Coordinate Vocabulary
The horizontal axis in a coordinate plane.
What is the x-axis?
The quadrant where both x and y are positive.
What is Quadrant I
The coordinates of a point located 3 units to the right of the origin and 2 units up.
(3,2)
The term for the ratio of the rise to the run between any two points on a line.
What is slope?
The equation form y = mx + b represents what type of equation?
What is the equation of a line?
The vertical axis in a coordinate plane.
What is the y-axis?
The quadrant where x is negative and y is positive.
What is Quadrant II?
The action of drawing a point on the coordinate plane.
What is plotting?
The slope of a horizontal line.
What is 0?
The term for the 'b' in the equation y = mx + b.
What is y-intercept?
The point where the x-axis and y-axis intersect.
What is the origin?
The quadrant where both x and y are negative.
What is Quadrant III?
The coordinates of a point located 4 units left of the origin and 6 units down.
What is (-4, -6)?
The slope of a vertical line.
What is undefined?
The term for the 'm' in the equation y = mx + b.
What is slope?
The horizontal and vertical lines that divide the plane into four quadrants.
What are the axes?
The quadrant where x is positive and y is negative.
What is Quadrant IV?
The coordinates of a point that is 0 units away from the origin on both axes.
What is (0, 0)?
The slope of a line passing through points (1, 2) and (3, 4).
What is 1?
Type of line equation when the slope is zero.
What is y = b, a horizontal line?
The position of a point in the form (x, y).
What is a coordinate pair?
The condition under which a point lies exactly on an axis.
What is when either the x-coordinate or y-coordinate is zero?
The coordinates of a point that is 0 units away from the origin on both axes.
What is (0, 0)?
The formula used to find the slope between two points (x1, y1) and (x2, y2).
What is (y2-y1) divided by (x2-x1)?
The standard form equation of a line, Ax + By = C, can also be rearranged to which form?
What is slope-intercept form, y = mx + b?