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Three-Dimensional Solids: Worksheet

The document is a worksheet about three-dimensional solids. It provides information about polyhedrons, including common polyhedrons like cubes, pyramids and prisms. It also discusses solids with curved faces like spheres, cylinders and cones. The worksheet asks students to identify properties of different solids and name solids in pictures.

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Three-Dimensional Solids: Worksheet

The document is a worksheet about three-dimensional solids. It provides information about polyhedrons, including common polyhedrons like cubes, pyramids and prisms. It also discusses solids with curved faces like spheres, cylinders and cones. The worksheet asks students to identify properties of different solids and name solids in pictures.

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Worksheet

Three-dimensional solids
You can use this worksheet to complete Exercise 3.03.
Polyhedrons
1 Use the word list to complete the following paragraph. You can use words more than once. Look around
you to help you fill in the blanks.

edge   flat   hexahedron   pentahedron   prism   pyramid   rectangular   vertex

Solids can have flat faces and curved faces. Solids that only have _______ faces are called polyhedrons.
Some of the common polyhedrons are the ________ prism, the triangular _______ and the square
_________. Polyhedrons have similar names to polygons. We call a solid with five faces a ____________.
A solid with six faces is called a ____________. When the faces of a polyhedron meet, they form an
____________. When three or more edges meet, they form a __________.
Solids with curved faces
2 Use the word list to complete the following paragraph. You can use words more than once. Look around
you to help you fill in the blanks.

circle   cone   curved   flat   rectangle   sphere

Some solids are not polyhedrons because they have ________ faces. A solid that has only one curved face
is the _____________. The cylinder has two __________ faces and one ________ face. When we flatten the
curved face, it is a ________________.
A ___________ has one flat face and one curved face. When we flatten the curved section, it is a sector
of a __________.
3 Copy and complete the following table for the more common solids.

Solid Number of faces Shapes of faces Number of identical faces


cube
cylinder
square pyramid
triangular prism
rectangular prism
cone
triangular pyramid

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Prisms and pyramids


4 Use the word list to complete the following paragraph. You can use words more than once. Look around
you to help you fill in the blanks.

bottom  cross-section  end  pointed  rectangle  shape  size  square  triangle

Prisms and pyramids are special types of polyhedrons.


A prism has the same __________ from one end to the other. Both ends are the same ___________.
Prisms take their names from the shape at each _______. A rectangular prism has a ________ at each end
and a triangular prism has a __________ at each end.
A pyramid has a _________ top, called the apex. The shape at the _________ of the pyramid gives the
pyramid its name. A square pyramid has a __________ at the bottom. A pyramid’s ____________ is NOT
the same from the bottom to the top. Each cross-section is the same shape but not the same ___________.
5 Name each of the solids shown in the pictures on page XX.

a ________________________

b ________________________

c ________________________
d ________________________

e ________________________

f ________________________

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