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Tessellations
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What is a tessellation?

A collection of figures that fills a plane without overlapping or leaving any gaps

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What is a fruit that creates a tessellation?

Pineapple

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A plane figure with at least three or more sides and angles
What is a polygon?
200

What is a tessellation that is made of one type of polygon(Triangle, Hexagon, Square)?

A regular tessellation

200

What are common parts of a building that can be tessellated?


Floors, Walls, and Ceilings

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The total number of degrees around a vertex in a tessellation
What is 360?
300

What is a non-regular tessellation?

A tessellation that is most often used for art, Tessellation that uses irregular polygons. 

300

What are the rules of regular and semi-regular tessellations?

1. A tessellation MUST tile a surface and be capable of going on FOREVER. 2. Tiles MUST BE regular polygons that are ALL the SAME. 3. The vertexes MUST LOOK the SAME.

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The degrees in one interior angle of a triangle
What is 60?
400

What is a tile?

A plane shape used in tiling

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What is honeycomb?

A hexagonal wax built for larvae, honey, and pollen, built by honey bees

What is honeycomb?

400
Polygons that can't be used for regular tessellations
What are polygons with more than six sides and the pentagon?
500

What are semi-regular tessellations?

Tessellations made of two or more regular polygons


What are semi-regular tessellations?

500

What is a vertex?

The point where the shapes in a tessellation meet up

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The amount of degrees left over when you try to make a regular tessellation of pentagons
What is 36?