Identifying Line Reflection Worksheets

How to Identify Line Reflections - Reflection can be thought of as flipping or folding an object over the line of the reflection. In geometric reflection, the original object is known as the pre-image, and the reflected image is known as the image. The initial object and the reflected object have the same size and shape, but they are present in opposite directions. The objects look like the exact mirror images of each other with left and right reversed. The line of reflection is a line that lies between the two identical mirror images or reflected objects. The line is present in a way that any point on one image is of equal distance on the flipped or reflected image. For instance, if you are given two triangles, each being a mirror image, and you can plot the top angle of both the triangles. Use a ruler to measure the distance between the two points. Take the measured distance and divide it by 2 to figure out the exact halfway point and mark that point. Repeat these measurements and find out two more halfway points between two images. Using your ruler connect all the three marked halfway points. If you measured these points correctly, this will would be your line of reflection.