Quadrilaterals

A quadrilateral is a two-dimensional shape with four sides and four angles. There are a lot of different kinds of quadrilaterals: familiar ones like squares and rectangles and less familiar ones like parallelograms and trapezoids. Quadrilaterals are classified based on the number of parallel lines, equal sides, and angles. Watch this lecture series and complete the interactive exercises.

Practice

Quadrilateral types - Questions

1. All parallelograms have opposite sides that are equal in length and parallel.

Which of these quadrilaterals are parallelograms?
The matching arrow labels indicate that two opposite sides are parallel.
Quadrilateral Parallelogram/Not parallelogram
  parallelogram
not parallelogram 
  parallelogram
not parallelogram 
  parallelogram
not parallelogram 

2. What kinds of quadrilateral is the shape shown?
The matching arrow labels indicate that two opposite sides are parallel.



Choose all answers that apply:

(A) Parallelogram

(B) Rhombus

(C) Rectangle

(D) Square

3. All rhombuses have all sides that are equal in length and opposite sides that are parallel.

Which of these quadrilaterals are rhombuses?

Quadrilateral Rhombus/Not Rhombus
  Rhombus
Not Rhombus
  Rhombus
Not Rhombus
  Rhombus
Not Rhombus

4. What kinds of quadrilateral is the shape shown?
The matching arrow labels indicate that two opposite sides are parallel.



Choose all answers that apply:

A) Parallelogram

(B) Rhombus

(C) Rectangle

(D) Square