DATE:
PT1 SAMPLE PAPER (2024-25)
Subject:SCIENCE Max. Marks: 40
Grade: III Time: 1 Hours
Name: Section: Roll No:
General Instructions:
● All questions are compulsory.
● This question paper consists of printed pages.
● All answers should be written in this paper itself.
SECTION- A
I Multiple Choice Questions (1x10-10)
1. 1
Statement A: Natural things can be living or non-living.
Statement B: Living things can only be natural.
A. Statement A is true and statement B is false
B. Statement A is true and statement B is also true
C. Statement A is false and statement B is also false
D. Statement A is false and statement B is true
2. Which of the following shows the features of living things 1
A. A fire spreading through a jungle.
B. A balloon increases in size when inflated.
C. A dog barking at a stranger.
D. A glass breaking while falling down.
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3. All living things need: 1
A) Clothes
B) Toys
C) Water
D) Shoes
4. A touch me not plant closes its leaves on touching. This shows that- 1
A) Plants show movement
B) Plants are non-living things
C) Sunflower is non-living
D) Plants do not grow
5. Choose the non living thing from the following. 1
A) B) C) D)
6. 1
Which one of these needs food to live?
A) Rock
B) Pen
C) Plant
D) Table
7. I don't move 1
I don't grow
I don't reproduce
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Who am I?
A) crow
B) stone
C) cat
D) tree
8. What do you know about the figure given below? 1
fig (8)
A) living things grow
B) living things breathe
C) living things move from one place to another
D) living things feel
9. Insects such as grasshoppers have ___________ for breathing. 1
A) Antennae
B) Air holes
C) Gills
D) lungs
10. How many sense organs do we have? 1
A) Two
B) Three
C) Five
D) Six
SECTION B
II. SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS (8X2= 16) marks
11. Write 2 examples for the following. 2
a. Natural things- __________________
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b. man made things - _________________
12. Match the following 2
1. Tree a. Gills
2. Toy b. Natural
3. Sun c. Living
4. Fish d. Man made
_____ 2. _____ 3. _____ 4. ____
13. Fill the table with the words from the box. 2
cat, horse, lizard, rabbit, Crow,snake, human, cow, hen
Egg laying animals Animals giving birth to young ones
14. 2
Can a chair breathe or grow? Why or why not?
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15. A ball and a rock are both non living things. How are they 2
different from each other?
16. Write one main difference between animals and plants and write one similarity. 2
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17. Write whether the following statements are true or false. 2
a. All natural things are living things.
b. Plants cannot move from one place to another
but it feels changes in climate
c. Fishes swim in water with their gills.
d. Man made things are living things
18. Write two examples to show plants respond to changes in the environment. 2
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SECTION C
LONG ANSWER QUESTIONS (3X2=6)
19. Write the features of a tree, dog and the features common to both in the respective 3
columns. Choose from the options given below.
have sense organ,
make their own
food, eat food,
breathe, have
flowers, reproduce
Tree Dog
20. 3
Living/Non-Living
Living things need air, water, food, and shelter to survive.
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Non-living things are not born. They do not grow, reproduce, grow old or die. Non-
living things can be natural or man-made. All living things breathe, eat, grow, move,
reproduce, and have senses. Non-living things do not eat, grow, breathe, move, and
reproduce. They do not have senses. 10 Living things: human beings, plants,
bacteria, insects, animals, lichens, reptiles, mammals, trees, mosses. 10 Non-Living
things (not alive or living, non-living matter): chair, table, books, bed, newspaper,
clothes, bed sheets, curtains, bag, pen.
(a) We studied sense organs in grade 3. Do you think that non-living things have
sense organs too?
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(b) Read the passage above and write whether bacteria can breathe?
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(c) What do you mean by not alive things?
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IV. SECTION -D
LONG ANSWER QUESTION (1X4=4)
21. Observe the picture and answer the following. 4
a. Write the names of any four living and non living things from the figure.
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b. Write any two differences between living and non living things.
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Look at the pictures below (or imagine them): a cat, a rock, and a tree.
Answer the following:
1. Which of these are living things?
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2. Which one is a non-living thing?
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3. Write one thing that all living things can do.
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4. Draw a living and non living thing from your surrounding
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