Geometry I
A two-dimensional figure that can be decomposed into smaller figures such as rectangles and triangles.
What is a composite figure?
A flat surface of a 3-dimensional figure such as a prism or pyramid.
What is a face?
A number, or a variable, or a number and a variable that are multiplied together.
What is a term?
The center of a group of numbers found by putting them in order from least to greatest and selecting the one in the middle.
What is the median?
The center of a group of numbers found by adding them together and dividing by the total number of numbers int he list
What is the mean?
The mirror image produced by flipping a point or image across an axis.
What is a reflection?
The side of a right triangle that is perpendicular (90 degrees) to its base.
What is the height?
Terms that contain the same variable which is raised to the same power.
What are like terms?
The distance a number is from zero.
What is absolute value?
A number which has exactly two factors: 1 and itself.
What is a prime number?
The vertical line of the two perpendicular number lines on a coordinate plane.
What is the y-axis?
The horizontal line of the two perpendicular number lines on the coordinate plane.
What is the x-axis?
A symbol, usually a letter, that represents a number in an algebraic expression.
What is a variable?
This tells how many times a base should be multiplied times itself.
What is an exponent?
The set of all whole numbers and their opposites.
What are integers?
The first number of an ordered pair. It tells how many horizontal units a point is from the y-axis?
What is a the x-coordinate?
The second number of an ordered pair. It tells how many vertical units a point is from the x-axis.
What is the y-coordinate?
A number without a variable in an algebraic expression.
What is a constant?
This tells what value should be raised to the power of an exponent?
What is a base?
Two numbers that have a product of 1.
What are reciprocals?
The height of each lateral face of a pyramid.
What is the slant height?
A word that means to have the same measure or to have identical measurements.
What is congruent?
A number that is multiplying a variable in an algebraic expression.
What is a coefficent?
A rate where the first quantity is compared to exactly 1 unit of the second quantity.
What is a unit rate or unit ratio?
The set of numbers that include all integers and all fractions and decimals.
What are rational numbers?