Exploring Mathematics Chapters 1-8 Review Flashcards
season
due to the tilt of the earth’s axis, equal to three months
year
earth revolves around the sun once
day
earth rotates on its axis once
month
moon revolves around the earth once
week
seven days
The length of a mile in feet is
5,280
A pint is a ___ the world around.
pound
NASA’s Climate Orbiter to Mars failed because …
engineers used two different measures of force
A scruple was a standard of weight for measuring
drugs
Until 1960, the meter was considered
the distance between two scratch marks
Daniel Fahrenheit set the boiling temperature of water on his thermometer at
212 degrees
What is the main reason to have leap days?
So the calendar will match the seasons or so the calendar year will be the same length as the solar year.
a polygon with five sides
pentagon
a rectangle with four equal sides
square
a polygon with three sides and one right angle
right triangle
a quadrilateral with opposite sides parallel and equal in length
rectangle
is not a polygon
circle
a mirror of this shape will focus sunlight
parabola
all points are the same distance from the center
circle
the first part of the name means over or beyond
hyperbola
the orbit of Haley’s comet is of this shape
ellipse
The Egyptian knotted rope was used to measure out
a triangle with a right angle
Doubling the length, width, and height of a box gives it a volume
eight times as great
The sum of the _______________ of the legs of a right triangle are equal to the _______________ of the hypotenuse.
squares, square
A whispering gallery has a shape like
ellipse
The next Fibonacci number after 89 and 144 is ___.
233
The Egyptian knotted rope was used to measure out
a triangle with a right angle
Doubling the length, width, and height of a box gives it a volume
eight times as great
The sum of the _______________ of the legs of a right triangle are equal to the _______________ of the hypotenuse.
squares, square
A whispering gallery has a shape like
ellipse
The next Fibonacci number after 89 and 144 is ___.
233
The study of the properties of whole numbers is called
number theory
