7th Grade Vocabulary Words Week of 12/09/2013 complementary angles are angles that !

!hen added together e"ual 90 degrees# supplementary angles are angles that !hen added together e"ual 1$0 degrees# stra%ght angles are the measure e&actly 1$0 degrees# 'erte& r%ght angles are 90 degree angles across from the base of a tr%angle# ray %s a l%ne !%th a def%n%te start (end po%nt) and cont%nues %n one d%rect%on# *rotractor a tool used to measure angles# (measures degrees) degrees the un%t of measure for !h%ch angles are measured# +ongruent same s%,e and shape# d%agonal across from one another o'er a 'erte&# %sosceles a tr%angle !%th 2 e"ual s%des# scalene a tr%angle !here all angles d%ffer %n measurement# e"u%lateral a tr%angle !here all s%des and angles are congruent# acute an angle !h%ch %s less than 90 degrees# (angle - 90 degrees) r%ght an angle !h%ch measures e&actly 90 degrees# ( angle . 90 degrees) obtuse an angle !h%ch %s greater than 90 degrees and less then 1$0 degrees# (90/angle-1$0) 'ert%ces !here t!o (or three) s%des of a shape meet# base angles angles that are measured from the base of tr%angle# (e'ery tr%angle has 2) parallelogram a polygon !%th e&actly t!o pa%rs of parallel s%des# 0rape,o%d a polygon !%th only one pa%r of parallel s%des# 1hombus a parallelogram !%th oppos%te e"ual acute angles oppos%te e"ual obtuse angles and four e"ual s%des s"uare a four s%ded polygon !%th four e"ual s%des# rectangle a four s%ded polygon !%th 2 pa%rs of congruent parallel s%des# e"u%angular a tr%angle !h%ch has all three %nter%or angles e"ual# (congruent) base the s%de %n !%th a shape rests upon parallel s%de by s%de and ne'er %ntersect parallel bases the top and bottom edges !here the s%des meet on a shape faces any flat surface that %s not a base lateral surface area the sum of of areas of all of the surfaces polygons 2 a plane shape (t!o2d%mens%onal) !%th stra%ght s%des# attr%butes 2 %s a character%st%c to descr%be an ob3ect usually !%th%n a pattern# propert%es 2 a character or attr%bute that someth%ng has# s%m%lar same shape d%fferent s%,e# proport%onal a statement of e"ual%ty of t!o rat%os !%th a constant rat%o# correspond%ng s%des s%des %n the same pos%t%on on s%m%lar shapes# correspond%ng angles angles %n the same pos%t%on on s%m%lar shapes# regular a normal shape# symmetr%c shape %s congruent on both s%des !hen spl%t %n half#