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What is a boardfoot?
144 inches cubed (12x12x1in)
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Gasoline used per person per day (US)
1.4 gallons
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Fortnight
14 days
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Galactic Year
2.5x10^8 years
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jiffy
1/60th or 1/100th of a second (both are used)
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nanoacre
.006 inches squared
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Metric Prefix: 24
yotta
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Metric Prefix: 21
zetta
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Metric Prefix: 18
exa
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Metric Prefix: 15
peta
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Metric Prefix: 12
tera
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Metric Prefix: 9
giga
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Metric Prefix: 6
mega
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Metric Prefix: 3
kilo
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Metric Prefix: 2
hecto
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Metric Prefix: 1
deca
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Metric Prefix: -1
deci
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Metric Prefix: -2
centi
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Metric Prefix: -3
milli
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Metric Prefix: -6
micro
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Metric Prefix: -9
nano
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Metric Prefix: -12
pico
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Metric Prefix: -15
femto
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Metric Prefix: -18
atto
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Metric Prefix: -21
zepto
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Metric Prefix: -24
yocto
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attoparsec
.03m
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olympic size swimming pool
2500 meters cubed (25x50x2)
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foe
10^44 J
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square
100 ft squared
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shot glass
1 oz, 25-30 mL
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characters (letters) in the bible
4.5 million
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SA of pacific ocean
6x10^7 miles squared
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Area of US
4x10^6 miles squared
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Moon to earth
2.4x10^5 miles
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furlong
201 meters
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rod
5.5 yards
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Jupiter radius
7x10^7 meters
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Jupiter Mass
2x10^27 kg
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hubble-barn
13.1 L
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Hiroshima bomb (joules)
6x10^13 J
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Horse Length
8 ft
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Mariana Trench Depth
35,000 feet
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1 AU
93 million miles
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Lake Erie Volume
116 miles cubed
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Lake Superior Water Volume
2900 miles Cubed
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meters squared per acre
4000
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acres in a square mile
640
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Weight of Full loaded boeing 747
360 tons
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Royal Albert Hall Volume
3.5 million feet cubed
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Volume of Pacific Ocean
1.3x10^8 miles cubed
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Mt. Everest Heightt
29,000 ft
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Oil per person, per day (US)
3.5 gallons
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Sun Radius
700,000 km
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Sun weight
2x10^30 kg
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grave
1 kg
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firkin
9 gallons, 34 liters
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length of interstate system
47,000 miles
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cars in US
255 million
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bag of cement
112 pounds
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shake
10 nanoseconds
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Ton TNT (J)
4x10^9
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Sydney Harbour Volume
500 gigaliters
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siriometer
1 million AU, 16 lightyears
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gallon
3.8 L, 128 oz
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Weight of earth
6x10^24 kg
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twenty foot equivalent
1360 ft cubed
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water used per person per day (US)
150 gallons
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dog year
52 days
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barn
10^-28 meters squared
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block
1/10 of a mile
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stere
1 meter cubed
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Cells in human body
about 50 trillion
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10!
3.6x10^6
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15!
1.3x10^12
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20!
2.4x10^18
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25!
1.6x10^25
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30!
2.7x10^32
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35!
1x10^40
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Bacteria on Earth
5x10^40
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Human cell size
10 mcm (long)
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Bacterial cell size
.5-5 mcm (long)
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Virus Size
20-400 nm
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Mass of Earth's atmosphere
5x10^18 kg
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height of Karman line (space boundary)
62 miles
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Effective Volume of atmosphere
4.2x10^9 km cubed
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Volume of atmosphere with Karman line
51x10^9 km cubed
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SA of ice
6x10^6 miles squared
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Effective Height of Atmosphere
8 km
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Speed of Sound (sea level)
761 miles per hour
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Seconds in a day
8.6x10^4
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Seconds in a year
3.1x10^7
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Calories in a Pound (shady)
3500
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Luminosity of the sun
4x10^26 watts
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kilowatt hour conversion to joules
3.6x10^6
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US Energy consumption 2010
3x10^13 kW/h
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us per capita energy use
8.7x10^4 kW/h
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volume of a drop of water
.05 mL
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Average ocean depth
3.8 km
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Pressure at the bottom of the ocean
1000 atmospheres