Coordinate Plane Vocabulary
Ordered Pairs on a Coordinate Plane
Coordinate Plane: Plotting Points
Rational Numbers
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
The X-coordinate tell us to move ______ or _______
Left or right
100
What is the opposite of -4.3?
4.3
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
What is the distance between the following points?
(-9, 4) and (-9, -2)
6 units
200
What is |-3|?
What is 3?
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
If we have a positive y coordinate then we move ______
Up
300
Order these numbers from greatest to least:
-5, 6 1/2, -6, -5.2
6 1/2, -5, -5.2, -6
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
Describe the steps taken to plot the point (-4,5)
Move to the left four and up 5
400
What two integers is the number -9.5 between?
-9 and -10
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
What is the distance between these two points?
(4.2, 10) and (1.2, 10)
3 units
500
What is an example of an ordered pair in quadrant IV?
(+, -)