Scale Factor
Vocabulary
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Corresponding Sides & Angles
Battles
100

What is the scale factor from the small fry to the large fry?


3

100

What is the ratio of the length in a drawing (or model) to the length on the real thing?

Scale Factor

100

If the scale factor is 4, what is the measurement of x?

24m

100

The side CB corresponds to the side ___

ZY

100

This World War II battle of 1942 was teh first major Allied land offesive against the Empire of Japan in the Pacific Theater

The Battle of Guadalcanal

200

Using the scale factor, what is the value of x? 



20

200

What shows a real object with accurate sizes reduced or enlarged by a certain amount?

Scaled Drawing

200

The value of the unknown side length x is ...

7

200

The side AB corresponds to the side _______

XY

200

In which naval battle of 1942, did the US Navy sink four Japanese aircraft carriers?

Battle of Midway

300

What is the Scale Factor from triangle DEF to triangle D'E'F'?


1.5cm

300

What is a physical model which is geometrically similar to an object?

Scale Model

300

The value of the unknown side length, ? is ...

?=20

300

Which angle corresponds with ∠X?

∠E

300

This massive weedk-long joint offensive by the US Either Air Force and British RAF targeted the German aircraft manufacturing industry ahead of D-Day

"Big Week" (1944)

400

What is the Scale Factor from triangle ABC to triangle DEF?

1/2

400

The constant value (often written k) relating amounts that rise or fall uniformly together.  It is the ratio of the amounts y and x: k=y/x

Constant of Proportionality

400

The value of the unknown side length ? is ...

 ? = 7.2

400

Mr. Lloyd wants to build a doll house for his daughter that is proportional to their house. He measured the living room of his house and it is 12 ft by 16 feet. What will be the dimensions of the doll house living room if every foot of the actual house is equal to one half inch in the doll house?

6 inches by 8 inches

400

What was the first military clash of the revolutionary war in Massachusetts were colonial militia and forced British troops to retreat. 

Lexington and Concord (Apr 1775)

500

A flagpole and a model flag pole have a scale factor of 1 in.= 4 ft. If the model pole measures 12 inches, how tall is the pole in feet?

48ft

500

What is a type of proportionality in which one quantity directly varies with respect to a change in another quantity, by the same factor?

Direct Variation

500

Use the similar triangles below to find the height of the tree.

44ft

500

What are corresponding angles or side measures on the original compared to the scaled model are...?

the same (equivalent or equal)

500

The Battle of Abu-Ageila, Battle of Ammunition Hill, and the Golden Heights campaign, we're all battles by this country during war in 1967?

Israel; Six-Day War

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