Question

Observe given figure carefully and answer the following :

(1) For which purpose is water being used?

(2) Do other living things use water like we do?

(3) What are the constituents of soil? Classify them as biotic and abiotic constituents.

Answer 1

(1) Water is being used for washing clothes, for bathing, farming, drinking, and industries.

(2) Animals do not use water like us. 

They use water only for drinking. 

Some animals like buffaloes, rhinoceros, elephants use water for cooling themselves during summers.

(3) The constituents of soil are humus, soil, sand, gravel, stones, bedrock, insects, worms, microbes, roots of trees and dead leaves, burrowing rodents like mice and rats.

Biotic	Abiotic
Microbes, rodents like mice and rats, humus containing microbes and dead leaves.	Soil, sand, gravel, stones, bedrock.