Defining Quadrilaterals by their parallel sides
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Name that shape!
You draw/Symmetry
100

A shape with two pairs of parallel sides.

What is a parallelogram.

100

A quadrilateral where there are two pairs of congruent adjacent sides.

What is a kite?

100

Relationship of a rhombus to a square.

All squares are rhombuses but not all rhombuses are squares.

100


What is a kite?

100

A drawing of a quadrilateral that has both reflective symmetry and rotational symmetry.


200

A quadrilateral with only one pair of parallel sides.

What is a trapezoid

200

A trapezoid in which the nonparallel sides are congruent.

What is an isosceles trapezoid?

200

Relationship of a rectangle to a square.

All squares are rectangles but not all rectangles are squares.

200


What is a rhombus?

(What is a kite?)

200

The line that divides identical sides of a shape.

What is a line of symmetry 

300

A set of lines that never intersect

What are parallel lines?

300

A quadrilateral that has 4 right angles.

What is a rectangle?

300

Relationship of kites to rhombuses.

All rhombuses are kites but not all kites are rhombuses.

300


What is a trapezium?

300

A drawing of a trapezium.


400

Any shape that has exactly four sides

What is a quadrilateral?

400

A rhombus with 4 equal sides.

What is a square?

400

A quadrilateral that is both a rectangle and a rhombus.

What is a square?

400


What is a parallelogram?

400

When an object appears as its original image before a complete 360 degree turn

What is rotational symmetry

500

A quadrilateral with no parallel sides.

What is a trapezium?

500

A quadrilateral that has equal length sides (but not necessarily equal angles).

What is a rhombus?

500

The relationship of parallelograms to rectangles.

A rectangle is a type of parallelogram so all rectangles are parallelograms but not all parallelograms are rectangles.

500


What is a trapezoid?

500

A drawing of a parallelogram with 4 equal sides and 4 right angles.