Unit #4 Vocabulary

Scale drawing: A drawing that shows a real object with accurate sizes reduced or
enlarged by a certain amount (called the scale or scale factor)
Scale factor: The ratio of any two corresponding lengths in two similar geometric
figures
Right rectangular prism: A solid (3-dimensional) object which has six faces that are
rectangles.
Pyramids: A pyramid is a solid figure with a polygonal base and triangular faces that
meet at a common point
Parallel: Being of equal distance apart everywhere (never touching/intersecting)
Perpendicular: Lines that are at right angles (90) to each
Scalene triangle: A triangle with all sides of different lengths. No sides are equal and
no angles are equal
Obtuse triangle: A triangle that has an angle greater than 90.
Equilateral triangle: A triangle where all sides and angles are equal.
Surface area: the sum of all the areas of all the shapes that cover the surface of the
object.
Volume: the quantity of three-dimensional space enclosed by some boundary
Circumference: the linear distance around the edge of a closed curve or circular object
(the perimeter of a circle)
Radius: the length of a line segment from its center to its perimeter
Diameter: any straight line segment that passes through the center of the circle and
whose endpoints lie on the circle.
Supplementary: two angles that come together to form an angle that is 180o
Vertical: A pair of angles that share the same vertex and are opposite of one another.
They are always equal to one another.
Adjacent: Two angles that share a common side and a common vertex.
Complementary: Two angles that come together and form a 900 angle (right angle.)