Table of Contents

• Prequiz
• 1: Tall (and small) tales
• 2: Metric conversions: step to the right, step to the left
• 3: 3 Worlds: Milli, Micro, Nano
• 4: Focus on the microworld
• 5: Small stuff in the microworld
• 6: Next stop... the nanoworld
• 7: End of the line... the picoworld
• 8: What to memorize

What to memorize

I hope you've enjoyed the tours of nanoworld and microworld. In case you'd like a short list to memorize, here's a suggestion:

• 900 um fly's eye
• 100 um paper
• 7 um red blood cell (on the small side for a plant/animal cell)
• 1-10 um bacteria, mitochondria, and chloroplasts

And in the nano world:

• 100 nm viruses
• 10 nm cell membrane
• 2 nm DNA double helix
• 1 nm glucose molecule

If you want a printer-friendly version of this module, you can find it here in a Microsoft Word document. This printer-friendly version should be used only to review, as it does not contain any of the interactive material, and only a skeletal version of problems solved in the module.