Relationships in triangles vocab

Question 1

when 3 or more lines intercept at on point

Answer 1

concurrent lines

Question 2

a circle containing a triangle whose points are touching the circle

Answer 2

circumscribed

Question 3

a circle in side of a triangle with each side of the triangle touching at one point

Answer 3

inscribed

Question 4

point of concurrency

Answer 4

the point at which concurrent lines met

Question 5

point of concurrency for perpendicular biscetor

Answer 5

circumcenter

Question 6

the perpendicular bisectors of the sides of the triangle are concurrent at the point equidistant from the vertices

Answer 6

circumcenter theorem

Question 7

point of concurrency for angle bisectors

Answer 7

incenter

Question 8

equidistance from sides of triangle

Answer 8

incenter

Question 9

equisistance from the vertices

Answer 9

circumcenter

Question 10

must start at a vertices and be perpendicular to the opposite side

Answer 10

altitude of a triangle

Question 11

point of conncurent for altitudes

Answer 11

orthocenter

Question 12

in an obtuse tri where is the orthocenter

Answer 12

outside

Question 13

in a rt tri where is the orthocenter

Answer 13

where the legs meet

Question 14

in an acute tri where is the ortocenter

Answer 14

inside

Question 15

a line that comes from the vertices and goes to the mp of the opposite side

Answer 15

median

Question 16

point of concurrency for median

Answer 16

centroid

Question 17

what does the centriod mean

Answer 17

it breaks the median up into a ratio of 2:1