Mid Year Vocabulary Practice

The side opposite the right angle of a triangle is the _____________.

• leg

• hypotenuse

• base

If a quadrilateral is a parallelogram then its opposite angles are ________.

• congruent

• supplementary

• both of these

A(n) _______ is a segment of a triangle whose endpoints are a vertex and midpoint of the side opposite the vertex.

• altitude

• median

• midsegment

A(n) ___________ is  a quadrilateral with both pairs of opposite sides parallel.

• kite

• trapezoid

• parallelogram

Points that lie on the same line are _____________.

• collinear

• congruent

• complementary

The _______ of a triangle is a perpendicular segment from a vertex to the line containing the side opposite the vertex.

• altitude

• median

• midsegment

A(n) _____________ is a quadrilateral with exactly one pair of parallel sides.

• trapezoid

• square

• quadrilateral

A statement that you prove true is a _______________.

• definition

• theorem

• converse

A(n) ________________is a parallelogram with four congruent sides.

• rhombus

• trapezoid

• quadrilateral

_____________ lines are lines that intersect and form right angles.

• parallel

• perpendicular

• skew