Polygons are shapes with straight sides that meet at vertices and form a closed figure. They are found throughout nature, with examples including snowflakes (6-sided hexagons), honeycombs (hexagons and pentagons), and flower petals (often featuring symmetrical polygons). Polygons are classified by the number of sides, so a shape with 3 sides is a triangle.

1. POLYGONS IN NATURE

2.  A polygon is a plane figure that is bounded
by a finite chain of straight line
segments closing in a loop to form a closed
chain or circuit.

3.  The interior of the polygon is sometimes
called its body.

4.  An n-gon is a polygon with n sides; for
example, a triangle is a 3-gon

5. EXAMPLES