In this activity, we are going to use 1 mm to represent 1 million years. What does 1 cm represent? 1m?
1.0 mm = 1,000,000 years (1 million)
1.00 cm = 10,000,000
1.0000 m = 10,000,000,000
Is this collect?
1 cm = 10 mm
multiplying by 10 is correct.
1000 mm = 1 m
it has to be 1000 times bigger
1,000,000,000