How do you identify and compare two and three dimensional shapes? There are innumerable geometric shapes around the world. Everything that surrounds something appears in a specific geometric shape or is made of multiple different version of it. While there are a plethora of types, they are categorized into two parts; two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional (3D). Circles, squares, rectangles, hexagon, triangles, oval are some examples of 2D shapes. These figures have a length and a height. Cube, cuboids, prisms, cylinders, cones, spheres are some examples of 3D shapes. These have a length, height, and width. The 2D shapes exist in a plane defined by two axes (x-axis and y-axis), while their 3D counterpart exist in a plane that is defined by three axes (x-axis, y-axis, and z-axis).

These worksheets will have you identify and match basic geometric shapes. Triangles have three sides and angles. Students have trouble telling the difference between rectangles and squares. They both have opposite parallel sides and four right angles. The difference lies in the length of those sides. Squares have sides that are equal and rectangles have one side pair longer than the other. Students will also see spheres, pentagons, and hexagons here. These worksheets explain the names of simple two- and three-dimensional figures. Students will draw lines from the pictures to the correct terms.