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Remembering summer. Living and non-living nature

Lessons 1–2 · 2 lessons · Y.V. Malikova. Natural Science Grade 3, Part 1. Novda Edutainment, Tashkent, 2023; Y.V. Malikova. Natural Science Grade 3, Part 2. Novda Edutainment, Tashkent, 2023
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Living and non-living nature

Textbook: Part 1, pp. 10–13
GoalDivide nature into living and non-living parts, tell herbivores, carnivores and omnivores apart, build a food chain, and know the scientists who study nature.
New words
living organism · organizmherbivore · o‘txo‘rfood chain · oziqlanish zanjiri
Explanation

Everything that formed by itself and was not made by people belongs to nature. Nature is living and non-living. Living nature (organisms) grows, breathes, feeds, moves and has offspring; rocks, water, air and the Sun belong to non-living nature. An animal that eats only plants is a herbivore, one that eats other animals is a carnivore, and one that eats both (bear, human) is an omnivore. A food chain shows who eats whom: grass → grasshopper → frog → snake → eagle. Biologists study living things, geographers the Earth’s surface, astronomers space, chemists substances, physicists motion and changes, and ecologists how living and non-living nature are linked.

Worked examples
A cow is a herbivore, a wolf is a carnivore, and a bear is an omnivore.
Chain: grass → rabbit → fox. Here the rabbit eats grass and the fox eats the rabbit.
Class activity

“Living or non-living” game: the teacher names things (bird, stone, tree, cloud, fish, sand). If it is living, children stand up; if non-living, they stay seated. Then in pairs build a three-link food chain.

Practice
1
Which of these belong to living nature: bird, stone, tree, water?
2
What is an animal that feeds only on plants called?
3
In the chain “grass → grasshopper → frog → snake → eagle”, who eats the frog?
4
Which scientists study the stars?