NCERT Solutions for Class 6 Science Chapter 9 The Living Organisms Characteristics and Habitats

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NCERT Solutions for Class 6 Science Chapter 9, The Living Organisms Characteristics and Habitats, are prepared as per the latest CBSE syllabus (2022-2023). Detailed answers provided here assist students in getting complete knowledge of the different habitats of living organisms and adaptation to the habitats. These NCERT Solutions will familiarise them with surroundings where plants and animals live, sharing of habitats, a variety of animals living in different places, abiotic components and common characteristics of living organisms.

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NCERT Solutions for Class 6 Science Chapter 9 The Living Organisms Characteristics and Habitats

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Exercise Questions

1. What is a habitat?

Solution:

The place where organisms live is called the habitat. Habitat means a dwelling place (a home). The habitat provides food, water, air, shelter and other needs to organisms.

2. How is a cactus adapted to survive in a desert?

Solution:

Adaptations of a cactus are as follows:

• The leaf is replaced by the spine to reduce transpiration
• Stems carry out photosynthesis
• A thick waxy layer surrounds the leaf to retain water
• The roots of a cactus are deeply rooted inside the soil to absorb water

3. Fill in the blanks

(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 ————habitats.

(d) Soil, water and air are the ———— factors of a habitat.

(e) Changes in our surroundings that make us respond to them are called ————.

Solution:

(a) The presence of specific features, which enable a plant or an animal to live in a particular habitat, is called adaptation.

(b) The habitats of the plants and animals that live on land are called terrestrial habitats.

(c) The habitats of plants and animals that live in water are called aquatic habitats.

(d) Soil, water and air are the abiotic factors of a habitat.

(e) Changes in our surroundings that make us respond to them are called stimuli.

4. Which of the things in the following list are nonliving?

Plough, mushroom, sewing machine, radio, boat, water hyacinth, earthworm

Solution:

Plough, sewing machine, radio and boat are nonliving things

5. Give an example of a nonliving thing which shows any two characteristics of living things.

Solution:

Example: car

Features

• It can move like living beings
• It needs energy to do work

6. Which of the nonliving things listed below were once part of a living thing?

Butter, Leather, soil, wool, electric bulb, cooking oil, salt, apple, rubber

Solution:

Butter, Leather, wool, cooking oil, apple and rubber were once part of a living thing.

7. List the common characteristics of living things.

Solution:

Common characteristics of living things are as follows:

i) Respiration

ii) Food intake

iii) Respond to stimuli

iv) Excretion

v) Movement

vi) Reproduction

vii) Grow and die

8. 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.)

Solution:

Speed is important for survival in the grasslands for animals to avoid predation from their predators. For example, a tiger eats deer; to survive, the deer has to run faster than the tiger.

Important topics covered in NCERT Solutions for Class 6 Science Chapter 9 The Living Organisms Characteristics and Habitats

• Organisms and the surroundings where they live
• Habitat and adaptation
• A journey through different habitats
• Some aquatic habitats
• Characteristics of organisms
• Living organisms and excretion

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