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Powers of Ten
Earth
Scale: 108 meters = 100 Mm = 100 megameters
North and Central America
Scale: 107 meters = 10 Mm = 10 megameters
California
Scale: 106 meters = 1 Mm = 1 megameter
The San Francisco Bay Area
Scale: 105 meters = 100 km = 100 kilometers
San Francisco
Scale: 104 meters = 10 km = 10 kilometers
Golden Gate Park
Scale: 103 meters = 1 km = 1 kilometer
Japanese Tea Garden
Scale: 102 meters = 100 meters
A Pond with Lily Pads
Scale: 101 meter = 10 meters
The One-Meter Square
Scale: 100 meters = 1 meter: Light takes about 3
nanoseconds to cross this picture
A Lily and a Bee
Scale: 10-1 meters = 0.1 meter = 10 centimeters
A Bee's Head
Scale: 10-2 meters = 1 cm = 1 centimeter
A Bee's Eye
Scale: 10-3 meters = 1 mm = 1 millimeter
Pollen
Scale: 10-4 meters = 100 µm = 100 micrometers
Bacterium
Scale: 10-5 meters = 10 µm = 10 micrometers
Virus on a Bacterium
Scale: 10-6 meters = 1 µm = 1 micrometer
A Virus
Scale: 10-7 meters = 0.1 µm = 0.1 micrometer =
100 nm = 100 nanometers
DNA within a Virus
Scale: 10-8 meters = 10 nm = 10 nanometers
The Structure of DNA
Scale: 10-9 meters = 1 nm = 1 nanometer
The Structure of water molecule
Scale: 10-9 meters = 1 nm = 1 nanometer
The Structure of Oxygen
The Structure of carbon dioxide