Coordinate Plane Vocabulary

What is the name of the point (0, 0) on the coordinate plane?

• origin

• vertex

• apex

• center

What is the point where the x-axis and y-axis meet?

• origin

• intersection

• center

• midpoint

What is the term for the distance from the origin to a point on the y-axis?

• y-coordinate

• x-coordinate

• origin distance

• y-intercept

What is the term for a straight line that goes left and right on the coordinate plane?

• vertical line

• diagonal line

• horizontal line

• perpendicular line

How many quadrants are there in a coordinate plane?

• Two

• Three

• Four

• Five

In the ordered pair (6, 4), do you go to the right 6 and then down 4?

• True

• False

• Up 4 and then right 6

• Down 6 and then right 4

What is the up-down or vertical number line called?

• x-axis

• y-axis

• z-axis

• t-axis

What is the term for the distance from the origin to a point on the x-axis?

• x-coordinate

• y-coordinate

• origin distance

• x-axis length

What is the term for a straight line that goes up and down on the coordinate plane?

• horizontal line

• diagonal line

• vertical line

• curved line

In the ordered pair (3, 6), which number is the y-coordinate?

• 3

• 4

• 5

• 6