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Find a tall stick. That and one good eye are all the tools you’ll need. With the stick in hand, walk exactly 11 paces from the base of the tree and mark the spot by driving the stick into the ground.

The length of an object is the distance from one end to the other. Height measures how tall an object is. You can measure lengths or heights using centimetres and metres. The height of a plant would ...