Parallel Lines Cut by a Transversal - Vocabulary

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Same Side Interior Angles: Angles that are inside parallel lines on the same side of the transversal; they are supplementary.

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True

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CCSS.8.G.A.5

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Alternate Exterior Angles are outside the parallel lines, they are diagonal from each other and are congruent.

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True

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CCSS.8.G.A.5

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Formed when two lines intersect, known as "opposite angles"; congruent

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Vertical Angles

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CCSS.7.G.B.5

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Same position on the parallel lines in relation to the transversal; Same position on the figure; congruent

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Corresponding Angles

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CCSS.8.G.A.5

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Inside the parallel lines; Opposite sides of the transversal; they are diagonal (non adjacent) from each other; congruent

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alternate interior angles

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CCSS.8.G.A.5

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Two lines in the same place that never intersect

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Parallel

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CCSS.4.G.A.1

CCSS.HSG.CO.A.1

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A line that intersects two or more lines

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Transversal

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CCSS.HSG.CO.A.1

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Two lines that intersect to form four right angles

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Perpendicular

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CCSS.4.G.A.1

CCSS.HSG.CO.A.1

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Outside the parallel lines; same side of the transversal; supplementary

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Same Side Exterior Angles

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CCSS.8.G.A.5

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Two angles whose sum is 180 degrees

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Supplementary

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CCSS.7.G.B.5