Identifying Prisms and Pyramids

To determine what name goes in front of 'prism', identify what shape goes throughout

For instance, look at triangular prism...notice how our prism is just an elongated triangle.

Similarly, a hexagonal prism is just a very long hexagon!

What differences do you seen between a prism and a pyramid?

A prism is a consistent shape throughout the 3-dimensional shape

A pyramid comes to a point at the top.

For a rectangular pyramid, it starts out as a rectangle for the base, but comes to a point