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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 |
| circumference | the distance around a circle |
| composite figure | a figure made up of two or more figures |
| composite solid | a object made up of two or more objects |
| 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 congruent circular bases connected by a curved surface |
| diameter | the distance across a circle through the center |
| face | a flat surface of a polygon |
| hemisphere | one of two congruent halves of a sphere |
| lateral face | in a polygon a face that is not a base |
| pi | the ratio of the circumference of a circle to it's diameter the Greek letter π represents this number the value of pi is 3.142526... approximations for pi are 3.14 and 22/7 |
| prism | a polygon 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 rectangular polygon and in which the segment from the vertex to the circle of the base is the altitude |
| semicircle | half of a circle the formula is (1/2)πr^2 |
| slant height | the height of each lateral face |
| sphere | the set of all points in space that are a given distance from a point that is called the center |
| surface area | the sum of all areas of all the surfaces of a three dimensional figure |
| volume | the measure of space occupied by a solid compared by units of measure |