Shapes Vocabulary
This shapes vocabulary includes many geometric shapes.
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Notes on shapes vocabulary
Many of these shapes are used in geometry.
To describe the shape of something we can say it has a ____________ shape. For example:
- That lake has an oval shape.
- The moon has a crescent shape.
Or, we can use a hyphenated adjective before a noun:
- She has a heart-shaped face.
- The US Department of Defense is located in a pentagon-shaped building. (see photo above. Not surprisingly, the building is called "the Pentagon.")
Or, we can say that something is in the shape of a _____________.
- I planted our garden in the shape of a rhombus.
- We made a cake in the shape of a star.
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