Surface Area

Question 1

What is surface area

Answer 1

The surface area is the total area of the outside faces of three-dimensional figures.

Question 2

What is surface area expressed in

Answer 2

Square units

Question 3

What is the surface area of a cube

Answer 3

The surface area of a cube is the sum of the area of the six squares that form the prism.

Question 4

What’s the surface area of a rectangular prism

Answer 4

It’s the sum of the area of the six rectangles that form the prism.

Question 5

What’s the surface area of a pyramid

Answer 5

The surface area of a pyramid is 1/2 the Perimeter of the base (p) times the slant height (s) plus the area of the base (b).

Question 6

What is slant height

Answer 6

Slant height is when you take a triangle and you cut it in half down the middle, the middle line is slant height

Question 7

What is surface area of a cylinder

Answer 7

To find the surface area of a cylinder multiply the circumference (2nr) by the height (h) and add the product to the area of the two ends of the cylinder.

Question 8

What is the surface area of a cone

Answer 8

The surface area of a cone is found by combining the lateral side surface with the area of its base

Question 9

What is the surface area of a sphere

Answer 9

Surface area of a sphere is four times the area of a circle with the same radius as the sphere