Geometric Transformation Vocabulary

What type of transformation slides the pre-image to a different location without turning or changing it in any way?

• Transformation

• Translation

• Orientation

• Rotation

Tags

CCSS.8.G.A.3

CCSS.HSG.CO.A.5

If the pre-image and the image have the same size and shape, then they are...

• Congruent 

• Similiar

• Different

Tags

CCSS.8.G.A.2

What type of transformation flips a figure across a line?

• Transformation

• Translation

• Reflection

• Rotation

Tags

CCSS.8.G.A.3

CCSS.HSG.CO.A.5

What type of transformation turns a figure about a fixed point?

• Translation

• Reflection

• Rotation

• Orientation 

Tags

CCSS.8.G.A.3

CCSS.HSG.CO.A.5

What transformation changes the size, but not the shape of a figure?

• Translation

• Orientation

• Dilation

• Rotation

Tags

CCSS.8.G.A.3

A transformation in which a geometric figure is flipped across a line, creating a mirror image.

• Translation

• Reflection

• Rotation

• Dilation

Tags

CCSS.8.G.A.3

CCSS.HSG.CO.A.5

The original figure prior to a transformation.

• Pre-image

• Image

Tags

CCSS.HSG.CO.A.2

The result of a transformation.

• Pre-image

• Image

Tags

CCSS.HSG.CO.A.2

A transformation in which a figure slides across the graph.

• Translation

• Rotation

• Reflection

• Dilation

Tags

CCSS.8.G.A.3

CCSS.HSG.CO.A.5

Translations, reflections and rotations are all known as ________________________.

• Geometry

• Transformations

• Congruent