What are tonnes?

A tonne is like a super-heavy shopping bag that can hold as much as 1000 big bags of sugar.

Imagine you're at the grocery store, and you fill up one bag with sugar, that’s about a kilogram. If you filled 1000 of those bags, all together they would weigh a tonne. That's like having a whole bunch of candy bars or toys stacked up really high!

How big is a tonne?

A tonne is the same as 1000 kilograms. So if you had 1000 of your favorite toys, and each one weighed about a kilogram, all together they'd weigh a tonne.

You might not see a tonne every day, but think about big things like cars or trucks, sometimes they can weigh several tonnes! It’s like having lots and lots of bags of sugar all tied together.

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  1. A tonne is like the weight of a small car.
  2. Imagine carrying ten bags of sugar, that's about one tonne.
  3. If you have 1000 kilograms, you have one tonne.

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