Geometry Semester(vocab) Flashcards

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What is the base of a triangle?

A

The bottom most line adjacent to the leg

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What is the circumcenter of a triangle?

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Point of concurrency of the perpendicular bisectors of the side of the triangle

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What is the incenter of a triangle?

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Point of concurrency with the angle bisectors of a triangle

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What is an inverse of a conditional?

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Ex. Original- “If I am I hamster, then I have fur.”

Inverse- “If I am not a hamster, then I do not have fur.”

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What is the orthocenter of a triangle?

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Point of concurrency of lines that contain the altitudes of a triangle

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What is the centroid of a triangle?

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Point of concurrency of the medians of a triangle

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What is the hypotenuse of a triangle?

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The longest line of a triangle

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What is the median of a triangle?

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Segment that has its endpoint at a vertex of the triangle and its midpoint of the opposite side

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What is the altitude of a triangle?

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Perpendicular segment from a vertex to the line containing the opposite side that vertex

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What is a transversal?

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Line that intersects two or more lines at distinct points

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What are parallel lines?

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Lines that are the same distance, don’t intersect, and are perfectly aligned

Ex. ___________
___________

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What are corresponding angles?

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Lie on the same side of a transversal and are in the same positions

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What are interior and exterior angles?

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Interior- lie on the same side of the transversal and in the inside
(Alternate)- lie on the opposite sides of the transversal and are in the inside/outside(applies to both types of angles)
Exterior- lie on the same side of the transversal and are on the outside

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What is a skew line?

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Lines that don’t lie on the same plane

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What are parallel planes?

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Plants that don’t intersect

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What is the converse?

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Statement that reverses both the hypothesis and the conclusion of the original statement