🌿 Class 3 – Chapter 5 Notes 🌿
Plants and Animals Live Together 🐦🐿️
📘 Summary Notes
👉 Plants and animals live together in nature. Animals depend on plants for food, shelter, and resting.
- 🐘 Elephants eat grass.
- 🕊️ Birds like tailorbirds, owls, barbets, and woodpeckers use plants for nests and shelter.
- 🦋 Butterflies and sunbirds drink nectar from flowers.
- 🐿️ Squirrels use tree hollows for hiding and resting.
- 🐛 Caterpillars chew leaves, while ants build nests with leaves.
- 🦇 Bats and leopards use tree branches to rest.
- 🌱 Soil is the topmost layer of Earth. It contains small pieces of rocks, leaves, roots, insects, and other creatures.
- 🪱 Earthworms, termites, beetles, and grasshoppers live in the soil.
- 🌧️ In the rainy season, new plants grow and more animals appear.
❓ Textbook Questions & Answers
Q1. What was the colour and texture of the two soil specimens that you collected? In which month did you pick them up? Did they smell different?
Ans: The soil near plants was brown and felt grainy. After rain, it became damp and soft. Yes, they smelled different because wet soil has a fresh smell. (🌧️)
Q2. During which month did fresh new leaves appear on the plant you were observing?
Ans: Fresh new leaves appeared in the month of spring or after rains. 🌱
Q3. Which animals, birds and insects did you notice around plants?
Ans: I noticed 🐦 birds, 🦋 butterflies, 🐜 ants, 🪱 earthworms, 🐿️ squirrels and 🦎 lizards near plants.
Q4. Recall and write about how animals, birds and insects rely on plants. Which one was your favourite example?
Ans: Animals rely on plants for food 🍎, nectar 🌸, shelter 🪺, and resting. My favourite is the tailorbird stitching leaves to make its nest. 🕊️
Q5. What is soil made up of?
Ans: Soil is made up of tiny pieces of rocks, old leaves, roots, stems, insects and dead animals. 🪱
📝 Activity – Observation Table
| I Saw... | It was on... | What was it doing? |
|---|---|---|
| 🐞 Red bug | Rotting fruit | Eating |
| 🦋 Butterfly | Lantana flower | Drinking nectar |
| 🦎 Lizard | Rock | Resting |
| 🐜 Ants | Leaves | Building nest |
🌸 Caterpillar to Butterfly – Life Cycle
- 1️⃣ Caterpillar eats leaves.
- 2️⃣ One day it stops eating.
- 3️⃣ It forms a cocoon.
- 4️⃣ After some days, it comes out as a butterfly.
- 5️⃣ Finally, the butterfly flies away. 🦋