Objective: To identify the living (biotic) and non-living (abiotic) components of the environment.
Given here is a crossword puzzle. Read the clues and fill up the spaces, using one alphabet in each square to make words/terms that represent components of the environment. Then categorise these ten answers into living (biotic) and non-living (abiotic) components of the environment.
The clues:
1. I hold the roots and feed the plants
I house the earthworms, insects and ants!
2. Biotic factor am I
And cannot make my food No matter how hard I try!
3. I may be harsh and sometimes mild
Being abiotic factor temperature is my child!
4. I rise up and make you sweat I fall down,
you shiver like a clown.
5. Invisible as such, although so near
I set the curd
and a distant relative of mine May even cause fever!
6. In the cloud, on the land and under the boat,
Freeze me or heat me, I stay afloat.
7. To prepare food, I stand in the sun.
My kitchens are green, now guess this one.
8. A medium to fly and to stay afloat
You all need me, a plant or a goat.
9. I come at dawn and when the lamp is switched on.
I make the plants grow and even form the rainbow.
10. I make mountains, plateaus on land Parent of gravel, soil and sand.
Reinforcement: Identify at least three biotic and three abiotic components of:
A crop field
An pond/aquarium
A forest
A potted sunflower plant kept in the verandah
for answers, see the table at the end of the blog.
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