SFAW Mathematics Chapter 10  Lesson 10-1  Page 595  
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3. Reasoning Another solid figure is the sphere. It has a point that is exactly in the center. What do you know about the distance from any point on the sphere to the center?
sphere
  How can you tell one solid from another?
  Features of a solid figure can help you identify it. Notice that a prism
or a pyramid can be named by the type of base it has.
  SPECIAL POLYHEDRA
 
 
 
cube Rectangular prism Triangular prism Triangular pyramid
All faces are squares All faces are rectangles The bases are congruent triangles The base is a triangle
Below are examples of things found in the world around us that are solids.
Example B Example C Example D Example E
What shape is the
tissue box?
What shape is the
tepee?
What shape is the
building?
What shape is the can?
What shape is the tepee What shape is the can
What shape is the building
What shape is the tissue box
The tissue box is in
the shape of a
rectangular prism.
The building is in the
shape of a rectangular
pyramid.
The can is in the shape
of a cylinder.
The tepee is in the
shape of a cone.
  Talk About It
4.  Look at Examples B, C, D, and E. Name other objects in the real world
that have similar shapes. Tell why the objects you named are similar.
5.  How many faces does a triangular prism have?
A triangular pyramid?
6. 
Reasoning A solid is made from 4 equilateral
triangles. What is it?		 Take It to the NET
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