Geometry Vocabulary Check!!!

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What is the definition of an angle bisector?

Back

An angle bisector is a ray that divides an angle into two congruent angles.

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CCSS.HSG.CO.C.9

Front

What does it mean for two angles to be congruent?

Back

Two angles are congruent if they have the same measure.

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CCSS.8.G.A.2

Front

What is the definition of perpendicular lines?

Back

Perpendicular lines are lines that intersect at a right angle (90 degrees).

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CCSS.4.G.A.1

CCSS.HSG.CO.A.1

Front

What is a perpendicular bisector?

Back

A perpendicular bisector is a line that divides a segment into two equal parts at a right angle.

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CCSS.HSG.CO.A.1

Front

What is the Perpendicular Transversal Theorem?

Back

If a transversal is perpendicular to one of two parallel lines, then it is perpendicular to the other line as well.

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CCSS.8.G.A.5

Front

What is the definition of parallel lines?

Back

Parallel lines are lines in a plane that never meet and are always the same distance apart.

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CCSS.HSG.CO.A.1

Front

What is the definition of a midpoint?

Back

A midpoint is the point that divides a segment into two equal parts.

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CCSS.HSG.CO.A.1

Front

What is the Corresponding Angles Postulate?

Back

If two parallel lines are cut by a transversal, then each pair of corresponding angles is congruent.

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CCSS.8.G.A.5

Front

What is the Converse Alternate Interior Angle Theorem?

Back

If two lines are cut by a transversal and the alternate interior angles are congruent, then the lines are parallel.

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CCSS.8.G.A.5

Front

What is the definition of an altitude in geometry?

Back

An altitude is a perpendicular segment from a vertex to the line containing the opposite side.