Honors Geometry – List of Key Concepts for your Final
Chapter 1
 Be able to use the distance formula to calculate the distance between two points. This formula will be on your formula sheet.
 Be able to use a protractor to read the measure of an angle.
 Be able to able the properties of the midpoint of a segment to solve for a missing segment length.
 Be able to use the Segment Addition postulate to find a missing length.
 Be able to use the properties of an angle bisector to find the measure of an angle
Chapter 2
 Given a conditional statement be able to write the converse, inverse, biconditinoal, and contrapositive statement.
Chapter 3
 Be able to identify alternate interior, corresponding, alternate exterior, same side interior, and same side exterior angles.
 Be able to apply the properties of alternate interior, corresponding, alternate exterior, same side interior, and same side exterior angles when the angles are formed by parallel lines.
 Understand how to prove lines parallel using alternate interior, corresponding, alternate exterior, same side interior, and same side exterior angles
 Be able to determine the measure of a triangle and then determine what type of triangle you have (acute, obtuse, or right)
 Be able to calculate the sum of the interior angles of an n-sided polygon
 Know the definition of a regular polygon
 Be able to determine the measure of one interior or exterior angles of a regular n-sided polygon
 Given a point and the slope of a line be able to write the equation for that line I slope-intercept form
 Given the slope of two lines be able to determine if the lines are parallel or perpendicular
Chapter 4
 Be able to determine if a given pair of triangles are congruent by SSS, ASA, SAS, or AAS
 If given two congruent triangles be able to apply the properties of congruent triangles
(corresponding angles are congruent, corresponding sides are congruent) to solve for a missing measurement or variable.
Chapter 5
 Be able to apply the properties of the midsegment of a triangle
 Be able to use the triangle inequality theorem to determine the possible lengths of a triangle
 Given the measures of the angles of a triangle, be able to list the triangle sides in order of longest to shortest or shortest to longest.
 Be able to identify the altitude, median, perpendicular bisector, and angle bisector of a triangle.
Chapter 6
 Be able to determine if a given quadrilateral is a parallelogram
 Know the properties of all quadrilaterals
 Given properties of a quadrilateral be able to determine the most precise name for that quadrilateral
 Be able to define and apply the properties of a median of a trapezoid
Chapter 7
 Be able to calculate the area of a composite shape – a shape formed by two or more other known shapes.

 Be able to find the area and circumference of a circle
 Be able to find the area of a rectangle and a square.
 Be able to use the formula for length of an arc to find the length of an arc or the measure of an arc.
 Be able to apply the Pythagorean Theorem
 Be able to apply the Converse of the Pythagorean Theorem
 Know and be able to apply the properties of special right triangles (30-60-90) & (45-45-90) to find missing sides.
Chapter 8
 Given two similar triangles be able to use the properties of similar triangles (corresponding angles are congruent and corresponding sides are proportional) to find missing measurements or solve for a variable
 Be able to solve a proportion
Chapter 9
 Be able to use trig functions (SOHCAHTOA) to find the missing length of a right triangle
 Be able to use inverse trig functions to find a missing acute angle in a right triangle
 Be able to use trig ratios to find the area of a regular octagon
Chapter 10
 Be able to calculate the surface area and/or volume of a prism, pyramid, cylinder, cone, or sphere. These formulas will be on your formula sheet.
 Given the similarity ratio for two 3-d shapes be able to calculate the surface area ratio and/or volume ratio
Chapter 11
 Be able to apply the theorems in sections 11.1 to prove a line is tangent to a circle or find the length of a segment.
 Be able to apply the theorems in section 11.4 to find the length of a segment