Grade 6 Science — Living and non-living

1.The touch-me-not folds its leaves when you brush against them. What does that show?

• a) Plants respond to stimuli, as animals do
• b) The leaves have died at that moment
• c) The plant is trying to move somewhere else
• d) The plant is excreting

2.Avadhi finds a shell lying still on the sand. What does her mother tell her about it?

• a) It stopped being living once it stopped moving
• b) Shells are empty by the time they reach the shore
• c) It may be part of the body of a living snail
• d) It is a stone that looks like a shell

3.Tap the part of this germinating seed that grows downwards.

4.A car moves along a road. Why does the chapter still put it in the non-living group?

• a) It was made in a factory rather than born
• b) It runs on fuel instead of on food
• c) It does not grow, and it cannot produce another car
• d) It moves too fast to be living

5.A seed germinates in the soil. Which way do the root and the shoot generally grow?

• a) Both of them sideways
• b) Both of them downwards
• c) The root downwards and the shoot upwards
• d) The root upwards and the shoot downwards

6.A tadpole has a tail and lives in water. What is true of the adult frog it becomes?

• a) It keeps the tail and stays in water
• b) It lives on land and cannot enter water
• c) It lives both in water and on land
• d) It goes back to being a tadpole each year

7.Anything that prompts a living being to respond has a one-word name. What is it?

8.A mosquito's life cycle joins up, so start it from the egg and put the four stages in order from there.

• Adult
• Egg
• Larva
• Pupa