Chapter 5 Vocabulary Geometry

Which of the following segments would be most useful when finding the area of a triangle?

• Perpendicular Bisector

• Angle Bisector

• Median

• Altitude

Which of the following points of concurrency can the 1/3 :2/3 ratio be applied?

• Circumcenter

• Incenter

• Centroid

• Orthocenter

When 3 or more lines intersect at a common point, the lines are called __________________.

• Perpendicular lines

• Concurrent lines

• Parallel lines

• Perpendicular bisectors

The length of the perpendicular segment from the point to the line.

• Distance from a point to a line

• Circumcenter

• Point of concurrency

• Median

The point where concurrent lines intersect is called the ______________________.

• Orthocenter

• Centroid

• Intersection

• Point of concurrency

A ___________________ is a segment whose endpoints are a vertex and the midpoint of the opposite side.

• Centroid

• Median of a triangle

• Orthocenter

• Altitude

In a triangle, the point of concurrency of the medians is the _______________.

• Median

• Orthocenter

• Centroid

• Segment bisector

The perpendicular segment from a vertex to the line containing the opposite side.

• Median of a triangle

• Midpoint

• Orthocenter

• Altitude of a triangle

The lines containing the altitudes of a triangle are concurrent at the __________________________________________.

• Orthocenter of the triangle

• Centroid

• Altitude of a triangle

• Median of a triangle

• vertical

• adjacent

• linear pair

• complimentary

• supplementary