(1) The height of the desk is about 70cm.
(2) A penny is about 1mm thick;
(3) The thickness of the math textbook is about 8 mm;
(4) Your home is about 3 kilometers away from school;
(5) The east-west distance of China is about 5,500 kilometers;
An elephant weighs about 4 tons.
So the answer is: cm, mm, mm, km, km, ton.