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10th Grade
07/25/2012

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Acute

    

    

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An angle whose measure is less than 90°

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Obtuse
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An angle whose measure is greater than 90° and less than 180°
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Right Angle

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An angle whose measure is exactly 90°
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Straight Angle

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An angle whose measure is exactly 180° - a straight line
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Line

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A long, narrow mark or band
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Points

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A precise location or place on a plane. Usually represented by a dot.
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Rays

 

 

 

 

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A portion of a line which starts at a point and goes off in a particular direction to infinity
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Coplanar
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Lying in the same plane
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collinear
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A set of dots that lie in a straight line.
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congruent
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Equal in size and shape
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Complimentary
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Two things are complementary when they add up to a 90 degree angle.
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Supplementary
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two things are supplementary when they add up to 180 degrees
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Angle Bisector
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bisection is the division of something into two equal or congruent parts, usually by a line
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Vertical angles
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Each of the pairs of opposite angles made by two intersecting lines.
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Adjacent Angles
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Two angles that share a common side and a common Vertex, but do not overlap
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Angle Addition Postulate
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Angle Addition Postulate states that if a point S lies in the interior of ∠PQR, then ∠PQS + ∠SQR = ∠PQR.
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Corresponding angles
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Corresponding angles are created where a transversal crosses other (usually parallel) lines. The corresponding angles are the ones at the same location at each intersection.
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Alternate Interior Angles
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Alternate Interior Angles are created where a Transversal crosses two (usually parallel) lines. Each pair of these angles are inside the parallel lines, and on opposite sides of the transversal.
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Alternate Exterior Angles
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Alternate Exterior Angles are created where a transversal crosses two (usually parallel) lines. Each pair of these angles are outside the parallel lines, and on opposite sides of the transversal.
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Same-Side Interior
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When two parallel lines are intersected by a transversal, one type of angles formed is same side interior angles.
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Parallel Lines

 

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Lines are parallel if they lie in the same plane, and are the same distance apart over their entire length
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Parallel Planes
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Planes that never intersect each other are known as Parallel Planes.
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Perpindicular Lines
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A line is perpendicular to another if it meets or crosses it at right angles (90°).
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Transversal Lines
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A line that cuts across two or more (usually parallel) lines
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Conditional Statement
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A conditional statement, symbolized by p[image]q, is an if-then statement in which p is a hypothesis and q is a conclusion.
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Hypothesis
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Hypothesis is the part of a conditional statement just after the word if.
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Conclusion
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A conclusion is the "then" part of a conditional statement.
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Converse
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to talk informally with another or others; exchange views, opinions, etc.
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Counter Example
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Counterexample is an example that is used to disprove a statement.
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Inverse
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Opposite or contrary in position, direction, order, or effect.
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Contrapositive

 

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A proposition derived by negating and permuting the terms of another, equivalent proposition; for example, All not-Y is not-X is the contrapositive of All X is Y.



Read more: http://www.answers.com/topic/contrapositive#ixzz23V5MX0T5
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Biconditional
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A statement that one of two propositions is true if and only if the other is true

Read more: http://www.answers.com/topic/biconditional-statement#ixzz23V5iLJfb
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Dinstance
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An amount of space between two things or people.
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Coordinate
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Each of a group of numbers used to indicate the position of a point, line, or plane.
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Endpoint
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The point in a titration at which a reaction is complete, often marked by a color change
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Midpoint
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A point somewhere in the middle.
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Pythagorean theorem
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The theorem that the sum of the squares of the lengths of the sides of a right triangle is equal to the square of the length of the hypotenuse.
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Right trianlge
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A triangle with a right angle.
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hypotenuse
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The longest side of a right triangle, opposite the right angle
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leg
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In a right triangle, a leg is either of the two sides that form the right angle.
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Sequence
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