NCERT Solutions for Class 4 The World Around Us Chapter 3 Nature Trail (PDF) – 2027

Yes. I have seen a banyan tree near our village temple, with its hanging roots touching the ground. I have seen butterflies on the flowers in our school garden, and a spider weaving its web in a corner of our window. I have not yet seen a bird dive into water.

Abha Didi answers: “That is what we have to find out!” Nobody can promise which animals we will see in a forest. She also says that we must make sure we do not harm the plants and animals in the forest.

(b) We should not shout or make loud noises.
(c) We should not throw plastic or any garbage there.
(d) We should not pluck leaves and flowers or break branches.

My list had rules 3, 4, 6 and 8. I had missed rules 1, 2, 5 and 7: be careful in a new place, do not tease animals, do not bring pets or weapons, and do not damage public utilities.

These rules keep the plants and animals safe, and keep us safe too. The forest is the home of plants and animals; we are only visitors. Teasing or feeding animals harms them, plastic and garbage can kill them, and being careful in a new place keeps us from getting hurt.

Animals: monkeys, a bear, gaur, a nilgai and spotted deer.
Birds: sparrows, parrots and blue birds.

Birds have wings and feathers, so they fly in the sky. The monkey climbs trees but cannot fly, so it goes with the land animals.

The Indian Giant Squirrel is much bigger than the squirrel near my home. It is deep red-brown, while ours is grey-brown with three light stripes on its back. Its bushy tail is much longer. It lives high in forest trees, while ours runs about on walls and garden trees.

Sarthak guesses: “maybe a deer or a tiger? Or, a rabbit?” From the shapes of the footprints, our guess is: 1 — a tiger, 2 — a deer, 3 — a bird.

1 — a tiger. 2 — a deer. 3 — a bird, such as an egret.

Set 1 has round paw marks, set 2 has pointed hoof marks and set 3 has thin, spread-out toes.

Footprints that are easy to find near a home.

(1) Parrot    (2) Sparrow    (3) Duck    (4) Eagle

No single tool picks up every food well — just as no single beak suits every food.

— a diary page for a house crow, the bird drawn on the book’s card.

At home I find ants, houseflies, mosquitoes and cockroaches. Around my home I see butterflies, honeybees, grasshoppers and dragonflies.

(a) Butterfly   (b) Cockroach   (c) Beetle   (d) Dragonfly   (e) Ant   (f) Praying mantis   (g) Grasshopper

(a) Peepal   (b) Bamboo   (c) Banyan   (d) Teak   (e) Mango   (f) Guava   (g) Rose

Yes. These lines are called veins. In some leaves, like banana and grass, the veins run side by side. In others, like peepal and mango, smaller veins branch out from a thick middle vein like a net.

Yes. All living beings are connected through food and shelter. Plants need the Sun, water and air. Animals eat plants or other animals, and many live on trees. In the game each connection is a thread of yarn, and all the threads together make a web.

The web becomes weak and may fall apart. If the deer is removed, the tiger has no food. If the plants are removed, plant-eating animals go hungry, and so do the animals that eat them. This shows that everything in nature is connected.

I would love to be an eagle. Its sharp eyes would let me spot a small animal from high up in the sky. Its wide wings would let me fly over hills, and its strong claws would help me hold on to any branch.

Plants and animals depend on each other for food and shelter. Deer and elephants eat plants, and tigers eat deer. Birds, monkeys and insects live on trees. Birds and animals carry seeds to new places, so new plants grow. Fallen leaves and animal waste make the soil rich for plants.

A nature scientist studies plants and animals. She watches them closely where they live, notes what they look like, what they eat and how they move, finds out how they depend on each other, and teaches others to protect them. Abha Didi, a nature scientist, guided the students in the forest.

Besides TIGER, 12 more words are hidden — 9 across and 3 down.

Across: WEB, SPARROWS, EGRET, BANYAN, ELEPHANTS, DEER, SNAKE, SQUIRREL, KINGFISHER
Down: HORNBILL, FOOTPRINT, BISON

The solved grid:

— my guide sheet for a walk in the park.

Sample plan: Make trees of green chart paper and a pond from a blue sheet. Some children act as plants and animals, and some as visitors with a guide. The visitors come in noisily and throw litter, and the animals hide. The guide reminds them of the safety rules. They clean up and sit quietly, and the animals come back.

Take a square sheet of old newspaper and follow the nine pictures: fold it into a triangle and then a diamond, fold the side flaps out, cut and fold the lowest flap to shape the shell, fold up the head, turn the paper over and draw two eyes.

(for Madhya Pradesh, where Pachmarhi is): state animal — barasingha (swamp deer); state bird — dudhraj (Indian paradise flycatcher); state tree — banyan. Write the names for your own state.