What is the volume of a giant cube that measures 10,000 km on each side? Be prepared to explain your reasoning.

1. 1. Complete the table to explore patterns in the exponents when raising a power of 10 to a power. You may skip a single box in the table, but if you do, be prepared to explain why you skipped it.

      expression	expanded	single power of 10

   2. If you chose to skip one entry in the table, which entry did you skip? Why?
2. Use the patterns you found in the table to rewrite as an equivalent expression with a single exponent, like .
3. If you took the amount of oil consumed in 2 months in 2013 worldwide, you could make a cube of oil that measures meters on each side. How many cubic meters of oil is this? Do you think this would be enough to fill a pond, a lake, or an ocean?