Week 5 Vocabulary Words

A drawing that shows a real object with accurate sizes reduced or enlarged by a certain amount.

• proportion

• scale drawing

• scale factor

• area

The amount of space occupied by a two-dimensional figure

• scale factor

• dimensions

• area

• proportion

Two shapes that have the same shape but different size

• similar

• congruent

• scale factor

• congruent

Shapes that have only two dimensions, length and width

• three-dimensional

• similar

• congruent

• two-dimensional

Two shapes that are the same shape and the same size

• congruent

• similar

• length

• proportion

Shapes that have three dimensions: lenght, width and height

• length

• two-dimensional

• three-dimensional

• dimensions

The ratio of any two corresponding lengths in two similar geometric figures

• scale factor

• dimensions

• proportion

• similar

A measurement of length in one direction

• area

• proportion

• dimensions

• similar

when two fractions or ratios are equal

• proportion

• area

• similar

• scale drawing

A measure of how long an object is or the distance between two points

• length

• area

• proportion

• congruent