Across
- 3. A kind of conic with a principal axis parallel to the x-axis
- 5. Math 5 teacher and scale coordinator
- 6. Puzzle’s maker
- 9. Axis whose length is equal to the constant sum describing the ellipse
- 11. Describes a generated shape when a plane passes through a cone’s vertex
- 13. Rectangle at the center of the hyperbola
- 15. Shape whose reflective property is used in shock wave lithotripsy
- 16. Equation in the form Ax + By + C = 0
- 17. The kind of parabola described by the equation x2 = y
- 18. Conic section with e > 1
- 21. Used to describe a conic’s deviance to a circle
- 23. A line that is as close to the parabola’s vertex as its focus
- 24. The 2 cones which make up the hourglass-like shape
- 26. A figure that passes through a cone to generate conics
Down
- 1. A curve obtained by a plane intersecting a cone
- 2. The segment connecting a hyperbola’s co-vertices
- 4. A line approached but not touched by the hyperbola
- 7. Shortest axis of an ellipse
- 8. A conic perpendicular to the cone’s axis
- 10. A line or segment acting as a conic’s line of symmetry or as a connector of its vertices
- 12. A line which rotates about a fixed axis to make 2 cones
- 14. Set of points whose distance from a fixed point to a fixed line is equal
- 19. Curve making up half the hyperbola
- 20. Location of the source wave that produces parallel reflected rays in a parabola
- 21. A set used to describe one of the degenerate conics not seen geometrically
- 22. The segment connecting a hyperbola’s vertices
- 25. Equation in the form Ax + By = C