Shape Vocabulary

Type of quadrilateral with four equal sides and four right angles

• Rectangle

• Parallelogram

• Square

• Kite

A 6-sided polygon

• Pentagon

• Hexagon

• Decagon

• Polygon

When two lines run the same distance from each other and never intersect

• Parallel

• Congruent

• Polygon

• Quadrilateral

An 8-sided polygon

• Hexagon

• Pentagon

• Quadrilateral

• Octagon

Type of quadrilateral with at least one pair of parallel lines

• Trapezoid

• Parallelogram

• Pentagon

• Heptagon

When the sides or angles of a shape are the same size or equal

• parallel

• intersect

• quadrilateral

• congruent

A 3-sided polygon

• triangle

• pentagon

• octagon

• rhombus

All of the angles in a triangle add up to ___ degrees.

• 90

• 180

• 270

• 360

Type of quadrilateral with two pairs of opposite, parallel and equal lines as well as four right angles

• parallelogram

• trapezoid

• rectangle

• rhombus

A four-sided polygon

• Quadrilateral

• Pentagon

• Heptagon

• Octagon