Instructions
Answer the following questions on transversals. Write your answers in complete sentences.
- What is a transversal?
- What are corresponding angles?
- What are alternate interior angles?
- What are alternate exterior angles?
- If two lines are parallel and a transversal intersects them, what can you say about the measures of the corresponding angles?
Answers
- A transversal is a line that intersects two or more other lines.
- Corresponding angles are angles on the same side of the transversal and in the same position relative to the intersected lines.
- Alternate interior angles are angles on opposite sides of the transversal and inside the intersected lines.
- Alternate exterior angles are angles on opposite sides of the transversal and outside the intersected lines.
- If two lines are parallel and a transversal intersects them, the corresponding angles are congruent.