ISEE Lower Level Quantitative Reasoning Flashcards: Classifying Quadrilaterals

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This deck focuses on Classifying Quadrilaterals, giving you a quick way to review the definitions, rules, and examples that matter most for ISEE Lower Level Quantitative Reasoning.

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Flashcard 1: What is always true about consecutive angles in a parallelogram?

Answer: Consecutive angles are supplementary (sum to $180^\circ$). Consecutive angles lie between parallel sides, making them supplementary via consecutive interior angles.

Flashcard 2: What is the definition of a parallelogram in terms of sides?

Answer: A quadrilateral with both pairs of opposite sides parallel. This property ensures opposite sides never intersect and form the basis for parallelogram classification.

Flashcard 3: What is the definition of a trapezoid used on most ISEE tests?

Answer: A quadrilateral with exactly $1$ pair of parallel sides. This definition distinguishes trapezoids from parallelograms by limiting parallel sides to one pair, as per common ISEE usage.

Flashcard 4: What is the definition of an isosceles trapezoid?

Answer: A trapezoid with congruent non-parallel sides (legs). Equal legs provide symmetry, leading to congruent base angles and diagonals in this trapezoid subtype.

Flashcard 5: What is the definition of a kite in terms of side lengths?

Answer: A quadrilateral with $2$ distinct pairs of adjacent congruent sides. Adjacent equal sides create two pairs meeting at vertices, defining the kite's distinctive shape.

Flashcard 6: What is the definition of a rectangle in terms of angles?

Answer: A quadrilateral with $4$ right angles. Four right angles ensure all corners are $90^\circ$, classifying it as a rectangle regardless of side lengths.

Flashcard 7: What is the definition of a rhombus in terms of side lengths?

Answer: A quadrilateral with all $4$ sides congruent. All sides equal in length defines the rhombus, with properties like perpendicular diagonals following from this.

Flashcard 8: What is the definition of a square using sides and angles?

Answer: A quadrilateral with $4$ congruent sides and $4$ right angles. Combining equal sides and right angles integrates properties of both rhombus and rectangle into a square.

Flashcard 9: What is always true about opposite sides of a parallelogram?

Answer: Opposite sides are parallel and congruent. In parallelograms, opposite sides maintain parallelism and equality due to the parallel property.

Flashcard 10: What is always true about opposite angles of a parallelogram?

Answer: Opposite angles are congruent. The parallel sides in a parallelogram force opposite angles to be equal by corresponding angles theorem.

Flashcard 11: What is the definition of a quadrilateral?

Answer: A polygon with exactly $4$ sides. This is the standard geometric definition that specifies the number of sides for classification as a quadrilateral.

Flashcard 12: What is always true about the diagonals of a parallelogram?

Answer: The diagonals bisect each other. Diagonals in a parallelogram intersect at their midpoints due to the symmetry of parallel sides.

Flashcard 13: What is always true about the diagonals of a rectangle?

Answer: They are congruent and bisect each other. Rectangles inherit bisecting from parallelograms, with right angles ensuring diagonal equality by Pythagoras.

Flashcard 14: What is always true about the diagonals of a rhombus?

Answer: They are perpendicular and bisect each other. Equal sides in a rhombus cause diagonals to be perpendicular and halve each other at the intersection.

Flashcard 15: What is always true about the diagonals of a square?

Answer: They are congruent, perpendicular, and bisect each other. Squares combine rectangle's equal diagonals with rhombus's perpendicularity and bisecting properties.

Flashcard 16: What is always true about the diagonals of a kite?

Answer: They are perpendicular, and one diagonal bisects the other. In a kite, the unequal pairs of sides result in perpendicular diagonals where one is the axis of symmetry bisecting the other.

Flashcard 17: What is always true about base angles in an isosceles trapezoid?

Answer: Each pair of base angles is congruent. Symmetry from equal legs in an isosceles trapezoid makes angles adjacent to each base equal.

Flashcard 18: What is always true about the diagonals of an isosceles trapezoid?

Answer: The diagonals are congruent. Equal non-parallel sides in an isosceles trapezoid lead to congruent diagonals by symmetry.

Flashcard 19: Which quadrilateral must it be if both pairs of opposite sides are parallel?

Answer: Parallelogram. Two pairs of parallel opposite sides uniquely identify a quadrilateral as a parallelogram.

Flashcard 20: Which quadrilateral must it be if it has $4$ right angles but not all sides are equal?

Answer: Rectangle. Four right angles define a rectangle, and unequal sides distinguish it from a square.

Flashcard 21: Which quadrilateral must it be if all $4$ sides are equal but angles are not all right angles?

Answer: Rhombus. All equal sides define a rhombus, and non-right angles distinguish it from a square.

Flashcard 22: Which quadrilateral must it be if it has $4$ equal sides and $4$ right angles?

Answer: Square. Equal sides and right angles together necessitate a square as the only matching quadrilateral.

Flashcard 23: Which quadrilateral must it be if it has exactly $1$ pair of parallel sides?

Answer: Trapezoid. Exactly one pair of parallel sides classifies it as a trapezoid, excluding parallelograms.

Flashcard 24: Which quadrilateral must it be if it has exactly $2$ pairs of adjacent congruent sides?

Answer: Kite. Two pairs of adjacent equal sides uniquely identify a kite, distinguishing from other quadrilaterals.