Build the key vocabulary of Living and Nonliving Components with this printable picture flash card set for Grade 4 science, aligned to Virginia SOL 4.3. It covers 12 essential terms, from Living Organism and Tree to Temperature. Each term comes as a picture-and-word card and as a picture card with a clear, full-sentence definition, and two labeling worksheets let students show what they know.

What students practice

• Living Organism: A living organism carries out life processes, such as using energy, growing, and responding to its environment.
• Tree: A tree is a living part of an ecosystem that makes food, grows, and provides resources for other organisms.
• Grass: Grass is a living producer that uses light to make food and can provide shelter and food for animals.
• Rabbit: A rabbit is a living consumer that obtains energy by eating plants and depends on suitable food, water, and shelter.
• Mushroom: A mushroom is part of a living fungus that obtains nutrients from other materials rather than making food through photosynthesis.
• Earthworm: An earthworm is a living animal that feeds on organic material and helps mix and loosen the soil.
• Sunlight: Sunlight is a nonliving factor that supplies energy for photosynthesis and influences temperature and conditions in many ecosystems.
• Water: Water is a nonliving resource that organisms need, and its availability helps determine which organisms can survive in a habitat.
• Air: Air is a mixture of gases surrounding organisms, providing materials such as oxygen and carbon dioxide for life processes.
• Rock: A rock is a nonliving component that can provide shelter and slowly break down into smaller pieces within an ecosystem.
• Soil: Soil contains nonliving mineral particles, air, water, and once living material, and it also provides a home for living organisms.
• Temperature: Temperature is a nonliving environmental condition that affects how organisms grow, behave, and survive in their habitats.

What’s included (11 pages)

• 12 color picture-and-word cards
• 12 picture–term–definition cards (4 pages)
• 12 black-and-white picture-and-word cards for low-ink printing or coloring
• 2 picture-labeling worksheets: students write the matching term for each picture (with Name and Class lines)
• Answer key (1 page) for the labeling worksheets

How to use it in class

1. Print the color cards (or the black-and-white set to save ink), cut them apart and laminate them to reuse.
2. Introduce the words with the picture-and-word cards, then use the definition cards to talk about what each term means.
3. Play quick games: show a picture and ask for the term, read a definition and ask which card it matches, or sort the cards into groups.
4. Use the labeling worksheets as an exit ticket, homework or review, and check them with the answer key.
5. Put the cards in a word wall or science center for independent practice.

At a glance

• Grade: 4
• Subject: Science (Living and Nonliving Components)
• Standard: Virginia SOL 4.3
• Pages: 11
• Format: Printable PDF; instant digital download after purchase