Unit 4 Lesson 2 Translations

Question 1

What is a Rigid tranformation?

Answer 1

a type of transformation that doesn’t change the size or shape of a geometric figure

Question 2

What is a transformation

Answer 2

a change in the size, position, or orientation of a geometric shape

Question 3

What is a translation

Answer 3

a transformation that changes the position of a point or shape

Question 4

What is true for translations

Answer 4

a translation, each image point is the same distance and direction from the corresponding pre-image point

Question 5

horizontal translation

Answer 5

a translation that occurs along the x
-axis (side-to-side)

Question 6

translation vector

Answer 6

a pair of numbers of the form <h, k>
; describes a translation, specifying the horizontal shift followed by the vertical shift

Question 7

vector

Answer 7

a quantity that can be represented with magnitude (size) and direction

Question 8

vertical translation

Answer 8

a translation that occurs along the y
-axis (up and down)