Identifying Points on a Coordinate Plane

What is an ordered pair?

• a set of numbers used to locate a point on the coordinate plane

• the vertical number line

• a number that corresponds to a number on the y-axis

• a point where the numbers intersect

Ordered pair (-4, -4) would lead you to which plot point?

• H

• L

• I

• K

What point is at (-3,3)?

• F

• H

• J

• C

In what axis or quadrant would I expect to find point F?

• y-axis

• 1

• x-axis

• 4

What is the origin?

• The point furthest away from the center of the coordinate plane

• The four regions of a coordinate plane

• the x-axis

• Where the x-axis and y-axis intersect

Which quadrant or axis would I find point A?

• x-axis

• y-axis

• quadrant 1

• quadrant 2

The vertical number line is called the __________?

• x-coordinate

• x-axis

• y-axis

• y-coordinate

The horizontal number line is called the _____________?

• y-axis

• y-coordinate

• x-axis

• x-coordinate

When plotting points in a coordinate plane, which directions should you go first?

• left or right

• up or down

• left

• up

In the ordered pair, (7, -7), first I would move ____ then ____.

• Left, Down

• Left, Up

• Right , Up

• Right , Down