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The name of a flat surface of a 3D shape
What is a face?
The front view of a water bottle looks like this shape.
What is a rectangle?
A 2D pattern that folds into a 3D shape.
What is a net?
This 3D app helps us visualize and make 3D nets and surface area.
What is GeoGebra?
The surface area of a rectangular prism with length 2cm, width 4cm, and height 6cm.
What is 88 cm2?
12 lines that connect all faces of a cube.
What are edges?
The top view of a Gitxsan bentwood box would look like this shape.
What is a rectangle?
This 3D shape’s net consists of 6 connected rectangles.
What is a rectangular prism?
This is the shape that has a curved lateral surface that comes to a point called a vertex.
What is a cone?
The surface area of a cylinder with r = 5cm and h = 10cm.
What is 471 cm2?
Only one point in a cone that connects all the edges.
What is a vertex?
The front view of a table.
What are 3 rectangles?
Cylindrical drums used in Indigenous ceremonies have nets consisting of 2 shapes.
What are 2 circles and a rectangle?
These are 2 parallel congruent faces of a prism.
What are bases?
The surface area of a triangular prism with base 8cm, height 5cm, and prism height 9cm.
What is 227.2 cm2?
A 3D shape which has 0 edges and 0 vertices.
What is a sphere?
Indigenous canoes were carved from cedar logs. From the top view, a canoe could resemble this 2D shape.
What is an oval?
This shape can be represented in 11 forms of a net.
What is a cube?
This surface area part of a cylinder refers to the curved region excluding the top and bottom circles.
What is lateral surface area?
A soda can has a radius of 4 cm and a height of 12 cm. Find its lateral surface area.
What is 402.12cm2 ?
Some Indigenous longhouses were built using cylindrical poles. The 3D shape used to describe a single log.
What is a cylinder?
When you rotate this 3D shape 90, 180, 270, and 360 degrees, the top, front, and side views don’t change.
What is a cube?
We represent nets in different 3D objects depending on these factors.
What are the number of shapes and faces?
Two cylindrical cans have the same height, but one has a larger surface area than the other. What could be different?
What is the radius?
This 3D shape has 2 triangular faces and 3 rectangular faces. Its surface area includes the base area and the perimeter of the base times height.
What is a triangular prism?