Living Creatures: Exploring their Characteristics

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Living Creatures: Exploring their Characteristics is the tenth chapter of Class 6 Curiosity. Through Avadhi and Aayush's morning walk and a snail's shell, the chapter opens the question — what sets a living being apart from a non-living thing? Students learn the eight characteristics shared by all living beings: movement, nutrition, growth, respiration (breathing), excretion, response to stimuli, reproduction and eventually death. Activity 10.2 with four bean-seed pots shows that water and air are essential for germination while light is not. Activity 10.3 with three beakers shows that shoots grow upward toward sunlight and roots grow downward, no matter how the seedling is placed. Jagadish Chandra Bose's crescograph is profiled. Life cycles of a bean plant, a mosquito (egg–larva–pupa–adult) and a frog (spawn–tadpole–froglet–adult) are compared. CTET Paper 2 Science tests this chapter through characteristic-recall, the germination 4-pot experiment, root-shoot direction, mosquito/frog stages and Bose. The four tests below — Practice 15 Q, Quiz 15 Q, Hard 15 Q, Mastery 30 Q — cover these ideas at exam depth.