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Points, Lines, and Rays on the Town Map

Grade 4 geometry on a town map: name points, lines, segments, and rays, spot parallel and perpendicular lines, and sort angles.

Grade 4MathInteractive · Printable

Aligned to4.G.A.1

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  • Single worksheet
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  • 1 Common Core standard
  • Printable answer key
  • 12 questions
  • Classroom-ready

Details

Format
Interactive · Printable
Grade
Grade 4
Subject
Math
Question types
Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Matching, Sorting, Short answer, Drawing

About this worksheet

What students practice

  • Students identify and name points, lines, line segments, and rays using their labeled points.
  • Students recognize parallel and perpendicular lines and classify angles as acute, right, or obtuse.
  • Students draw a ray and a perpendicular line to match a description.

How to use

Review how lines, segments, and rays are named first. Have students trace each figure with a finger and say its name aloud before they answer.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

4.G.A.1

Draw points, lines, line segments, rays, angles, and perpendicular and parallel lines.

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Name Date

Points, Lines, and Rays on the Town Map

Name, sort, and draw the lines and angles you find around town.

Name the figure

Each street and path on the town map is drawn as a figure. Choose or write its name.

1.
Bus Route 5 starts at the station and goes on and on in one direction. It is drawn like this. What is its name?PQ
  • A. line PQ
  • B. segment PQ
  • C. ray QP
  • D. ray PQ
2.
The crosswalk on Maple Street is drawn like this. Which name fits it?GH
  • A. segment GH
  • B. line GH
  • C. ray GH
  • D. ray HG
3.
Match each map picture to its name.
  1. A. ray
  2. B. point
  3. C. line
  4. D. line segment
4.
Oak Street and Elm Street are drawn as line AB and line CD.ABCD
Word bank: parallel · perpendicular · intersecting

Line AB and line CD never meet. They are   lines.

5.
First Avenue and Bridge Road are drawn as line JK and line LM.JKLM
Word bank: acute · right · obtuse · parallel · perpendicular

The lines meet to make a   angle, so line JK is   to line LM.

6.
Pine Road and River Road are drawn as line RS and line TU. Which words best describe these two lines?RSTU
  • A. parallel lines
  • B. intersecting lines that are not perpendicular
  • C. perpendicular lines

Angles at the corners

Streets and paths meet at corners. Name and sort the angles they make.

7.
Two paths meet at the corner of the school yard and make this angle.DEF

The vertex of the angle is point  .
One name for the angle is angle  .

8.
Sort the street corners by the kind of angle they make.
AcuteRightObtuse
9.
The community garden is shaped like this triangle. Look at its three corners.

Right angles:  
Acute angles:  
Obtuse angles:  

Draw on the map

Use a ruler or another straight edge. Draw neatly and label your points.

10.
A new bike path starts at point S and goes on forever through point T. Draw ray ST.
11.
The town will build Lake Street perpendicular to line AB. Draw a line that is perpendicular to line AB and mark the right angle.
AB
12.
Ella says segment GH and ray GH are the same figure because both are straight and both go through G and H. Is she right? Explain.

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