Exploring Spheres
A worksheet to help fourth-grade students understand the properties and characteristics of spheres.
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Exploring Spheres
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Read each question carefully and answer to the best of your ability. Good luck!
What is a Sphere?
A sphere is a perfectly round three-dimensional object. Every point on the surface of a sphere is the same distance from its center. Think of a ball!
1. Which of the following objects is a sphere?
A brick
A basketball
A book
A pyramid
2. What is special about every point on the surface of a sphere?
They are all flat
They are all corners
They are all the same distance from the center
They are all edges
3. A sphere is a object.
4. All points on the surface of a sphere are the same from its center.
5. A cube is an example of a sphere.
True
False
6. The Earth is shaped like a sphere.
True
False
7. Name two real-world objects that are spheres.