Triangle Congruence Vocabulary

A postulate to prove to triangles congruent that proves that there are two congruent angles and one congruent, non-included, side.

• SSS

• SAS

• ASA

• AAS

Tags

CCSS.HSG.SRT.B.5

A postulate to prove to triangles congruent that proves that there are two congruent angles and one congruent included side.

• SSS

• SAS

• ASA

• AAS

Tags

CCSS.HSG.SRT.B.5

A a pair of angles that are outside the two parallel lines but on either side of the transversal.

• Alternate Interior Angles

• Alternate Exterior Angles

• Corresponding Angles

• Vertical Angles

Tags

CCSS.8.G.A.5

A a pair of angles that are inside of the two parallel lines but on either side of the transversal.

• Alternate Interior Angles

• Alternate Exterior Angles

• Corresponding Angles

• Vertical Angles

Tags

CCSS.8.G.A.5

A line that splits an angle into two equal angles.

• Vertical Angles

• Congruent Angles

• Corresponding Angles

• Angle Bisector

Tags

CCSS.HSG.CO.A.1

CCSS.4.G.A.1

A pair of exterior angles that lie on the same side of the transversal.

• Consecutive (same side) exterior angles

• Consecutive (same side) interior angles

• Corresponding Angles

• Congruent Angles

Tags

CCSS.8.G.A.5

A pair of angles on one side of the transversal but inside the two parallel lines.

• Consecutive (same side) exterior angles

• Consecutive (same side) interior angles

• Corresponding Angles

• Congruent Angles

Tags

CCSS.8.G.A.5

The angles which are formed at corresponding corners when two parallel lines are intersected by a transversal.

• Congruent Angles

• Corresponding Angles

• Consecutive Exterior Angles

• Alternate Exterior Angles

Tags

CCSS.8.G.A.5

Postulate that states that if two or more triangles are congruent, then their corresponding angles and sides are congruent as well.

• CPCTC

• Congruent Triangles

• SSS

• SAS

Tags

CCSS.HSG.CO.B.7

A postulate that states that two right triangles are congruent if the hypotenuse and one leg of one right triangle are congruent to the other right triangle's hypotenuse and leg side.

• SSS

• SAS

• ASA

• HL

Tags

CCSS.HSG.SRT.B.5