Everything that surrounds us - air, water, earth, plants and animals - is nature. It can be alive and inanimate. Living nature is man, animals, flora, microorganisms. That is, it is everything that can breathe, eat, grow and multiply. Inanimate nature is stones, mountains, water, air, the Sun and the Moon. They may not change and remain in the same state for many millennia. Connections between living and non-living nature exist. All of them interact with each other. Below is a diagram of animate and inanimate nature, which will be discussed in this article.
Relationship on the example of plants
Our surrounding world, living, inanimate nature cannot exist separately from each other. For example, plants are objects of wildlife and cannot survive without sunlight and air, since it is from the air that plants receive carbon dioxide for their existence. As you know, it starts the nutrition processes in plants. receivePlants get their nutrients from the water, and the wind helps them reproduce by spreading their seeds across the ground.
Animal Relationship
Animals also cannot do without air, water, food. For example, a squirrel eats nuts that grow on a tree. She can breathe air, she drinks water, and just like plants, she cannot exist without solar heat and light.
A visual diagram of animate and inanimate nature and their relationship are shown below.
The appearance of inanimate nature
Inanimate nature originally appeared on Earth. The objects related to it are the Sun, the Moon, water, earth, air, mountains. Over time, the mountains turned into soil, and the solar heat and energy allowed the first microbes and microorganisms to appear and multiply first in the water, and then on the ground. On land, they learned to live, breathe, eat and reproduce.
Properties of inanimate nature
Inanimate nature appeared first, and its objects are primary.
Properties that are characteristic of objects of inanimate nature:
- They can be in three states: solid, liquid and gaseous. In the solid state, they are resistant to environmental influences and strong in their form. For example, it is earth, stone, mountain, ice, sand. In a liquid state, they can be in an indefinite form: fog, water, cloud, oil, drops. Objects in the gaseous state are air and steam.
- Representatives of inanimate nature do notfeed, do not breathe and cannot reproduce. They can change their size, reduce or increase it, but on condition that this happens with the help of material from the external environment. For example, an ice crystal can increase in size by attaching other crystals to it. Stones can lose their particles and shrink in size under the influence of winds.
- Inanimate objects cannot be born and, accordingly, die. They appear and never disappear. For example, mountains cannot disappear anywhere. Undoubtedly, some objects are capable of transitioning from one of their states to another, but cannot die. For example, water. It is able to exist in three different states: solid (ice), liquid (water) and gaseous (steam), but it still exists.
- Inanimate objects cannot move on their own, but only with the help of external environmental factors.
Differences between inanimate and living nature
The difference from living organisms, a sign of inanimate nature is that they cannot reproduce. But, appearing in the world once, inanimate objects never disappear or die - except when, under the influence of time, they pass into another state. So, after a certain amount of time, stones may well turn into dust, but, changing their appearance and their state, and even disintegrating, they do not stop their existence.
The appearance of living organisms
Connections between animate and inanimate nature arose immediately after the appearance of objects of wildlife. After all, nature and objects of wildlife could appear only under certain favorable environmental conditions and directly through special interaction with objects of inanimate nature - with water, soil, air and the Sun and their combination. The relationship between animate and inanimate nature is inseparable.
Life cycle
All representatives of wildlife live their cycle of life.
- A living organism can eat and breathe. Connections between animate and inanimate nature, of course, are present. So, living organisms are able to exist, breathe and eat with the help of inanimate objects of nature.
- Living beings and plants can be born and develop. For example, a plant comes from a small seed. An animal or a person appears and develops from an embryo.
- All living organisms have the ability to reproduce. Unlike mountains, plants or animals can change life cycles and generations endlessly.
- The life cycle of any living creature always ends in death, that is, they pass into another state and become objects of inanimate nature. Example: the leaves of plants or trees no longer grow, do not breathe and do not need air. The corpse of an animal in the ground decomposes, its constituents become part of the earth, minerals and chemical elements of soil and water.
Wildlife Objects
Wildlife objects are:
- people;
- animals;
- birds;
- plants;
- fish;
- algae;
- parasites;
- microbes.
Inanimate objects
Inanimate objects include:
- stones;
- reservoirs;
- stars and heavenly bodies;
- earth;
- mountains;
- air, wind;
- chemical elements;
- soil.
Connections of animate and inanimate nature are present everywhere.
For example, the wind blows the leaves off the trees. Leaves are an object of living nature, and the wind refers to inanimate objects.
Example
The relationship between animate and inanimate nature can be seen in the example of a duck.
Duck is a living organism. She is an object of nature. The duck makes its home in the reeds. In this case, it is associated with the plant world. The duck is looking for food in the water - a connection with inanimate nature. With the help of the wind, it can fly, the sun warms and gives its light necessary for life. Plants, fish and other organisms are food for her. The heat of the sun, sunlight and water help the life of her offspring.
If at least one component is removed from this chain, then the life cycle of the duck is disrupted.
All these relationships are studied by living, inanimate nature. Grade 5 in the secondary school on the subject of "natural science" is completely devoted to this topic.
