Spotlight on Graphing Vocabulary
1. Two
or more lines in the same plane having the same slope are ______________.
Answer: parallel
2. What do we call the four regions that are created when two perpendicular
lines separate a plane?
Answer: quadrants
3. What is the name of the spot where the x-axis and y-axis meet?
Answer: origin
4. What is the difference between dependent and independent variables?
Answer: The value of a dependent variable (y) depends on the value of another
variable (x). The value of an independent variable does not depend on the value
of another variable.
5. The y-coordinate of the point where a graph crosses the y-axis is called
the _________________.
Answer: y-intercept