Geometry Vocabulary Surface Area

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The sum of the areas of all surfaces (faces) of a 3-D figure.

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Surface Area

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A figure made of triangles, quadrilaterals, semicircles, and other two-dimensional figures.

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Composite Figure

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The size of a surface or the amount of space inside a two-dimensional object.

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area

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The bottom line of a shape.

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base

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The distance from top to bottom. Or at right angles from any base to the furthest corner.

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height

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The size of a two-dimensional (2D) surface is the ____

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Area

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The sum of the areas of all faces of a three-dimensional figure

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Surface Area

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The amount of space inside a closed two-dimensional figure. It is measured in square units.

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Area

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4 is the _______ of the parallelogram

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height

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To find the area of a composite figure you can break the figure into parts. We refer to this as ______.

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Decomposing