Relier Pairs Lesson 28 VocabularyVersion en ligne Match the term and definition with the example. par Tracy Harrison 1 Counterclockwise 2 Absolute Value: A number’s distance from 0 on the number line. Absolute value is never negative. 3 Area: The amount of space inside a closed two-dimensional figure. Area is measured in square units such as square centimeters. 4 Quadrants: The four regions of the coordinate plane that are formed when the x-axis and y-axis intersect at the origin. 5 y-axis: the vertical number line in the coordinate plane. 6 Perimeter: The distance around a two-dimensional shape. The perimeter is equal to the sum of the lengths of the sides. 7 Origin: The point (0, 0) in the coordinate plane where the x-axis and y-axis intersect. 8 x-axis: the horizontal number line in the coordinate plane. In the opposite direction of hands on a clock or toward the left on a circle.