Quadrilateral Characteristics

Quadrilateral

• four sides

• four vertices

• interior angles add up to 360

Kite

• 2 pairs of adjacent congruent sides

• perpendicular diagonals

• one diagonal bisects the other

Trapezoid

• one pair of opposite sides parallel, non-congruent

Isosceles Trapezoid

• one pair of opposite sides parallel, non-congruent

• congruent legs

• congruent base angles

Parallelogram

• two sets of opposite sides are parallel and congruent

• opposite angles congruent

• mutually bisecting diagonals

Rectangle

• all angles 90 degrees

• two sets of opposite sides parallel and congruent

• mutually bisecting diagonals

Square

• four congruent sides

• all angles 90 degrees

opposite sides parallel

• perpendicular diagonals

• mutually bisecting diagonals

Rhombus

• four congruent sides

• two sets of parallel sides

• opposite angles congruent

• perpendicular diagonals

• mutually bisecting diagonals