Circle Vocabulary
Tangent Properties
Chord Properties
Problems
Ms. Taylor
100

A segment whose endpoints lie on a circle.

What is a chord?

100

A line that only touches the circle at one point.

What is a Tangent?

100
A line that goes from one side of a circle to the other side of a circle.
What is a Chord?
100

Four tangents to a circle make this figure when they are ninety degrees to each other.

What is a square?

100
How many siblings does Ms. Taylor have?

2

200

An angle with endpoints and located on a circle's circumference and vertex located at the circle's center

What is a central angle?

200
The interior angles of a triangle add up to this.

180

200
The radius does this to a chord when they are perpendicular.
What is bisect?
200

What is the measurement of angle A?

What is 33 degrees?

200

Does Ms. Taylor drink coffee or tea?

Tea

300

A straight line that goes from one side of the circle to the other side of the circle through the center.

What is a Diameter?

300

A tangent and a radius of a circle make this type of angle at the point of tangency.

What is a right angle (90 degree angle)?

300

The size of the angle between a radius and a chord, when the chord is bisected.

What is ninety degrees?

300

Water is flowing through a pipe with radius 14 cm. The maximum depth of the water is 9 cm. This is the width of the surface of the water.

What is 26.2 cm?

300

How many years has Ms. Taylor been a teacher?

6, going on 7

400

A straight line that goes from the center of the circle to edge of the circle.

What is a radius?

400

If the length from AC is 15 cm. What is the length of line segment BC?

What is 15 cm?

400

What is the length of line segment x? 

What is 9?

400

A rectangle is inscribed in a circle with radius 7 cm. The length of the rectangle is 12 cm. This is the width of the rectangle.

What is 7.2 cm?

400

What is Ms. Taylor's middle name?

Gayle

500

The point where the tangent and a circle intersect is called this.

What is a point of tangency?

500

What is the measurement of the radius of the circle? 

What is 13.3?

500
If you were to draw two different chords and bisect them, the two bisectors would intersect at this point.
What is the center (origin) of the circle?
500

A spherical fish bowl has diameter 26 cm. The surface of the water in the bowl is a circle with diameter 20 cm. The maximum depth of the water is this.

What is 21.3 cm or 4.7 cm? 

The answer depends on whether you believe the water in the fishbowl was filled above or below the halfway mark. 

500

What month is Ms. Taylor's birthday?

September