geometry 2 5th
Terms
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- turns=rotations
- movement of a figure around a fixed point
- rhombus
-
quadrilateral whose sides
are all the same length - scalene triangle
- triangle with sides of three different lengths; no angles have the same measure
- slides
- movement of a figure along a straight line
- triangle
- polygon with 3 sides and 3 angles
- square
- rectangle with all sides equal
- sphere
- set of all points in space that are a given distance from a given point; point is center, distance is radius
- trapezoid
- quadrilateral with exactly one pair of parallel sides
- triangular prism
- a prism with triangular bases
- triangular pyramid
- pyramid with a triangular base
- rectangular pyramid
- pyramid with a rectangular base
- volume
- the amount of space inside a 3-dimensional object; usually measured in cubic units
- degrees Celsius
- standard unit for temperature in metric system
- 3-dimensional
- shapes which have length, width and thickness; these shapes take up volume
- 2-dimensional
- figures which have length and width, but do not have any thickness and do not take up any volume
- degrees Fahrenheit
- standard unit of temperature in the U.S. Customary system
- chord
- line segment connecting 2 points of a circle
- diagonals
- line segment, other than a side, that connects 2 vertices of a polygon
- scale drawing
- drawing of an object or region in which all parts are drawn to the same scale
- vertex/vertices
- point where the rays of an angle, the sides of a polygon, or the edges of a polyhedron meet