Vocabulary Quiz - Transformations

Changes the size, shape, position, or orientation of a figure

• Transformation

• Vector

• Image

• Congruent

Gives the rule for a translation

• Dilation

• Rotation

• Vector

• Translation

Enlarges or reduces a figure proportionally

• Scale Factor

• Rigid Motion

• Isometry

• Dilation

A transformation that moves all the points of a pre-image the same distance in a specific direction

• Translation

• Vector

• Glide Reflection

• Rigid Motion

A transformation that produces a congruent figure

• Rotation

• Reflection

• Pre-image

• Rigid Motion

The fixed point a figure is rotated about

• Center of Rotation (Direction)

• Line of Reflection

• Similar

• Glide Reflection

The original figure of the transformation

• Isometry

• Image

• Pre-image

• Composition of Transformations

When two or more transformations are applied, each to the previous image.

• Isometry

• Composition of Transformations

• Similarity Transformation

• Line of Reflection

The composition of a translation followed by a reflection in a line parallel to the translation vector

• Scale Factor

• Transformation

• Similar

• Glide Reflection

Two geometric figures that have the same shape but not necessarily the same size

• Similar

• Congruent

• Isometry

• Reflection