoint"?

300

The RATIO between a triangle and the similar triangle created by connecting it's Midpoints. 

What is a 2:1 ratio

300

The ALGEBRAIC relationship between sides of similar figures.

What is proportional?


300

What the ORDER of the corresponding vertices (i.e. corners) when naming must be in a similarity statement.  

What is "the SAME" ?

Also acceptable:  What is "Matching"?

300

Any proportion (2 equal ratios) that could prove these two triangles are similar.

What is 4/6 = 5/7.5 ?

or What is 4/6 = 8/12?

Or What is 5/7.5=8/12?

Or any 2 of 12/8=7.5/5 or 12/8=6/4 or 6/4=7.5/5?

400
The type of equation that is made of two ratios (fractions) that are equal.

What is a "Proportion"?

400

What happens to the new image when dilating an original using a scale value that is less than 1.  

What is "It gets smaller"?

400

The number of angles required to prove triangles are similar.

What is two?

400

What the dilated length will be when using a scale factor of k=3 when the original was 4 units.  

What is "TWELVE"?

400

The scale factor that takes BC --> B'C'

What is k=1/2 ?

500

Word that describes when two lines or extensions of segments will never cross or intersect.  

What is "Parallel"?

500

Effect on length when dilating using a scale factor of k greater than 1 (k>1).  

What is "it gets Larger"?

500

The GEOMETRIC (visual) relationship between corresponding lines in a dilation 

What is Parallel?

500

DAILY DOUBLE

The algebraic relationship between corresponding line segments in similar shapes.

What is "Proportional"?

500

A pair of ratios that proves these two triangles are NOT similar

What is "4/8 is NOT equal to 7/13"?

Also acceptable;  "What is 10/19 is NOT equal to 4/8 (or 7/14)?"

Also acceptable;  "What is 8/4 is not equal to 13/7 (or 19/10)?

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