GEOMETRY CHAPTER 1

Who is considered the "Father of Geometry"?

• Plato

• Socrates

• Ptolemy Soter I

• Euclid

Who said, "There is no royal road to geometry."

• Stalin

• Henry VIII of England

• Euclid

• Confucius

A line is represented by a straight path that extends in two opposite directions without end and has no thickness. A line contains ____________________many points.

• infinitely

• a great many

• very

• too

A ________________ indicates a location and has no size.

A plane is represented by a _________ surface that extends without end and has no thickness. A plane contains ______________ many _____________.

• flat, many, triangles

• bumpy, a great, goats

• flat, infinitely, lines

• curved, infinitely, points

A ________________ is a part of a line that consists of two endpoints and all points between them.

• segment

• plane

• angle

• polar bear

This part of a line consists of one endpoint and all the points of the line on one side of the endpoint.

• postulate

• segment

• plane

• ray

When you have two or more geometric figures, their __________________ is the set of points the figures have in common.

• axiom

• intersection

• angle

• ray

What is the definition of geometry?

• The study of rectangles.

• The branch of mathematics concerned with the shapes

• The branch of mathematics concerned with the properties and relations of points, lines, surfaces, solids and higher dimensional analogs.

• The part of mathematics in which letters and other general symbols are used to represent numbers and quantities in formulae and equations.

What is a postulate?

• accepted statement of fact

• something used to dig holes

• a sore on the skin

• a plant similar to the gimpy gimpy plant in Australia