A | B |
complementary angles | add up to 90 degrees |
supplementary angles | add up to 180 degress |
adjacent angles | share a common side |
vertical angles | share a vertex and one side but no interior points |
acute angle | less than 90 degrees |
obtuse angle | greater than 90 but less than 180 degrees |
right angle | 90 degrees |
straight angle | 180 degrees |
obtuse triangle | has one obtuse angle |
acute triangle | has all acute angles |
right triangle | has one 90 degree angle |
scalene triangle | no sides congruent |
isosceles triangle | 2 sides and 2 angles congruent |
equilateral triangle | all sides and all angles congruent |
congruent triangles | triangles whose corresponding parts are congruent |
trapezoid | has exactly one pair of parallel sides |
parallelogram | has both pairs of sides parallel |
rectangle | a parallelogram with four right angles |
rhombus | a parallelogram with four congruent sides |
square | a parallelogram with four right angles AND four congruent sides |
triangle | a polygon with 3 sides |
quadrilateral | a polygon with 4 sides |
pentagon | a polygon with 5 sides |
hexagon | a polygon with 6 sides |
octagon | a polygon with 8 sides |
decagon | a polygon with 10 sides |