Both, a cylinder and a prism have two faces (bases) at either end. These are parallel and identical. A plane that is parallel to these bases will cut the cylinder (or prism) in identical cross sections.
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A cylinder has to parallel bases (circles) therefore a cylinder is circular prism
A Cylinder
A cylinder has a circular cross section, a rectangular prism has a rectangular cross section.
Area=Bh when B=area of the base, and h=height of the prism/cylinder
Both the cylinder and rectangular prism are solid objects. Volume of both can be found by multiplying the area of the base by the height.