Coordinate Plane Vocabulary
Ordered Pairs on a Coordinate Plane
Coordinate Plane - Plotting
Coordinate Plane: Distance
Misc
100
What is formed by the intersection of a horizontal number line and a vertical number line?
Coordinate Plane
100
Where is Point C?
(-2,-4)
100
Plot (-3, 8)
What is
100
The X-coordinate tell us to move ______ or _______
Left or right
100
Who helped invent/create the coordinate plane?
Who is Rene Descartes?
200
THIS vocabulary word means the distance from zero that a number is on a number line.
Absolute value
200
What is the x coordinate for point B?
-3
200
Plot (5, -4)
What is
200
What is the distance between the following points?
(-9, 4) and (-9, -2)
6 units
200
What did the coordinate plane help combine?
What is geometry and algebra?
300
True or false: when you're traveling on the y-axis, you're going vertical.
true
300
What Quadrant is Point D in?
Point D is in Quadrant 4
300
Plot (-9, -6)
What is
300
If we have a positive y coordinate then we move ______
Up
300
The coordinate plane laid the foundation for?
What is calculus?
400
The correct way to write an ordered pair is ( , )
(x,y)
400
What quadrant is point A in?
Point A is in Quadrant 1
400
Starting at (4, -3), if you move left 4 units and up 2 units, what point do you land on? and in what quadrant?
What is y - axis?
400
Describe the steps taken to plot the point (-4,5)
Move to the left four and up 5
400
These are things that the coordinate plane helped create.
What is GPS, maps, computer graphics, city planning, etc.
500
True or false, and defend your answer: If the x-value is -4 we move down 4 units from the origin.
False: We move to the left 4 units from the origin.
500
What is the coordinate of point E and what do we call this?
(0,0) and the Origin
500
A town is mapped on a coordinate plane with the library located at the origin. The post office is 6 blocks north and 3 miles west of the library. If the fire station is 8 blocks south and 2 blocks east of the post office, write the location of the fire station as an ordered pair and the quadrant.
What is (-1, -2) in quadrant III?
500
What is the distance between these two points?
(4.2, 10) and (1.2, 10)
3 units
500
This was Descartes idea.
What is "numbers can describe positions in space"?