by BlastRoom
Use the words of transformations - pre-image, image, rigid motion, scale factor, center of dilation and line of reflection - in real situations.
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A designer turns a logo about one fixed point on the screen, and the turned logo has exactly the same size and shape as the original. What is that fixed point called?
A student folds a sheet of paper along a straight crease so that a painted shape lands exactly on its backwards copy. What is the crease called?
A projector enlarges a slide. Every point of the picture moves away from one fixed point, and each distance from that point is multiplied by 3. Name that fixed point.
A Ferris wheel has 8 cars evenly spaced around its hub. The wheel turns until each car is where the next car was. What is the angle of rotation?
A tree beside still water appears upside down in the water, with the shoreline running straight between them. The treetop is 6 meters above the shoreline. How far below the shoreline is the treetop's reflection?
A photo is shrunk so each point sits one quarter of its old distance from one fixed point. A line in the photo was 12 cm long. How long is it after the shrink?
The minute hand of a clock sweeps from 12 to 3 while it stays pinned at the middle of the face. Which describes this rotation?
On a wallpaper strip, the pattern right of a straight vertical seam is a same-size mirror copy of the pattern on the left. A bird on the left faces right. How does its copy look?
On a map, every building is redrawn 5 times as far from the town hall as before, in the same direction. A building was 2 centimeters from the town hall. How far is its image from the town hall?
A gear turns a quarter turn about the axle pin through its middle. Which of these changes?
A pantograph is set to make a copy that is smaller than the drawing being traced. Which could be the scale factor of this dilation?
A team logo is painted on a gym floor and then painted again backwards, the same size, across the straight midcourt line. What is the logo painted first called?
Every tile in a border is the same size and faces the same way, and each tile sits 10 centimeters right of the one before it. Which transformation maps one tile onto the next?
A stencil letter is traced, then the stencil is flipped over onto its other face and traced again. The second letter is the same size but faces the opposite way. What was performed?
A window blueprint shows a frame 2 centimeters wide. In a new drawing the frame is 8 centimeters wide, and every angle is unchanged. Which transformation was used?
A pinwheel is pinned at its middle and pushed. Each blade ends up where the next blade began, still the same size and shape. Which transformation moved one blade to the next?
An elevator carries a poster 6 meters straight up. The poster is the same size at the top and still faces the same way. Which transformation describes the poster's move?
A word painted on a glass door reads correctly from outside. From inside the shop, the same word appears as a reflection. Which feature of the word is different in the two views?
A map on a phone is pinched open. Every road is now twice as long as before, and every angle where two roads meet is unchanged. Which transformation did the pinch perform?
A skater spins on one heel that never moves. The skater's outline keeps every length the same but ends up facing a new direction. Which transformation is this?
A chess piece is slid 3 squares to the left along one row. It is the same piece, the same size, and still facing the board the same way. Which transformation is this?
A puppet is moved closer to a lamp, and its shadow on the wall grows. The shadow has the same shape as the puppet but every length is larger. Which transformation is this?
A photo 10 centimeters wide is printed again 25 centimeters wide. Every angle is unchanged and every length is multiplied by the same number. How are the two prints related?
A paper triangle is slid 6 centimeters to the right and then flipped over a straight line. Comparing the starting triangle with the final one, what was preserved?
In a quilt, one square is turned 90 degrees about a corner pin. A second square is redrawn with every side 3 times as long. Which of the two changes is a rigid motion?
A model car is built so every length on it is one twenty-fourth of the matching length on the real car. What is true of the model's angles and lengths?
A door swings open about its hinges. Compare the door's outline before and after the swing.
A sticker is peeled off a laptop lid and stuck down again upside down near the corner. Nothing about the sticker is stretched. How is the new position related to the old one?
Two floor mats each measure 3 meters by 5 meters. One lies lengthwise across the room and the other lies crosswise. How are the two mats related?
A picture on a screen is stretched so it becomes twice as wide while its height stays the same. How is the stretched picture related to the original picture?
A logo is turned about a point and then redrawn with every length halved and every angle kept. How is the final logo related to the logo the artist started with?
Two identical stickers come off the same printing sheet, so every matching length and angle is equal. What can be said about how the two stickers are related?
In which sentence is the word dilation used correctly?
Which sentence uses the term pre-image correctly?
Which sentence uses the term image correctly?
In which sentence is the term rigid motion used correctly?
Which sentence uses the term scale factor correctly?
In which sentence is the term center of dilation used correctly?
Which sentence uses the term line of reflection correctly?
In which sentence is the word translation used correctly?
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