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Geometry worksheet in which students identify prisms and name bases and lateral faces of prisms.
Geometry worksheet in which students name bases and lateral faces of prisms, classify prisms, identify rectangular solids and cubes, and identify heights of prisms.

Activity 3.8​

Assignment 3.9

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​Assignment 8.17

​Prisms

 
Objectives
Name bases and lateral faces of prisms.
 
​Identify rectangular solids and cubes.
 
Identify heights of prisms.
 
 

About Geometry Worksheet Assignment 8.17:                   

 

Assignment 8.17 is an introduction to prisms.

 

Prerequisite Skills:  Classify polygons (Assignment 8.3).  Name polygons (Assignment 8.1).

 

Definitions:  A prism is a polyhedron in which at least two faces are congruent and parallel polygons and all other faces are parallelograms.

                           The congruent and parallel faces of a prism are its bases.  The other faces are lateral faces.

                           A prism with its lateral faces rectangles is right.  A prism that is not right is oblique.

                           A prism in which all faces are rectangles is a rectangular solid.  A prism in which all faces are squares is a cube.

                           The height of a prism is the distance between its bases.

 

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