Geometry Cross Sections

What is a cross section?

What shape will the horizontal (parallel) cross-section of a cone be?

What shape will the vertical (perpendicular) cross -section of a cylinder be?

What shape will the vertical (perpendicular) cross-section of a cube be?

A triangular prism is shown. What shape does this perpendicular-to-base cross section make?

A triangular prism is shown What shape does this cross section perpendicular to the base make?

Describe the cross section of this triangular pyramid cut

parallel to the base.

Describe the cross section of this cone

A plane intersects a hexagonal prism. The plane is parallel to the base of the prism. Which two-dimensional figure is the cross section of the plane intersecting the prism?

Which figure can have the same cross section as a sphere?

Select the type of cross section formed when a triangular prism is cut perpendicular to its base.

A solid is cut by a plane that is perpendicular to its base, forming a two-dimensional cross section in the shape of a rectangle. Which of the following solids could have resulted in that cross section?