Right Triangle Vocabulary

4. An angle between the horizontal plane and oblique line from the observer's eye to some object above his eye
6. A three sided shape with a right angle
7. The longest side of a right triangle, opposite the right angle
8. A term that is used to compare two or more numbers
9. the trigonometric function that is equal to the ratio of the side adjacent to an acute angle (in a right-angled triangle) to the hypotenuse.
11. A trigonometric function that for an acute angle in a right triangle is the ratio of the side opposite the angle to the hypotenuse.
12. The ratio of the side opposite the angle we know, or want to know, over the side adjacent to that angle.

1. the non-hypotenuse side that is next to a given angle
2. Geometric theorem that the sum of the squares on the legs of a right triangle is equal to the square on the hypotenuse
3. The angle one has to look down from the horizontal to see something on a lower level
5. The inverse functions of the basic trigonometric functions, which are sine, cosine, tangent, cotangent, secant and cosecant functions
10. The side across from a given angle