2. The Great Pea Analogy And you

3. 100 peas (1x10 2 ) How much volume do you think 100 average size peas would take up? They would occupy approximately one cubic inch. (Although personally, I think you may need to mush them together to make them fit)

4. One Million peas (1 x 10 6 ) How much volume do you think a million peas would occupy?

5. The volume of a refrigerator

6. What about a Billion peas? (1 x 10 9 ) Approximately the volume of an average house (do not try this at home)

7. A Whole House???? Yes an entire house from the basement to the attic full of peas

8. What about a trillion peas? (1 x 10 12 ) About 1000 houses (the size of a medium size town. But are we even close to a mole of peas? Oh no – not even close!

9. Alright then, what about a quadrillion peas (1 x 10 15 ) That is a lot of peas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Enough to fill all the buildings in Mississauga!

10. Are we close to a mole yet? NO Not yet

11. OK what about a quintillion peas (1 x 10 18 ) Well that would be enough peas to cover the entire province of Ontario with peas nearly 4 feet deep!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! But still not even close to a mole of peas I am sorry I could not find a photo of Ontario covered in 4 feet of peas

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13. What about a Sextillion peas? (1 x 10 21 ) Yes this is a real number! This would be enough peas to cover all the continents of the world with peas 4 feet deep. Imagine North America, Africa, South America, Europe, Australia, Asia, all covered with 4 feet of peas!!!!!!! Still not close to a mole of peas

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15. Well how much room would a mole of peas take up then? Imagine 250 planets the size of the Earth completely covered with 4 feet of peas. This would be a mole of peas Give or take a few peas of course

17. How many peas would I have if they were the same as the number of atoms in my body??????????????????????????? A cotillion peas (1 x 10 27 )

18. That blanket of peas Would be 4 feet deep And cover 250,000 planets the size of earth!!!!!!!!!! Wow a mole is a really big number then. So everything that contains a mole of atoms must be really big right????

19. NO Because atoms are very small!