DEGREES OF SEPARATION
This kind of angle has an angle measure less than 90 degrees.
What is an acute angle?
This kind of triangle has no sides of equal length.
What is a scalene triangle?
This kind of quadrilateral is characterized by four equal sides and four equal angles.
What is a square?
This kind of polygon shares a root word with another name for the first five books of the Bible.
What is a pentagon?
(The first five books of the Bible are called the Pentateuch.)
This kind of planar transformation can also be called a flip.
What is a reflection?
The word used to describe this kind of angle can also be used to describe a correct answer
What is right?
Triangles can be classified by side lengths and by these.
What are angles?
A parallelogram is characterized by two sets of these.
This kind of polygon can be used to describe the relationship between the different persons of God.
What is a triangle?
(There are three persons of God--God, the Father; God, the Son; and God, the Holy Spirit. We refer to them collectively as the Trinity.)
This kind of transformation can also be called a turn.
What is a rotation?
The word for these angles, which are always congruent, also refers to the height that an athlete can jump.
What are vertical angles?
When arranged correctly, two congruent copies of this kind of triangle can be combined to make a rectangle.
What is a right triangle?
This kind of quadrilateral is also sometimes referred to as a diamond.
What is a rhombus?
The number of horsemen mentioned in the book of Revelation is equal to the number of sides on this regular polygon.
What is a square?
(The book of Revelation refers to four horsemen representing war, famine, disease, and death. They are often called "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse".)
A transformation where each point in a figure is moved the same amount in the same direction is called this.
What is a translation?
These angles are congruent when two parallel lines are intersected by a third line
What are corresponding angles?
This kind of triangle is characterized by a single angle that is greater than 90 degrees.
What is an obtuse triangle?
This kind of quadrilateral has only one set of parallel sides.
What is a trapezoid?
The number of sides on this polygon is equal to the number of tribes of Israel.
What is a dodecagon?
(There are 12 tribes of Israel--11 full tribes and 2 half tribes).
A flip involves mirroring each point in a figure across this kind of line.
What is a line of reflection?
This kind of angle isn't buttering you up; when added to another angle, their measures add up to 90 degrees.
What is a complementary angle?
This kind of triangle is often used in engineering because they resist gravitational and lateral forces equally in all directions.
What are equilateral triangles?
This word, which is a synonym for "quadrilateral", comes from a Greek word meaning "four"
What is a tetragon?
The number of days in which God created the earth is the same as the number of sides on this polygon.
What is a hexagon?
(Creation was finished in six days; God rested on the seventh.)
A turn involves moving a figure around this.
What is the center of rotation?