Triangle Special Segments Worksheet
Explore and identify the properties of medians, altitudes, angle bisectors, and perpendicular bisectors in triangles.
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Triangle Special Segments
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1. Which special segment connects a vertex of a triangle to the midpoint of the opposite side?
Altitude
Median
Angle Bisector
Perpendicular Bisector
2. The intersection of the three medians of a triangle is called the .
3. An altitude of a triangle is a segment from a vertex to the opposite side.
4. The circumcenter is equidistant from the sides of the triangle.
True
False
5. Draw an obtuse triangle and construct one of its altitudes. Label the vertices and the altitude.
6. In triangle ABC, if AD is a median to BC and BC = 20 units, what is the length of BD?
Match each definition with the correct special segment.
7. Equidistant from the vertices
a. Incenter
8. Intersection of angle bisectors
b. Centroid
9. Intersection of medians
c. Circumcenter
10. Intersection of altitudes
d. Orthocenter