Geometry Basics

What is a point?

• Something that connects two points

• a single location in space

• extends infinitely in both directions

• starts at a point and extends continuously in one direction

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CCSS.HSG.CO.A.1

What is a line segment?

• Something that connects two points

• a single location in space

• extends infinitely in both directions

• starts at a point and extends continuously in one direction

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CCSS.HSG.CO.A.1

What is a line?

• Something that connects two points

• a single location in space

• extends infinitely in both directions

• starts at a point and extends continuously in one direction

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CCSS.4.G.A.1

What is a ray?

• Something that connects two points

• a single location in space

• extends infinitely in both directions

• starts at a point and extends continuously in one direction

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CCSS.4.G.A.1

What is an angle?

• Formed when a pair of lines intersect at a right angle

• Two lines that never intersect

• forms between two rays or line segments that share a common endpoint

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CCSS.HSG.CO.A.1

What are perpendicular lines?

• Formed when a pair of lines intersect at a right angle

• Two lines that never intersect

• forms between two rays or line segments that share a common endpoint

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CCSS.HSG.CO.A.1

CCSS.4.G.A.1

What are parallel lines?

• Formed when a pair of lines intersect at a right angle

• Two lines that never intersect

• forms between two rays or line segments that share a common endpoint

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CCSS.HSG.CO.A.1