Identifying Key Features of Prisms and Pyramids

The video tutorial explores the key features of prisms and pyramids, focusing on their base shapes and heights. It begins with an introduction to prisms, highlighting their parallel and congruent base faces, and continues with pyramids, emphasizing their single base face and apex. The tutorial provides detailed explanations of rectangular and triangular prisms, as well as rectangular and triangular pyramids, illustrating how to identify and label their bases and heights. The session concludes with practice exercises to reinforce the identification and labeling of these geometric shapes.

What defines a prism?

• A 3D figure with two parallel and congruent base faces

• A shape with one base face

• A figure with a single apex

• A shape with all triangular faces

What is unique about pyramids compared to prisms?

• Pyramids have two base faces

• Pyramids have only rectangular faces

• Pyramids have a single base face and triangular sides

• All faces of pyramids are parallel

How can the base of a rectangular prism be identified?

• Any face can be the base

• Only the largest face can be the base

• Only the top face is considered the base

• The base must be a triangle

What distinguishes a triangular prism from a rectangular prism?

• Its bases are congruent triangles

• It has a single base face

• It cannot have rectangular faces

• It has only triangular faces

How is the height of a pyramid determined?

• Distance from the base to the apex

• Distance from the center of the base to the apex

• Distance from any vertex to the base

• Length of the base edge

What is the base shape of a rectangular pyramid?

• Square

• Rectangle

• Circle

• Triangle

In a triangular prism, what are the shapes of the non-base faces?

• Squares

• Triangles

• Circles

• Rectangles

What is the base shape of a triangular pyramid?

• Triangle

• Hexagon

• Rectangle

• Square

How many triangular faces does a rectangular pyramid have?

• Two

• Three

• Four

• Five

What is the height of a prism defined as?

• The longest side of the base

• The distance around the base

• The distance between the two base faces

• The length of any of its sides