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Class 6 Science Chapter 6 The Living Organisms Characteristics and Habitats
Class 6 Science Chapter 6 The Living Organisms Characteristics and Habitats, class 6 science chapter 6 extra questions.
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(a) The presence of specific features, which enable a plant or an animal to live in a particular habitat, is called …………….
(b) The habitats of the plants and animals that live on land are called ……habitat.
(c) The habitats of plants and animals that live in water are called ………..habitat.
(d) Soil, water and air are the ………factors of a habitat.
(e) Changes in our surroundings that make us respond to them, are called ……
Answers
- Adaptation
- Terrestrial
- Aquatic
- Abiotic
- Stimuli
Answer the following questions:
Q. What is a habitat?
ANS – A habitat is an environment in which organisms live. The organisms rely on their habitat for food, water, air, shelter, and other necessities.
Q. How are cactus adapted to survive in a desert?
ANS – Plants in the desert, such as cactus, lose very little water by transpiration. Desert plants have leaves that are either absent, very small, or in the form of spines. A stem is a leaf-like structure that you see on a cactus. The stem of a cactus plant is usually responsible for photosynthesis. A thick waxy layer covers the stem as well, which helps in water retention.
Q. Give an example of a non-living thing, which shows any two characteristics of living things.
ANS – Even though a car or a bus can move, and make sounds we consider them to be non-living.
Q. Which of the things in the following list is nonliving?Plough, Mushroom, Sewing machine, Radio, Boat, Water hyacinth, Earthworm
ANS – Non Living things are Plough, Sewing machine, Radio, and Boat.
Q. Which of the non-living things listed below, were once part of a living thing? Butter, Leather, Soil, Wool, Electric bulb, Cooking oil, Salt, Apple, Rubber
ANS – Butter, leather, wool, cooking oil, apple, and rubber are part of living things, butter, leather, and wool we can get from animals while cooking oil, apple, and rubber we get from plants.
Q. List the common characteristics of living things.
ANS – All living things share some common characteristics. They all require food, breathe, respond to stimuli, reproduce, move, grow, and die.
Q. Explain, why speed is important for survival in the grasslands for animals that live there. (Hint: There are few trees or places for animals to hide in grassland habitats.)
ANS – There are so many trees, plants, or places for animals to hide in grassland habitats. When predators attack they can run fast and hide from them that is the reason speed is more important in such a habitat.
Class 6 Science Chapter 6 Extra Questions
