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Mod 12 Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| area | the measure of the interior surface of a two dimensional figure |
| center | the point from which all points on a circle are the same distance |
| circle | the set of all points in a plane that are the same distance from a given point called the center |
| circumfrance | the distance around a circle |
| composite figure | a figure that is made up of two or more figures |
| composite solid | an object made up of more than one solid |
| cone | a three-dimensional figure with one circular base connected by a curved surface to a single point |
| cylinder | a three-dimensional figure with two parallel congruent circular bases connected by a curved surface |
| diameter | the distance across its circle through its center |
| face | a flat surface of a polyhedron |
| hemisphere | one of two congruent halves of a sphere |
| lateral face | in a polyhedron, a face that is not a base |
| pi | the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter the Greek letter π represents this number the value of pi is 3.1415926... Approximations for pi are 3.14 and 22/7 pi goes on for forever |
| prism | a polyhedron with two parallel congruent faces called bases |
| pyramid | a polyhedron with one base that is a polygon and three or more triangular faces that meet at a common vertex |
| radius | the distance from the center of a circle to any point on the circle |
| regular pyramid | a pyramid whose base is a regular polygon and in which the segment from the vertex to the center of the base is the altitude |
| semicircle | half of a circle the formula for the area of a semicircle is A = 1/2π r^2 |
| slant height | the height of each lateral face |
| sphere | the set of all given points in space that are a given distance from a given point called the center |
| surface area | the sum of the areas of all the surfaces (faces) of a three-dimensional figure |
| volume | the measure of the space occupied by a solid standard units of measure are cubic units such as in in^3 or ft^3 |