Describe The Coordinate Plane

Complete the sentence.

On the coordinate plane, the horizontal number line is the ____________.

• x- coordinate

• y- coordinate

• x- axis

• y- axis

On the coordinate plane, the __________ is the first number of an ordered pair.

• x- coordinate

• y- coordinate

• x- axis

• y- axis

Complete the sentence.

On the coordinate plane, the number line that runs right and left is the _________.

• x- coordinate

• y- coordinate

• x- axis

• y- axis

The origin is __________ on the coordinate plane

• the point where the x-axis and y- axis intersect

• the location of a point

Label the axis on the graph:

a

b

x-axis

y-axis

On the coordinate plane, the number line that runs up and down is the _________.

• x- coordinate

• y- coordinate

• x- axis

• y- axis

On the coordinate plane, the vertical number line is the ____________.

• x- coordinate

• y- coordinate

• x- axis

• y- axis

Complete the sentence.

On the coordinate plane, the __________ describes the location of a point.

• an ordered pair

• the x-axis

• the y- axis

The x- axis is the ________ number line on a coordinate plane.

• horizontal

• vertical

Complete the sentence. On the coordinate plane, the point whose coordinates are ( 0, 0 ) is called the _________.

• x- axis

• y- axis

• origin