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Name _________
acute angle
An angle measuring less than 90
degrees
acute triangle
A triangle with no interior angle
measuring 90 degrees or more
circle
A closed curve with all of its points in
one plane and the same distance from
a fixed point (the center)
cone
A 3-dimensional figure with a circular
base and a vertex EX: wizard hat, ice
cream cone
cube
A 3-dimensional figure with six square
faces EX: a box, a die
cylinder
A 3-dimensional figure with two
circular bases EX: tube
equilateral
triangle
A triangle whose sides are all the
same length
irregular
(nonregular)
polygon
A polygon whose sides are not all the
same length or whose angles are not
all congruent
isosceles
triangle
A triangle that has at least two
congruent sides
line
An infinite set of points forming a
straight path extending in two
directions
obtuse angle
An angle that measures between 90
and 180 degrees EX: Wider than the
corner of a square
obtuse triangle
A triangle whose largest angle
measures greater than 90 degrees
parallelogram
A quadrilateral with two pairs of
parallel and congruent sides
perpendicular
Lines meeting at a 90 degree angle
EX: the edges of a piece of paper run
perpendicular to form a corner
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prism
A 3-dimensional figure that has two
congruent and parallel faces that are
polygons; the remaining faces are
parallelograms
protractor
An instrument used to measure an
angle
pyramid
A 3-dimensional figure with a polygon
for a base, a vertex, and triangular
sides EX: Egyptian monument
quadrilateral
A closed figure (polygon) with four
sides and four angles
radius
A straight line segment drawn from the
center of a circle to any point on the
circle; half the length of the diameter
rectangle
A four-sided polygon with 4 right
angles
rhombus
A parallelogram with all four sides
equal in length
right angle
An angle measuring exactly 90
degrees
scalene
triangle
A triangle that has no congruent sides
sphere
A 3-dimensional figure that is round; a
set of points in space, all the same
distance from one point (the center)
EX: baseball
square
A parallelogram with four congruent
sides and four right angles
trapezoid
A quadrilateral with exactly one pair of
parallel sides
vertex/vertices
The point at which two line segments
or rays meet to form an angle EX: a
corner
x-axis
The horizontal axis on a rectangular
coordinate grid
y-axis
The vertical axis on a rectangular
coordinate grid