Shapes Quiz for Kids

Shapes Quiz Questions and Answers

Our shape quiz features a mixture of everyday objects with geometric shapes. There's just 12 shapes in this quiz but we'll be adding similar quizzes soon.

Shape Quiz

1) What shape is the carnival flag?

2) What shape is the red wooden object?

3) What shape is each individual cell made by honey bees in this honeycomb?

4) What shape is this symbol?

5) What shape is an egg?

6) What name in mathematics do we give to half a circle?

7) What shapes are on this chessboard? How many black shapes are there?

8) What shape is this large glass and metal entrance to a famous museum in Paris?

9) This diamond has all four sides of the same length, what shape would mathematicans call it?

10) Name the three-dimensional solid shape?

11) These balloons are cordate shaped, but what does the word cordate mean?

12) What name would mathematicians give to this solid shape?

Answers:

Triangle
Pentagon
Hexagonal
Crescent
Oval shaped or an oviod (a three-dimensional oval is formally called an ovoid)
Semi-circle
Squares (there are 32 black squares)
Pyramid
Rhombus
Cylinder
Heart shaped
Hemisphere

Polygon names according to their number of sides

A polygon is any 2-dimensional shape formed with straight lines with at least three straight sides and angles.

triangle - 3 sides
quadrilateral- 4 sides
pentagon - 5 sides
hexagon - 6 sides
heptagon - 7 sides
octagon - 8 sides
nonagon - 9 sides
decagon - 10 sides
dodecagon - 12 sides
icosagon - 20 sides

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