PW Class 6 Science Chapter 10 Solutions: Living Creatures: Exploring Their Characteristics

Living things may look very different from one another, but they share certain characteristics that separate them from non-living things. Living Creatures: Exploring their Characteristics helps you understand growth, respiration, reproduction, response to stimuli, seed germination, and life cycles through familiar examples of plants and animals.

The PW Class 6 Science Chapter 10 Solutions help you work through selected textbook exercises and apply these ideas to different situations. The solutions include questions about seeds, plants, frogs, mosquitoes, life cycles, and experiments related to germination and growth.

Living Creatures: Exploring Their Characteristics Solutions

The selected questions below cover different types of exercises from the chapter without reproducing the complete question set.

Question 1: How would you now categorise a seed, as living or non-living?

Answer: A seed is a living thing. It can grow into a plant when it gets the right conditions for germination.

Question 2: List the similarities and differences in life cycles of plants and animals.

Answer:

Similarities:

• The life cycles of both plants and animals begin with an initial stage, followed by different stages of growth and development and finally death.

• Reproduction helps maintain the continuity of their kind.

Differences:

The source presents these differences in a comparison table.

Question 3: You have learnt that different conditions are required for seed germination. How can we use this knowledge for proper storage of grains and pulses?

Answer: To prevent unwanted germination and store grains and pulses properly:

• Keep them dry so that moisture does not initiate germination.

• Store them in a cool place to slow biological processes.

• Use airtight containers to limit their exposure to air.

Question 4: What is the advantage of having a tail in the tadpole stage?

Answer: The tail provides two important advantages:

Swimming ability: It helps the tadpole swim efficiently in water to find food and escape predators.

Balance and stability: It helps the tadpole maintain balance while moving through water.

Question 5: What are the similarities and distinguishing features in the life cycles of a mosquito and a frog?

Answer: Both mosquitoes and frogs begin their lives as eggs and pass through distinct stages of transformation.

Their life cycles, however, have different stages:

• Mosquito: Egg → Larva → Pupa → Adult

• Frog: Egg → Tadpole → Froglet → Adult

The source also notes that adult mosquitoes are terrestrial, while frogs can live both on land and in water.

Question 6: A plant is provided with all the conditions suitable for its growth. What would you expect to see in its shoot and root after one week? Give reasons.

Answer: The roots will grow downwards into the soil in search of water, while the shoot will bend upwards towards light. The plant shoot grows towards sunlight because its leaves require sunlight to make food.

The figure provided with the exercise shows the pot placed along the ground, allowing you to predict how the root and shoot will change their direction of growth.

Question 7: Design an experiment to check if temperature has an effect on seed germination.

Answer: Take identical pots with the same type of soil and seeds. Place them in environments with different temperatures while keeping other conditions as similar as possible. Water each pot equally and record the number of seeds that germinate in each environment every day.

Compare the germination and growth at different temperatures. Your observations can then be used to determine which temperature is most suitable for seed germination. The source presents this experiment with separate aim, materials, procedure, observation, and conclusion stages.

Class 6 Science Chapter 10 Solutions PDF

The Class 6 Science Chapter 10 Solutions PDF contains solutions to textbook exercises from Living Creatures: Exploring their Characteristics. It covers living and non-living things, growth, respiration, seed germination, plant and animal life cycles, responses to stimuli, frogs, mosquitoes, and experimental questions.

You can work through the selected questions above for focused revision and use the complete PDF for the remaining textbook exercises and activities.

Continue Your Class 6 Science Preparation with PW Resources

Once you have completed the Chapter 10 textbook exercises, these PW resources can help you revise concepts and attempt additional questions:

• Class 6 Science Syllabus – Check the complete syllabus and plan your remaining chapter-wise revision.

• Class 6 Science Notes – Revisit important concepts from Chapter 10 and other Science chapters.

• Class 6 Science Solutions – Access chapter-wise solutions and work through textbook exercises across Class 6 Science.

• Class 6 Science Important Questions – Practise additional questions on living organisms, germination, life cycles, growth, and other chapter concepts.

• Class 6 Science Sample Papers – Apply what you have studied while practising questions from different chapters.

The PW Class 6 Science Chapter 10 Solutions help you connect the characteristics of living organisms with examples you can observe around you. By working through textbook questions on growth, germination, life cycles, and responses to surroundings, you can build a clearer understanding before moving to further practice.

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