Look at the exponitial factor. If it is like 10^2 or like 10^10 the number is very big because it is raised to a very big power. Oppisitely, when it is rasied to a negative number, the number producted will have many decimal places. For example 10^-1 is literaly 0.1.
Scientific notation uses exponential notation. When a number is written in scientific notation, the exponent tells you if the term is a large or a small number. A positive exponent indicates a large number and a negative exponent indicates a small number that is between 0 and 1.
