The edible plant okra is shaped like a pentagon.Ī hexagon is a 6 sided polygon with interior angles that add to 720 degrees. The US Department of Defense headquarters is named 'the Pentagon'. Regular pentagons have sides of equal length and interior angles of 108 degrees.
A square is also a type of quadrilateral.Ī pentagon is a 5 sided polygon with interior angles that add to 540 degrees.
Examples of regular polygons include the equilateral triangle and square.Ī triangle is a 3 sided polygon with interior angles that add to 180 degrees.Ī square is a 4 sided polygon with interior angles that add to 360 degrees. Today's information on 2D polygon shapes comes to us from KidsMathGamesOnline (with some help from Google images!)Ī polygon is a plane (2 dimensional) figure that features at least 3 straight sides and angles.Ī regular polygon has sides which are all the same length as well as angles which are all the same.