Geometry Basics--Vocabulary Quiz 1.1

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Axiom or Postulate

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A statement that is accepted as true without proof

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Theorem

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A statement or conjecture that can be proven true using undefined terms, definitions, and axioms

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Synthetic Geometry

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The study of geometric figures without the use of coordinates

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Analytic Geometry

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The study of geometry using a coordinate system

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Point

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A location; it has neither shape nor size

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Line

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Made up of an infinite amount of points with no thickness or width

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Plane

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A flat surface made up of points that extends infinitely in all directions

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Space

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A boundless three dimensional set of all points that can contain lines and planes

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Collinear

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Points that lie on the same line

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Coplanar

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Points or lines that lie on the same plane