Question

Define a prism and a pyramid. Give one example of each. [3 MARKS]

Answer 1

Definition : 2 MARKS
Example : 0.5 Each

Prism is a solid, whose side faces are parallelograms and whose ends (bases) are congruent parallel figures and a pyramid is solid whose base is polygon of any number of sides and whose other faces are triangles with a common vertex.

Example of Prism : A triangular prism

Example of Pyramid : A quadrilateral pyramid