Unit 5 Vocabulary

An object that has height, width and depth (thickness), like any object in the real world.

• rectangle
• quadrilateral
• volume
• 3-dimensional

The intersection of a pair of faces in a three-dimensional figure. 

• edge
• prism
• quadrilateral
• face

Volume of the solids is measured in _______

• net
• cubic units
• dimension
• square units

Putting two or more geometric figures together

• decomposing
• composing
• polygon
• surface area

the total area of the 2 dimensional surfaces that make up a 3-dimensional object

• area
• volume
• facial area
• surface area

a four sided polygon

• quadrilateral
• triangle
• pentagon
• octagon

a quadrilateral with both pairs of opposite sides parallel

• trapezoid
• triangle
• parallelogram
  parallelogram
• quadrilateral

a shape that only has two dimensions such as width and height and no thickness

• 3 dimensional
• 2 dimensional
• 1 dimensional
• 4 dimensional

line segments that connect end to end to form a closed shape

• polygon
• polyhedron
• prism
• pyramid

the common endpoint of two or more line segments

• vertices
• volume
• face
• edge