This document defines basic geometric terms including point, line, plane, segment, and ray. It provides visual examples of each term. For example, it states that a point has no size only location and represents points as D, B, and N. A line continues without end in opposite directions and represents a line as AB. The document also asks how you could describe geometrically the position of the moon, earth, and sun during a solar eclipse.

1. Mr. Clutter
Villegas Middle School

2. What did the acorn
say when he grew
up?
Points
Lines
Planes
Circles
Polygons
Congruency
Similarity

3. Point
• A position in space, has no size only
location
•D •B •N
D, B and N represent points

4. Line
• Continues without end in opposite directions
• •
A B
AB represents a line

5. Plane
• A flat surface that extends in four directions

6. Segment
• Part of a line made up of 2 points and all the
points of the line between the 2 points
• •
D E
DE represents a segment

7. Ray
• Part of a line consisting of one endpoint and
all the points of the line on one side of the
endpoint
F G
FG represents a ray
• •

8. • How could you describe
geometrically the position of
the moon, earth, and sun during
a solar eclipse?

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