| A | B |
| ellipsoid | football-like shape made by rotating a conic around its major axis |
| torus | the suface made by rotating a circle about a given line external to the circle |
| cylinder | locus of points equadistant from a given line |
| sphere | the locus of points in space equadistant from a given point |
| tetrahedron | a platonic solid with four sides |
| hexahedron | a platonic solid with six sides |
| octahedron | a platonic solid with eight sides |
| dodecahedron | a platonic solid with twelve sides |
| icosahedron | a platonic solid with twenty sides |
| hyperboloid | a two-way funnel-like shape made by rotating a conic about its major axis |
| paraboloid | a bowl-like shape made by rotating a conic around its major axis |
| cone | the locus of all line segments connecting the circular base to a point |
| pyramid | a base with triangular surfaces connecting at a single point |
| prism | two polygon bases joined by sides so that all cross section connecting the bases are identical |
| cube | a platonic solid with six regular square sides |