hippopatamus
Assuming you mean a rectangular prism, you get the smallest surface area if the prism is a cube. You can calculate the required length of side to get that volume; then, based on that, the corresponding surface area.
A sphere
The largest organism.
The spherical shape is the smallest surface area for a given volume. This comes about naturally when a surface under pure surface tension contains a fluid volume.
the sphere has the smallest surface area for any given volume.
No. The surface to volume ratio of a sphere is always smaller than that of a cube. This is because the sphere has the smallest surface area compared to its volume, while the cube has the largest surface area compared to its volume.
hippopatamus
A sphere has the lowest surface area to volume ratio compared to other shapes because it has the smallest surface area for a given volume. This is due to its symmetrical shape, which minimizes the surface area while maximizing the volume. The sphere's surface area is spread out evenly in all directions, making it more compact and efficient.
Assuming you mean a rectangular prism, you get the smallest surface area if the prism is a cube. You can calculate the required length of side to get that volume; then, based on that, the corresponding surface area.
A sphere
A sphere
The largest organism.
The spherical shape is the smallest surface area for a given volume. This comes about naturally when a surface under pure surface tension contains a fluid volume.
the sphere has the smallest surface area for any given volume.
No, a basketball does not have a high surface-to-volume ratio because the volume of a sphere increases more rapidly than its surface area as its size increases.
A cylindrical protist has a higher surface are to volume ratio. This is because of the physical properties of spheres (some rather complicated math proves that spheres hold the most volume for their area).
Surface area increases as the square of the diameter, whereas the volume increases by the cube.