Class 6 Science — Chapter 10: Living Creatures: Exploring their Characteristics

What you'll learn

• ▸Differentiating Living and Non-living Things
• ▸Movement in Living Beings
• ▸Growth and Nutrition
• ▸Respiration in Living Organisms
• ▸Excretion of Waste Products
• ▸Response to Stimuli
• ▸Reproduction for Continuity of Life
• ▸Life Cycle and Death
• ▸Essential Conditions for Seed Germination

Chapter Summary

--- PAGE 1 --- Chapter 10 Living Creatures: Exploring their Characteristics 0677CH10 Avadhi and Aayush go for a morning walk with their parents. Avadhi notices some shells and tries to pick them up. Her mother advises her not to do so and explains that the shell could be home to a living snail and is actually a part of its body. Avadhi and Aayush wonder how the shell that is not even moving could have a living being inside! Later that day in school, Avadhi and Aayush share this incident with their friends. They approach the teacher to understand how a shell which is not even moving could be a body part of a living snail. The teacher initiates a discussion in the class on living and non-living. Reprint 2025-26 --- PAGE 2 --- Activity 10.1: Let us record We are surrounded by numerous things. Just look around in your classroom and you may find many examples—the pencil that you are holding, the book that you are reading or the pigeon near the window. * List them in Table 10.1 and iden…

Practice Questions from this Chapter

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1. Explain plant respiration simply. Get Solution →
2. Name living things around us. Get Solution →
3. List animal movement examples. Get Solution →
4. What is the process by which living beings produce new individuals of their own kind? Get Solution →
5. According to the chapter, what are the tiny pores on the surface of leaves that help plants with respiration called? Get Solution →
6. What is the removal of waste products, such as sweat and urine, from the body called? Get Solution →
7. The chapter mentions a plant that folds its leaves when touched. What is the common name for this plant? Get Solution →
8. Which process is described as taking air in (inhaling) and moving air out (exhaling)? Get Solution →

Did you know?

• 💡 The Venus flytrap snaps shut in less than a second.
• 💡 A blue whale calf gains 200 pounds every single day.
• 💡 Jellyfish don't have brains but can still hunt and move.
• 💡 Some fungi can eat plastic and turn it into food.
• 💡 Sloths move so slowly that algae grow on their fur.

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