Vocabulary:

Straight Angle- Angle whose measure is exactly 180

Right Angle- Angle whose measure is exactly 90
- Denote it by placing a block at the vertex of the angle.
Complementary- If the sum of two angles measure is 90
Supplementary- If the sum of two angles measure is 180
- An angle consists of 2 rays joined together at a vertex.
- If angles are complementary or supplementary this does not mean that the
angles have to be right next to each other(adjacent) or part of the same angle.
Vertical Angle- Angles hat are across from each other in an X pattern
- Vertical Angles are equal to each other in measure
Perpendicular Lines- 2 lines that intersect at a right angle are called perpendicular
lines
-The math book will sometimes turn this diagram on its side
- Measures of angles = number of degrees.
-When measures of 2 angles are the same number of degrees then the angles are
the same size
Congruent- Angles that are the same size (therefore have the same angle measure)
- When saying that two angles are the same size, but do not mind the angle
measure, we say the angles are congruent -

is

the sign for congruency.

Corresponding Angles- Angles that are in the same place in the top X as in the
bottom X
Alternate Exterior Angle- Angles that are outside of the parallel lines and are on
opposite sides of the intersecting line.
Alternate Interior Angle- Angles that are on opposite sides of the intersecting line
and are inside the parallel lines
Acute Angle- Angle that measure less than (<) 90
Obtuse Angle- Angle that measure greater than (>) 90 but less than (<) 180
Right Angle- Angle that measure 90
Acute Triangle- A triangle that has 3 acute angles
Right Triangle- A triangle that 1 right angle
Obtuse Triangle- A triangle that has 1 obtuse angle
Equilateral triangle- A triangle that has 3 sides of equal length
Isosceles triangle- A triangle that has 2 or more sides with some length
Scalene Triangle- A triangle that has no sides of same length
- Equilateral triangle is also equiangular.
- Equilateral triangle is an isosceles triangle.
- Base angles of an isosceles triangle are congruent.
Polygons- 3 sided-figures of more sides- are usually labeled alphabetically either
clockwise of counterclockwise.

Quadrilateral- A closed figure with four sides that are line segments.
- Segments are pieces of a line.
Trapezoid- A quadrilateral with exactly one pair of parallel sides.
Parallelogram- A quadrilateral with two pairs of parallel sides.
Rhombus- A parallelogram with 4 sides of equal length.
Rectangle- A parallelogram with 4 right angles.
Square- A parallelogram with 4 sides of equal length and 4 right angles.
- Each angle inside of a triangle has 2 congruent angles adjacent to it outside of
the triangle. These exterior angles are supplementary to the interior angle.
- A square is a rectangle. A square is a rhombus.
Diagonal- segment that joins two vertices of a quadrilateral, but is not a side.
Polygon- A closed figure that is made up of 3 or more line segments that intersect
only at their end points.
- A polygon is named for the number of sides it has.
# of sides

Name of Polygon

triangle

quadrilateral

pentagon

hexagon

heptagon

octagon

nonagon

10

decagon

Regular Polygon- A polygon with all sides equal in length and all angles equal in
measure.
- Any polygon can be divided by diagonals. *Diagonals DO NOT overlap.
- Diagonal + 2 = # of sides
* If n is the number of sides in a regular polygon
- The sum of the interior angles(for all polygons) = (n-2) x 180
- The measure of each interior angle = (n-2) x 180 / (over) n
- n-gon is another name for a polygon with n number of sides