Heights & Distances Flashcards
Height of a baskeball hoop
10 feet tall
Height of a telephone pole
40 feet tall
Height of the Space Needle
605 feet tall
Height of the Burj Khalifa
2700 feet tall
.5 miles
Height of Mount Everest
29029 feet tall
5.4 miles
Height of Near space
10-99 miles away
Height of ISS
254 miles
Distance to the moon
238,000 miles
Distance to Mars (closest)
34,800,000 miles
Distance from Palo Alto to Mountain View
6 miles
Distance from San francisco to San Jose
50 miles
Distance from San Francisco to Los Angeles
400 miles
Distance from Los Angeles to New York
2800 miles
Earth’s circumference
24,901 miles
Jupiter’s circumference
272,936 miles
Mass of an average human
70 kilograms
Mass of an average African elephant
5,000 kilograms
Mass of the earth
6,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 kilograms (24 zeros)
Approximately how many trees are on earth?
3 trillion
How wide is the Milky Way?
100,000 light years
Approximately how many stars are in the Milky Way?
100-400 billion
Approximately how many galaxies are there in the universe?
100-200 billion
