Special Segments of a Triangle - Vocabulary
Across
- 4. The incenter is equidistant to the ____________ of a triangle.
- 5. If a point is on the perpendicular bisector of a segment, then it is ______________ from the endpoint of the segment.
- 7. A line that is perpendicular to a segment at its midpoint. (2 words)
- 11. A segment whose endpoints are vertex of a triangle and the midpoint of the opposite side.
- 13. The circumcenter is equidistant from the ___________ of the triangle.
- 14. In a right triangle the circumcenter is located at the midpoint of the _______________
- 15. The distance from a vertex of a triangle to the centroid is ____________the length of the median. (2 words)
- 16. The common point at the intersection of the medians of a triangle.
Down
- 1. A ray that divides an angle into two congruent angles.
- 2. The circle that contains all three vertices of a triangle. (2 words)
- 3. The shortest distance from a point it a line is the length of the _________________ segment from the point to the line.
- 6. The common point at the intersection of all the angle bisectors of a triangle.
- 8. The orthocenter of an obtuse triangle is ____________ of the triangle.
- 9. The common point at the intersection of altitudes of a triangle.
- 10. The common point at the intersection of the perpendicular bisectors of a triangle.
- 12. A segment from a vertex that is perpendicular to the opposite side or the line containing the opposite side of a triangle.