Geometric Concepts and Shape Properties Flashcards
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Which quadrilateral has exactly ONE pair of parallel sides?
Answer: Trapezoid
A trapezoid (or trapezium) is defined as a quadrilateral with exactly one pair of parallel sides.
What is the term for a figure that looks the same on both sides of a dividing line?
Answer: Symmetric
A figure is symmetric when a line (the line of symmetry) divides it into two mirror-image halves.
A rectangle has a length of 4 units and a width of 3 units. What is its perimeter?
Answer: 14 units
Perimeter = 2 × (length + width) = 2 × (4 + 3) = 2 × 7 = 14 units.
Which of these shapes has the MOST sides?
Answer: Octagon
An octagon has 8 sides, which is more than a pentagon (5), hexagon (6), or heptagon (7).
Two shapes have the same form but one is larger than the other. What are they called?
Answer: Similar
Similar shapes have the same angles and proportional side lengths but differ in size, unlike congruent shapes which are identical.
How many right angles (90°) does a rectangle have?
Answer: 4
Every rectangle has four right angles by definition, which is why its corners always form perfect 90-degree angles.
Among these polygons, which has the FEWEST number of sides?
Answer: Triangle
A triangle has only 3 sides, which is the minimum number of sides for any polygon.
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