Polygons
3-D Shapes
Vocabulary
Comparing Shapes
Lines
100
any shape that has straight sides and is closed
What is a polygon?
100
These are two things that a cylinder and a cone have in common.
What are rounded sides and the flat faces are circles?
100
This is what we call the tip of a cone or pyramid.
What is apex?
100
The difference between a triangle and a rectangle.
What is a triangle has 3 sides, and a rectangle has 4 sides?
100
A section of a line that has 2 endpoints.
What is a line segment?
200
This polygon has 5 sides.
What is a pentagon?
200
This is what we call the points on a 3-D shape.
What is a vertex?
200
This is the flat side of a 3-D shape.
What is a face?
200
The square, rectangle, kite, and trapezoid all have this in common.
What is they are all quadrangles?
200
Two lines that will never meet.
What are parallel lines?
300
This polygon has 6 sides.
What is a hexagon?
300
This is a line segment where 2 faces meet.
What is an edge?
300
On either side of a line, both sids are exactly the same.
What is symmetry?
300
The difference between a parallelogram and a trapezoid?
What is a parallelogram has 2 sets of parallel sides a trapezoid has 1 set?
300
This polygon has only 1 set of parallel lines?
What is a trapezoid?
400
This polygon has 10 sides.
What is a decagon?
400
This is how may faces a cube or rectangular prism has.
What is 6?
400
This formed when 2 sides of a polygon meet.
What is an angle?
400
The difference between a cube and a regular rectangular prism.
What is the faces of a cube are all the same size?
400
This quadrangle has NO parallel lines.
What is a kite?
500
This type of polygon has 4 sides and 4 angles.
What is a quadrangle (or quadrilateral)?
500
This is another name for a triangular pyramid.
What is a tetrahedron?
500
Ways to classify shapes including, size, shape, color, and thickness.
What are attributes?
500
This is how a kite and a parallelogram are alike.
What is both have 2 pairs of lines that are the same length?
500
This is a special quadrangle has 2 sets of parallel lines.
What is a parallelogram?
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