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How Big Are Things?
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small | Real world
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big | solar system | between | galaxy | ||||||||||||||||||||
nano
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micro
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meter
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kilo
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Mega
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Giga
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Tera
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Peta
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Exa
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Zettameter's Room - looking at a sheet of graph paper |
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look at the entire room |
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galaxy | 21 | |
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20 19 | ||
local stars | 18 | |
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17 16 | ||
between | 15 | |
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14 13 | ||
E's orbit | 12 | |
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11 10 | ||
sun | 9 | |
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8 7 | ||
texas | 6 | |
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5 4 | ||
hood | 3 | |
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2 1 | ||
you | 0 | |
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-1 -2 | ||
salt grain | -3 | |
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-4 -5 | ||
bacteria | -6 | |
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-7 -8 | ||
atom | -9 |
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Mega parsecs (Mpc) | |||
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