GEOMETRY QUADRILATERALS

QUADRILATERALS - CHARACTERISTICS & definitions (high school geometry)

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NAME THE QUADRILATERAL
No sides parallel.
2 pair of consecutive sides congruent.
Diagonals of a are perpendicular (One bisects the other).

KITE

NAME THE QUADRILATERAL One pair of parallel sides.
Consecutive angles that share a leg are supplementary.

TRAPEZOID

NAME THE QUADRILATERAL
(legs are congruent)
Base angles are congruent
Diagonals are congruent.

Isosceles trapezoid

WHAT AM I?
joins the midpoints of the nonparallel lines , is parallel to the bases and half as long as the sum of the lengths of the bases.

Midsegment OF A TRAPEZOID

NAME THE QUADRILATERAL
2 pair of parallel sides.
Opposite sides are congruent.
Opposite angles are congruent.
Consecutive angles are supplementary.
Diagonals bisect each other.

Parallelogram

NAME THE QUADRILATERAL Parallelogram with congruent sides.
Diagonals are perpendicular bisectors of each other.
Diagonals bisect the angles.

RHOMBUS

Parallelogram
Congruent sides.
Right angles in corners.

SQUARE

1. Parallelogram
2. Right angles in corners.
Diagonals bisect each other.
Diagonals are congruent.
Two pairs of sides are congruent.

RECTANGLE

POLYGON WITH 4 SIDES

QUADRILATERAL

Two angles that share a base of a trapezoid are its __________.

base angles

A(n) _______ is a trapezoid whose nonparallel opposite sides are congruent.

isosceles trapezoid.

A(n)_______ is a parallelogram with four congruent sides and four right angles.

square

A(n) _______ is a quadrilateral with both pairs of opposite sides parallel.

parallelogram

A(n) _______ is a parallelogram with four congruent sides.

rhombus

The ____ of a trapezoid is the segment that joins the midpoints of the nonparallel opposite sides.

midsegment

Angles of a polygon that share a common side are ___________.

consecutive angles

A(n) _______ is a parallelogram with four right angles.

rectangle

A(n) _______ is a parallelogram with two pairs of adjacent sides congruent and no opposite sides congruent.

kite

A(n) is a quadirlateral with exactly one pair of parallel sides.

trapezoid


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