Circles
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Math trivia
100

The set of all the points that are located at a fixed distance away from a fixed point.

What is a Circle

100

A transformation that moves a figure from one location to another

What is a translation.

100

A closed three dimensional space that is made up of polygons.

What is a polyhedron.

100

This shape has a pair of parallel, congruent bases, where the bases are circles.

What is a right circular cylinder.

100

Greek philosopher whom we often credit with the formula that allows us to calculate missing sides of right triangles.

Who is Pythagoras.

200

A line that cuts across a circle at two points.

What is a secant.

200

A figure in its original location and orientation before its transformation.

What is a pre-image.

200

A two dimensional flattened out version of a polyhedron or three dimensional shape.

What is a net.

200

The volume of a right circular cylinder.

What is V = pi*r2*h

200

Man often thought of as the father of geometry.

Who is Euclid.

300

The equation of a circle at the origin.

x2 + y2 = r2

300

Isometric transformations preserve this.

What is distance or length.

300

A polyhedron that has a pair of parallel congruent faces of any shape, and whose other faces are parallelograms.

What is a prism.

300

The surface area of a sphere is equal to this many areas of a circle of the same radius.

What is 4 areas.

300

French mathematician and philosopher who merged geometry with algebra.

Who is Rene Descartes.

400

The orientation of a radius drawn to the point of tangency of a line tangent to the circle.

What is perpendicular.

400

The amount by which a figure is expanded or contracted in a dilation.

What is the scale factor.

400

The distance from the apex of a pyramid to the midpoint of the side of the base.

What is the slant height.

400

The process where we change the size of a figure without changing its shape.

What is dilation.

400

Greek mathematician who derived the area and volume of a sphere.

Who is Archimedes of Syracuse.

500

The measure of a secant-secant angle, a secant-tangent angle, or a tangent-tangent angle (vertex outside the circle) is equal to?

One-half the difference of the measures of the intercepted arcs.

500

A negative scale factor indicates a rotation by?

What is 180 degrees.

500

The diagonal of a right rectangular prism can be found by this equation.

What is d = (l2 + w2 + h2)1/2


500

In a cyclic quadrilateral, opposite angles are.

What is supplementary.

500

Greek mathematician who used similar triangles to determine the height of the Great Pyramid and who we attribute the theorem relating triangles inscribed in a semicircle.

Who was Thales of Miletus