INDUS UNIVERSAL SCHOOL, SAINIKPURI, SECUNDERABAD

(Sri LakshmiSaraswathi Educational Society and Affiliated to Central Board of Secondary Education, New Delhi)
Practice Worksheet
Grade: III Subject:SCIENCE

Lesson - Living and Non-living things

*What you already know:

Things which are alive called living things and which are not alive called
non-living things.

*What you have to learn:

Natural
Things
Non Living our Man Made
Things surroundings Things

Living
Things

1. Natural things are made by nature.

Example: The sun, moon, stars, rivers, mountains, plants, animals.
2. Man-made things are made by man.
Example: toys, vehicles, furniture, buildings, books etc.
3. Living things can move, feel, grow, feed, breathe and reproduce.
Example: animals, all green plants, human beings.
 feel

feed grow
Living
Things breathe
move

reproduce

4. Non-living things do not move, feel, grow, feed, breathe and reproduce.
Example: All man-made things are the example of non-living things.

do not feel

do not feed
Non do not grow

Living
do not move Things do not
breath
do not
reproduce

Interesting facts about living things:

1. All living things grow in size.
2. They need to move from one place to another place in search of food and
shelter.
3. Fish use their fins to swim. Fish breathe through gills.
4. Plants are also living things. They do not move but their various parts
move.
5. Plants make their own food with the help of sunlight, air, water and
chlorophyll.
6. Plants breathe through stomata.
7. Most of the animals like dog, lion, monkey and human beings breathe
through the lungs.
8. Insects like butterflies, cockroach, mosquitoes etc breathe through
spiracles.
9. Earthworms breathe through the skin.
10. Human beings and some of the animals reproduce or give birth to their
babies.
11.All living things have a certain life span or age to be alive.
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These are the videos based on living things and non-living things.
 Worksheet -1
Q1. Find out five living and non-living things from the grid.

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n n l s c d a t
c x i q k g b b
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l a n c a p e r
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w l a a g a t o
s e s i m n h w
c v t r x t n l

SN Living things Non-living things

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Q2. Complete the following chart:

r________

Living things
g__________ m__________
can ....

b___________
 Worksheet -2
Q. Complete the following activities:
1. Make a list of living things and non-living things which you find
in your house.

Sn Living things Non-living things

2. Draw any two living and non-living things and colour it.
 Worksheet -3
1. Define the following terms:
a) spiracles - ________________________________________.
b) stomata - _________________________________________.
2. Fill in the blanks:
a) fish use their ________ to swim in water.
b) _______________ do not have a life span.
c) All ___________ things can feel the changes around them.
d) Insects breathe through __________.
e) Small pores present in the leaf are called _________.
d) Earthworms breathe through the _________.
e) Green plants make their own food with the help of _________
___________, __________and chlorophyll.

3. Answer the following questions:

a) Write any five differences between living and non-living
things.
Sn Living things Non-living things
b) Give any two examples of :
a) Living things - ___________ ____________

b) Non-living things- ____________ ____________

c) Man-made things- ___________ ___________

d) Natural things- ____________ ___________

4. Give reason:
a) A chair can not give birth to a small chair. Why?
Ans. _____________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________.
b) Plants do not move in search of food. Why?
Ans. _____________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________.
c) Rima planted a sapling in a jar but she covered it with a lid. the
plant died. Why?
Ans. _____________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________.

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