* The distance between cities
* The length of a road
* The height of a mountain
For very small objects, we use much smaller units of measurement, like:
* Millimeters (mm): The thickness of a coin, the width of a fingernail
* Centimeters (cm): The length of a pen, the height of a small book
* Micrometers (µm): The width of a human hair, the size of a bacteria
* Nanometers (nm): The size of a virus, the thickness of a cell membrane
To give you an idea of scale, 1 kilometer is equal to 1,000,000 millimeters!