2nd Grade Math worksheet for identifying geometric transformations.

Explanation:
We need to figure out what happened to each shape in one transformation — only one step — and choose the correct word(s) from: *enlarged*, *reduced*, *flipped*, *rotated*.

Let’s go row by row:

1. Square → smaller square
- Same shape, same orientation, just smaller.
→ This is reduced.
(Not enlarged, not flipped, not rotated.)

2. Triangle pointing up → triangle pointing down
- Same size and shape, but upside down.
That’s a flip (reflection over a horizontal line).
Also, you *could* say it’s rotated 180°, which gives the same result.
So both flipped and rotated are correct.
(The problem says there can be more than one correct answer for some rows.)

3. Right triangle (right angle on bottom-left) → right triangle (right angle on bottom-right)
- The shape is mirrored left-to-right.
That’s a flip (reflection over a vertical line).
Not rotated — if you rotated it, the right angle would move to top or side, not just mirror horizontally.
So only flipped.

4. Small trapezoid → larger trapezoid (same orientation)
- Same shape, same direction, just bigger.
→ enlarged.
(Not reduced, not flipped, not rotated.)

5. Rectangle → parallelogram (slanted)
- The rectangle is now leaning — its angles changed, but side lengths look similar.
Actually, this looks like a rotation? Wait — no. A pure rotation keeps angles the same (90° stays 90°), but here the corners are no longer 90°.
This is actually a shear, but that’s not an option.
Let’s re-examine: The shape is still a quadrilateral with two sides parallel — it's a parallelog’t’? Hmm.
But looking closely: The left and right sides are slanted equally — this is likely a rotation of the rectangle, but rectangles rotated stay rectangles (angles stay 90°). So this cannot be a pure rotation.
Wait — maybe the image shows a rectangle turned into a parallelogram by *flipping*? No, flipping wouldn’t change angles either.
Let’s consider: In elementary school contexts, sometimes they treat “tilted rectangle” as rotated, even if it’s not mathematically precise. But the key is: Did the shape change size? No — looks same width/height roughly, just tilted.
Since the options are only enlarged/reduced/flipped/rotated, and it’s clearly not enlarged/reduced (no size change), and not flipped (no mirror image), the best fit is rotated — assuming it's meant to be a rectangle turned slightly (like 20–30°), which makes it look like a parallelogram due to drawing style. So we’ll go with rotated.

6. Trapezoid (left side slanted, right side vertical) → trapezoid (right side slanted, left side vertical)
- It’s mirrored left-right.
→ flipped.

7. Shape with cut corner (like a rectangle with top-right corner cut off) → same shape but upright (cut corner now bottom-left?)
Let’s compare: First shape has flat bottom, slanted top-right edge. Second has flat right side, slanted bottom-left edge.
It looks like it was turned — the cut corner moved from top-right to bottom-left, which is a rotation of 90° clockwise (or 270° counterclockwise).
So: rotated.

Now double-check each:

Row 1: reduced ✔
Row 2: flipped and rotated ✔ (both valid — 180° rotation = flip vertically)
Row 3: flipped ✔
Row 4: enlarged ✔
Row 5: rotated ✔ (most reasonable given options)
Row 6: flipped ✔
Row 7: rotated ✔

The question says: *Circle the correct word which describes how the 1st shape has been transformed to the 2nd shape in just one transformation.* And: *There is more than one correct answer for some.*

So final selections per row:
1. reduced
2. flipped, rotated
3. flipped
4. enlarged
5. rotated
6. flipped
7. rotated

Final Answer:
1. reduced
2. flipped, rotated
3. flipped
4. enlarged
5. rotated
6. flipped
7. rotated