Shape Riddles
I have 4 sides and 4 right angles. All of my sides are congruent. What shape am I?
What is a square?
a closed shape with many sides (three or more)
What is a polygon?
A shape that has 4 sides and 4 angles.
What is a quadrilateral?
A 3D shape (solid) that has 2 congruent polygon bases and the other faces are rectangles.
What is a prism?
A polygon with opposite sides that are congruent and parallel.
What is a parallelogram?
I am a shape with three congruent sides. What am I?
What is an equilateral triangle?
Meaning "the same". Same size and shape.
What is congruent?
A triangle with 3 congruent sides.
What is an equilateral triangle?
The amount of space a solid shape takes up.
What is volume?
A square and a rectangle are both parallelograms. True or False
True
I am a parallelogram with 2 sets of parallel, congruent sides, but none of my angles are right angles. What am I?
What is a rhombus?
The surface or side of a polygon used to help find the area.
What is a shape's base?
A triangle with only 2 congruent sides.
What is an isosceles triangle?
A shape with 7 sides.
What is a heptagon
A shape that has only one pair of parallel sides.
What is a trapezoid?
I am never a parallelogram because I only have one set of paralell lines. The other two sides are not parallel. What am I?
What is a trapezoid?
A solid, or 3D, figure (shape) that has polygons for faces.
What is a polyhedron?
A triangle with no congruent sides.
What is a scalene triangle?
A shape with 9 sides.
What is a nonagon?
A trapezoid is always a parallelogram. True or False?
False. It is never a parallelogram because it only has one pair of parallel sides.
I have 3 sides, but none of them are congruent. What am I?
What is a scalene triangle?
Any surface of a polyhedron other than the base.
What is a lateral face?
A polygon with all congruent sides and angles.
What is a regular polygon?
A solid (3D) shape with a polygon base (can be square or triangle) and all other faces are triangles that meet at the top vertex.
What is a pyramid?
A rhombus is always a parallelogram and sometimes a square. True or False?
True.