BAL BHARATI PUBLIC SCHOOL, DWARKA

Class VI
CHAPTER 7 (LIVING AND NON LIVING THINGS)

1. Name the two main living things.

 The two main living things are plants and animals.
2. Name some things that are natural but a non-living component.
 Water, air, sunlight, soil, mountains etc., are some natural non living components.
3. Name some man- made things that are non-living components.
 Furniture made with wood, metals extracted from its minerals, cars, refrigerators, etc.,
4. Although it was once a part of a tree is wood a living thing or not? Explain.
 Wood, as long as it remains as a part of a tree it was living. The tree when it is cut to obtain
wood, it can no longer be living but a dead part that is non living.
5. What are the common features of both living and non- living?
 All living and non-living things are made up of matter. They occupy space and have mass.
 All living and non living things are made of structural units. In living it is called a cell and in non
living things they are made up of molecules.
6. What is the common feature in all living things?
 All living things are made of structural and functional units known as cells.
7. Why do you see animals moving from one place to another?
 Animals need to move for various purposes. They move in search of food, shelter and water or to
escape from its enemies or danger or to find its mate for species propagation (reproduction).
8. Do plants move too? Justify.
 Sunflower turns in the direction of sunlight.
 The roots move in search of water.
 The shoot moves towards light.
 The leaves of a mimosa plant or touch- me- not plant droops when it touched showing movement
in plants.
9. Non living things such as car, ball, etc., move too? Justify.
 Non living things also move but not on their own. They only move when an external force is
applied.
10. What do you understand by ‘response to stimuli?
 A stimulus is a situation to which living things responds spontaneously.
 For example, you withdraw your hand from hot iron when you touch it. Withdrawing your hand
is the response, where as hot iron is the stimulus.
11. What is excretion?
 A process in which a living thing throws the wastes out of its body.
12. Name four organs of the human body and the wastes that the organ throws out.
 Kidney that throws our urine,
 The sweat glands beneath the skin that throws out sweat,
 Lungs that throws out carbon dioxide,
 Large intestine that throws out undigested food.
13. Name some wastes thrown out by plants.
  Plants do not have excretory organs like animals. They also excrete by shedding bark, leaves,
ripened fruits, water vapour during transpiration through tiny pores in leaves known as stomata
etc.,
14. Why do plants not have any excretory organs like animals?
 Animals do not make their own food. Hence, they need to obtain the nutrients through metabolic
activities after consuming food with the help of various organ systems.
 Whereas plants make their own food and only need to store the excess food in different parts of
the plant.
15. What is a species?
 A species is a group of similar living organisms that have similar body parts, live in the same
habitat, eat the same kind of food and reproduce amongst themselves.
16. What is common to all living things but uncommon to non living things? Tabulate the
differences.
S.NO Living things Non living things

1. All living things are made up of All non living things are made up of
cells. molecules, sometimes atoms of one kind.
2. All living things respire. They do not respire.

3. All living things grow from the

nutrition they obtain from the food they
eat.
4. They move on their won in search of
food, water, shelter and sunlight.
5. Living things have a birth and a period
to survive and later die. This is called
life span.
6. They reproduce their own kind.
Non living things grow only if any material of
the same kind is added to it externally.
They only move when an external force is
applied.
There is no life span.
Do Not reproduce.

7. They respond to stimulus Do Not respond to stimulus

Home assignments:

1. How does the life of multi-cellular organism originate?

2. Write at least the differences between plants and animals with regard to nutrition, growth,
structure, excretion and lifespan. (Tabulate the differences).
3. Write differences between phototropism, thigmotropism and geotropism. (Tabulate the
differences).
4. Write an experiment to show phototropism in plants. (With the format of an experiment: such
as aim, things required, observation and result.)