A polyhedron can have any number of faces 4 or higher.
A square pyramid is a polyhedron with a square base and triangular sides that meet at a point at the top. This gives this pyramid five faces.
A square pyramid has 5 vertices and 8 edges. A square pyramid has a square for a base and four triangular faces that connect at the top. The top is one vertex. The four corners of the square base are the other four vertices. The square base has four edges. The other four edges extend from the vertex at the top to the vertices of the square base. This pyramid also has 5 faces.
It's an Octohedron, which has 8 triangular faces. Think of one of the great pyramids in Egypt, with a square base and four triangular sides. Take two of these, turn one upside down, and glue them together along the square base. You wind up with 8 triangular faces, and 12 edges!
A polyhedron with the fewest number of faces is a triangular pyramid - it has four faces including the base.
A pyramid has a polygonal base with all other sides being triangles. As the Egyptians famously demonstrated, a common pyramid has a square base with four triangles meeting at a vertex, but any polygon - regular or irregular - can be used as the base of such a polyhedron.
A square based pyramid.
A square based pyramid.
A polyhedron that has two congruent faces is called a prism. It means that when it is cut at the cross-section, the shape is the same as its base.
A square pyramid is a polyhedron with a square base and triangular sides that meet at a point at the top. This gives this pyramid five faces.
A polyhedron with a polygon base and triangular sides that all meet at a common vertex is called a pyramid. The base can be any polygon (such as a triangle, square, or pentagon), and the triangular faces connect each edge of the base to the apex or common vertex at the top. Pyramids are named based on the shape of their base; for example, a pyramid with a square base is called a square pyramid.
A polyhedron that has a face that is not a base is a triangular prism. In a triangular prism, the two triangular faces serve as the bases, while the three rectangular faces are considered lateral faces. These lateral faces are not bases, demonstrating that a polyhedron can have faces that are not classified as bases.
An octahedron formed by joining together (base-to-base) two square-based pyramids.
A polyhedron with a polygon base and triangular sides that all meet at a common vertex is known as a pyramid. The base can be any polygon, such as a triangle, square, or pentagon, and the triangular sides are called lateral faces. The vertex where all the triangular faces converge is referred to as the apex of the pyramid. Each type of pyramid is named based on the shape of its base, such as a triangular pyramid or a square pyramid.
It sounds like you are describing a square pyramid. A square pyramid has a square base and four triangular faces that converge at a single vertex or apex. This geometric shape is a type of polyhedron known as a pyramid, characterized by its base shape and the triangular faces that connect the base to the apex.
There would be 8 faces. Each square pyramid has 1 square face (its base) and 4 triangular faces. When you glue the squares together, you get a new polyhedron with 8 faces.
A shape with five square faces is known as a square pyramid. It consists of a square base and four triangular faces that converge at a single apex. However, if you are specifically looking for a polyhedron with five square faces, that would be a square bipyramid, which consists of two square pyramids joined at their bases.
A regular polyhedron has equal size faces as in the case of a tetrahedron which is a triangular base pyramid that has 4 equilateral triangle faces.