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🥫 Cylinders, Cones & Spheres Lab

Round solids —
let's compare all three

Cylinders, cones, and spheres are all round solids, but they differ in how many bases they have and what shape those bases are.

Cylinders, cones, and spheres all have a round part, but counting their bases tells them apart for sure. A cylinder has 2 circular bases of the same size, top and bottom, wrapped by a curved side face. Cans and rolls of paper towels are classic cylinder shapes.

A cone has only 1 base, with its side face coming to a single pointed apex — just picture a party hat. A sphere has 0 flat faces at all — it's a perfectly round shape where the distance from the center to the surface is always the same, no matter the direction.

Click the net button and the differences become even clearer. A cylinder's side face unfolds into a rectangle, and a cone's side face unfolds into a sector (a pie-slice shape) — but no matter how you cut a sphere, it can never be flattened out.

🧩 Shape Guessing Quiz

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