GENERAL SCIENCE

CLASS III

AIR, WATER AND WEATHER

IN THIS CHAPTER, WE SHALL LEARN ABOUT…

AIR AROUND US
• COMPOSITION OF AIR
• AIR POLLUTION

WATER
• FORMS OF WATER
• CHANGE IN STATES OF WATER
• WATER CYCLE
• WATER CONSERVATION

WEATHER
• FACTORS AFFECTING WEATHER
• DIFFERENT SEASONS
 CAN YOU SOLVE THESE RIDDLES?

If you drop a yellow hat in the Red If you were swimming in the ocean
Sea, what does it become? and a big alligator attacked you,
what would you do?
WET
NOTHING, THERE ARE NO
ALLIGATORS IN OCEANS.
Who Am I?
I can be sparkling but I’m not a star, I go solid in freezers,
I can run but I don’t have any legs, In rivers I can flow,
I can fall but I don’t get hurt, My chemical formula
I’m found in a bath but I’m not a rubber duck,
I can help you clean but I’m not soap!  Is known as H2O!

WATER
WATER
❑ One hot day, a thirsty crow flew all over the fields looking for water. For a long
time, he could not find any. He felt very weak, almost lost all hope…and so on… the
story continues…it tells us the importance of water for all living beings.  

❑ Water is an essential thing for life to exist on the Earth.

 Earth: The blue planet!

Water constitutes most of the Earth’s surface area.

It is vital for all the known life forms on this Earth.

Pure water has no taste, no colour and no odour or smell.

 SOURCES OF
WATER

GROUND SURFACE RAIN

WATER WATER WATER

WELLS NATURAL
SPRINGS

STREAMS LAKES OCEANS RIVERS RESERVOIRS

 DO YOU KNOW THIS?
SOLID

ICE

LIQUID

GAS WATER
VAPOUR

Water is the only substance which naturally exists in 3 forms on

the Earth…SOLID, LIQUID and GAS.
 SOLID

▪ Ice is the solid form of water.

▪ Water freezes in very cold condition i.e. at very low temperature
and changes to ice, which is the solid form.
▪ It can also freeze in the atmosphere in form of snow/hail.
 LIQUID

• Water that we drink and that can flow is the liquid

form of water.
• Water remains in liquid form at room temperature.
 GAS

• Steam or water vapour is the gaseous form of water.

• When water is heated, it is converted into water vapour.
SOLIDS, LIQUIDS, GASES AROUND US…
• SOLIDS, LIQUIDS
AND GASES HAVE
SOME DIFFERENT
PROPERTIES.
• THEY ARE
DIFFERENT FROM
EACH OTHER IN
THEIR
CHARACTERISTICS.

LET US COMPARE
THEM:
 LET’S COMPARE

Solids have a Liquids have no shape of Gases also do not

fixed shape and their own. They take the have a fixed shape or
size. It does not shape of the container in size. Gases can fill
change. which they are kept. the entire container.
 Can all the three states flow?
Solids cannot flow. Liquids can flow from Gases can flow in
They are rigid. a higher level to a all directions.
lower level.
 Boiling
Point of
Ice always Water is
float on 100°
water as it is Celsius
less dense.
Water
freezes
at 0°
Celsius
 NEW TERMS LEARNT TODAY

GAS
STEAM
LIQUID

WATER
SOLID VAPOUR
 A MIND JOGGER!
s,

You must use the jars and the tap in

such a way as to exactly measure
out 4 litres of water.
 WORK TO BE DONE IN THE GENERAL SCIENCE NOTEBOOK

Q1: Mention the names of three forms of water. Also

draw the three forms.
Q2: Differentiate between the solid, liquid and gas.
Property Solid Liquid Gas

Shape

Flow