NCERT Curiosity · Class 6 · Science
Living Creatures: Exploring their Characteristics
A snail's shell doesn't move on its own — but the snail inside it is very much alive. Real life is more than just movement.
Life Processes Seed Germination Growth Toward Light Life Cycles
Key idea
Plants move too — but movement alone doesn't make something alive.
Flowers open, climbers wind around objects, and Drosera moves its sticky hairs to trap insects — but living beings share life processes that non-living things never show, no matter how they move.
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The Life Processes

Growth

Increasing in size over time.

Nutrition

Taking in food for growth and energy.

Respiration

Breathing in oxygen, releasing carbon dioxide.

Excretion

Removing waste from the body.

Response to stimuli

Reacting to touch, light, or other triggers.

Reproduction

Producing new individuals of the same kind.

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What a Seed Needs to Germinate

Water

Softens the seed coat, letting the embryo grow.

Air

Needed from spaces between soil particles — the same spaces let roots grow easily.

Light · not yet

Most seeds germinate without light, though it's essential once the seedling appears.

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When light comes from one direction, the shoot bends toward it — while the root still grows straight down.
Jagadish Chandra Bose invented the crescograph, an instrument that measured how plants respond to light, heat, electricity, and gravity.
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Life Cycle of a Plant
Seed
→
Young plant
→
Flowers & fruit
→
New seeds
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Life Cycle of a Mosquito
Egg
→
Larva
→
Pupa
→
Adult
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Life Cycle of a Frog
Spawn
→
Tadpole
→
Froglet
→
Adult frog
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Key Terms

Germination

A seed developing into a seedling.

Respiration

Breathing in oxygen, releasing carbon dioxide.

Excretion

Removal of waste from the body.

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Stimulus

Anything that triggers a response.

Life cycle

The stages from birth to producing the next generation.

Larva / Pupa

Early wormlike stage / resting transformation stage.

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Spawn

A jelly-like cluster of frog eggs.

Tadpole / Froglet

Young stages of a frog, before adulthood.

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