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Math Topic 16 Vocabulary

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Pointan exact location in space
Linea straight path of points that goes on and on in two directions
Planean endless flat surface
Parallel lineslines that never intersect
Intersecting Lineslines that pass through the same point
Perpendicular Lineslines that form right angles
Line segmenta part of a line with two endpoints
Raya part of a line that has one endpoint and continues forever in one direction
Anglea figure that is formed by two rays that have the same endpoint
Right anglean angle that is 90 degrees
Acute anglean angle that is less than a right angle
Obtuse anglean angle that is more than a right angle but less than a straight line
Straight anglean angle that forms a straight line
Degreethe unit of measure for an angle
Unit anglean angle that cuts off 1/360 of a cirlce and measures 1 degree
Protractora tool that is used to measure angles
Polygona close plane figure made up of line segments
Sidea line segment that is part of a polygon
Vertexthe point where two sides of a polygon meet
Trianglea 3-sided polygon
Quadrilaterala 4-sided polygon
Pentagona 5-sided polygon
Hexagona 6-sided polygon
Octagonan 8-sided polygon
Equilateral Trianglea traingle with 3 equal sides
Isosceles trianglea triangle with 2 equal sides
Scalene trianglea triangle with no equal sides
Right trianglea triangle with one right angle
Acute trianglea triangle with all acute angles
Obtuse trianglea triangle with one obtuse angle
Rhombusa quadrilateral with opposite sides that are parallel and all sides equal in lenght
Trapezoida quadrilateral with only one pair of parallel lines
Parallelograma quadrilateral that has 2 pairs of parallel lines
Rectanglea quadrilateral with 4 right angles
Squarea quardrilateral with 4 equal sides and 4 right angles
Symmetricwhen a shape can be folded on a line to form two equal halves that fit on top of each other
Line of symmetrythe fold in a symmetric shape



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