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Plants and Animals


Live Together

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Chapter 4, we saw lots of
plants. Have you noticed that where there are
plants, there are animals too? Look carefully and
you will find that there are lots of animals living
on, around and even underneath the plants that
you see!
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Plants and Animals Live Together

Here are some pictures of animals living


together with plants. Which of these animals do
you recognise from the pictures? Which of them
have you seen before? Which of these animals live
under the ground?

Elephants A moth A caterpillar Earthworms on


feeding on resting on a chewing a leaf leaves and soil
grass leaf

A Ants building A colourful


A tailorbird woodpecker their nest using stink bug on a
singing on a tree leaves leaf
trunk

A frog resting A butterfly Squirrels using A barbet using


on a leaf leaf hide and rest nesting
perched on tree hollows to a tree hollow for
a
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Our Wondrous World | Class 3

Which of the animals shown on page 63, have you seen


before? Describe where and how you saw them. Use your
fingers, hands and arms to show how small or big these
animals are!

Why do these animals choose to live near plants?

Life in the Soil


Stand on the soil next to a plant. If you are
comfortable, remove your footwear.
What colour is the soil under your feet?

1
Pick up a little soil near your plant friend with your hands.
• How does it look and feel?
• Is it dry, damp, rough, smooth, hard or grainy?
• Did you find any leaves or insects in the soil?
• Now smell this soil and remember it.

My soil felt Rough Smooth Hard Grainy

My soil had Nothing Leaves Small stones Insects

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Plants and Animals Live Together

Repeat the above


activity a day after it
rains. Remember to
pick up the soil from
the same place. Did you
find any differences in
the look, feel and smell
of the soil?
Pick up a little soil
from another place, far
away from any plants.
Is
it different from the soil that you collected earlier?
In what ways?
Examine the soil more carefully. What small
things do you notice in it?
Soil is the topmost layer of the Earth’s surface.
Soil is made from rocks that have broken up into
tiny pieces, as well as old leaves, roots, stems and
living and dead animals like insects.

Soil has many insects and other creatures


living in it! Some you can see, and some are too
small to see. On the top layer of soil and moving
around between thesmall
grassbeetles and you
and leaves grasshoppers.
might find
insects like ants, termites,
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Our Wondrous World | Class 3

When it rains and the soil is wet, other


creatures like earthworms and millipedes may
appear too. You may also find more grasses and other
plants growing in the soil.

In the monsoons, you may find many more plants and


animals around. Where did these new plants and
animals come from? Why could you not see them earlier?

2
Stand near your plant friend and look around. How many
different animals can you spot? Describe them in
words and fill in the table. You may use the given pictures if
needed.

I saw ... (Describe) It was on ... What was it doing?


A small hopping insect The grass Jumping aound

A thin plant that curls Another plant nearby Nothing

A black bird

Red bugs Blue flying Ants on Butterfly Lizard on a


on a rotting leaves on Lantana rock
fruit insect
Note to the Teacher flowers
Some insects wait for the rains to emerge from the soil. Seeds of
plants may remain in the soil for long periods and sprout when
it rains or they are watered.

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Plants and Animals Live Together

Animals, birds and insects use different parts of plants


for food, shelter and resting.

Camels eat Birds like owls use hollows


leaves of plants in the trees to bring up their
young ones

Squirrels and crows use twigs Monkeys love eating the fruits
from plants to build their of plants
nests and to bring up their
young ones

Sunbirds and butterflies drink Tailorbirds stitch leaves of


nectar from different flowers plants to build their nests

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Our Wondrous World | Class 3

Bats and leopards use the Caterpillars munch on different


branches of trees to rest and leaves of plants for food
for shelter

How many of these animals have you seen? Watch out


for them!

3
Sounds of Birds
• Close your eyes and try to listen to the sounds of
birds. Do you hear any bird sounds?
Can you see which birds are making these sounds?
• Cup your ears with your hands as shown in the
picture and point your face towards the direction of
the bird sound. Can you hear the sound more
clearly?

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Plants and Animals Live Together

Different birds, different sounds


• Recall the bird sounds you have listened to. Try to
produce the sounds that different birds make.
• Now try to write down in the following table the
sound of any birds you have heard.

Name of the bird Sound made


Pigeon Gutru Gu

• If you do not hear any sounds of birds, what do you


think is the reason?
• Do you hear more bird sounds—
In the early morning?
In the afternoon?
In the evening?

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Our Wondrous World | Class 3

Let us reflect
A. Discuss
1. What was the colour and texture of the two soil
specimens that you collected during the previous
activity? In which month did you pick them up?
Did they smell different and can you describe the
smells?
2. During which month did fresh new leaves appear
on the plant that you were observing?
3. Which animals, birds and insects did you notice
around plants?
4. Recall and write about how animals, birds and
insects rely on plants. Which one was your
favourite example?
5. What is soil made up of?
B. Write

Names of two animals


that you observed
near or on plants.

Describe the shape,


size and colours of
these animals.

Guess why these


animals were staying
near these plants.

What other
interesting things
did you notice about
these animals?

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Plants and Animals Live Together

C. Draw
Remember you wrote about your plant friend. Now
try and draw your plant friend. Use different coloured
small dots in your drawing to show the places where
you spotted animals, birds or insects.

D. Put in order
One day Suma found a caterpillar on a tagar plant.
She found it interesting. She observed it for about 10
minutes. It was eating tender leaves continuously. Her
mother came close to her. She guided her to observe
the caterpillar each day. Suma became more curious.
Consult an elder person and organise the following
changes in order.

Now it was a butterfly.

The caterpillar formed a cocoon.

It flew away gently.

One day it stopped eating.


It came out of the cocoon.

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