A stacked bar chart can be drawn to illustrate the proportions of surface area and volume. In the below table scientists have estimated the surface area:volume ratios of various organisms. Organism: ...

At the same time each of its 6 faces has an area of 1 m² (1 square meter), and a total surface area of 6 square meters, therefore the surface area to volume ratio (or SA:V for short) is 6/1 = 6 m-1.

Our spatially resolved database shows 1.42 million individual polygons of natural lakes with a total surface area of 2.67 × 106 km2 (1.8% of global land area), a total shoreline length of 7.2 × ...

Surface area and volume of a cylinder. Learn about the surface area and volume of a cylinder with this BBC Bitesize Maths article. For students between the ages of 11 and 14.