Circles Vocabulary

What is a 2-dimensional shape made by drawing a curve that is always the same distance from a center.

• diameter

• radius

• square

• rectangle

• circle

What is the distance from the center to the circumference of a circle called?

• circle

• circumference

• radius

• diameter

• midpoint

What is the name for the distance around the edge of a circle?

• diameter

• radius

• circle

• circumference

• perimeter

What is the term used for the distance from one point on a circle through the center to another point on the circle.

• radius

• diameter

• circumference

• midpoint

• Secant
• Diameter
• Radius
• Chord

Tags

CCSS.HSG.C.A.2

the distance around a circle

• perimeter

• circumference

• radius

• diameter

Tags

CCSS.7.G.B.4

A line segment that passes through the center of a circle and has endpoint on the circles edge

• diameter

• area

• rate

• event

A line segment with one endpoint at the center of a circle and the other on the circle

• radius

• diameter

• chord

• circumference

Tags

CCSS.HSG.C.A.2

a line segment with endpoints on a circle

• chord

• radius

• circumference

• reciprocal

Look at the image above. What are the 3 ways you can write the ratio of circle to squares the picture as a RATIO?

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• 3 blue squares to 2 green circles

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Tags

CCSS.6.RP.A.1

CCSS.6.RP.A.2