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Class 3 The World Around Us — We need each other

Say what plants and animals give each other and give us, and tell the help that runs one way from the help that runs the other.

Name: ________________________

  1. 1.Match each of these gifts from plants to what we use it for.

    • Fibre
    • Wood
    • Fruit
    • Shade
    • houses
    • clothes
    • a cool place to sit
    • food

  2. 2.How does the chapter say squirrels come to plant thousands of trees?

    • a) They drop nuts from high branches on purpose
    • b) They dig holes for farmers to sow seeds in
    • c) They carry saplings from place to place
    • d) They bury nuts and then forget where they hid them

  3. 3.A monkey eats a mango and throws out the seed. What does Shambhu's father say will happen?

    • a) A new plant will grow from that seed
    • b) The seed will dry up and blow away
    • c) The monkey will come back and bury it
    • d) The seed will be eaten by an ant

  4. 4.Besides milk, what does the chapter say we get from cows, buffaloes and goats?

    • a) Fruit in the summer
    • b) Wool for blankets
    • c) Wood for the fire
    • d) Their loving company

  5. 5.Plants give us one thing that is spun and woven into the clothes we wear. What is it called?

  6. 6.When do the Grey Wagtails come down to the warmer parts of India?

    • a) During the cold winter months
    • b) Just before the monsoon breaks
    • c) In the hottest weeks of summer
    • d) At the end of the school year

  7. 7.The mango tree Shambhu sat under was a home to more than one kind of animal. Which does the chapter name?

    • a) Ants, termites and beetles
    • b) Goats, cows and buffaloes
    • c) Bats, owls and bees
    • d) Birds, squirrels and monkeys

  8. 8.The chapter names two ways animals help plants. Which pair is it?

    • a) Carrying them indoors in winter
    • b) Watering them, and pulling out weeds around them
    • c) Scattering their seeds, and making the soil fertile with their waste
    • d) Giving them shade, and keeping insects off them

Answer key — Class 3 The World Around Us — We need each other

  1. 1. Fibre → clothes; Wood → houses; Fruit → food; Shade → a cool place to sit
  2. 2. d) They bury nuts and then forget where they hid them
  3. 3. a) A new plant will grow from that seed
  4. 4. d) Their loving company
  5. 5. fibre
  6. 6. a) During the cold winter months
  7. 7. d) Birds, squirrels and monkeys
  8. 8. c) Scattering their seeds, and making the soil fertile with their waste