Volume of a Pyramid
Vocabulary
Review: Volume of a prism/cylinder
Types of Pyramids
Mystery
100
The relationship between the volume of a prism and a pyramid.
What is the volume of a pyramid is one-third the volume of a prism?
100
The amount of 3-dimensional space an object occupies.
What is volume?
100
What is the surface area of a cube prism that has a volume of 1,000 cubic inches?
What is 600 square inches?
100
The base is a regular polygon and its faces are equally sized triangles.
What is a regular pyramid?
100
A polyhedron.
What is a solid figure with many plane faces?
200
Find the volume of a prism if a pyramid with the same height and base is 200cm cubed.
What is a volume of 600cm cubed?
200
A three dimensional shape with a regular polygon base and congruent triangular sides that meet at a common point.
What is a pyramid?
200
Find the height of a right rectangular prism with a 295.2 cubic inch volume and a base area that measures 72.0 squared inches.
What is a height of 4.1 inches?
200
Type of pyramid that has a convex polygon as its base.
What is a convex pyramid?
200
Find the volume of a pyramid with four congruent base sides. The length of each base side and the prism's height measure 2.4 ft.
What is a volume of 4.6 cubic feet?
300
Two things that you must know to claculate the volume of a pyramid.
What is base and height?
300
Type of prism whose sides do not meet the base at a 90 degree angle.
What is an oblique prism?
300
Munine is trying to fit her new 24-inch tall cylindrical speakers in a corner shelf. Unfortunately, they do not fit upright in her shelf. If each speaker is 2,400π cubic inches, what is the maximum width of her shelf?
What is less than 20 inches?
300
The base is an irregular polygon, and as a result, its faces are not equally sized.
What is an irregular pyramid?
300
The three kinds of pyramids.
What is rectangular based pyramid, triangular based pyramid, and square based pyramid?
400
1/3Bh.
What is the formula for volume of a pyramid?
400
V=AH, where A is the area of the base.
What is the formula for volume of a prism?
400
Agricultural worker Tamara Bailey owns a grape tree farm in Florida. During some parts of the year the amount of rain in Florida is not sufficient to maintain maximum growth of grapes so Tamara is going to buy a water tank. Find how much water it will hold if it is a right circular cylinder with a height of 10 feet and a radius of radius of 5 feet.
What is a volume of 785 feet cubed?
400
Type of pyramid that has isosceles triangles as its faces and its apex lies directly above the midpoint of the base.
What is a right pyramid?
400
The surface of a polyhedron.
What is face?
500
Find the volume of a pyramid with an eight-sided base that measures 333 sq. in. and a height that measures 10 in.
What is a volume of 1,100 cubic inches?
500
The intersection of a solid and a plane.
What is cross-section?
500
Dillon fills the cylindrical coffee grind containers each day. One bag has 32π cubic inches of grinds. How many cylindrical containers can Dillon fill with two bags of grinds if each cylinder is 4 inches wide and 4 inches high?
What is 4 containers?
500
Type of pyramid that does not have all isosceles triangles as its lateral sides
What is an oblique triangle?
500
A two-dimensional pattern that can be folded to make a three-dimensional prism or pyramid.
What is net?
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