Biodiversity
One word for the whole variety.
The variety of living things in a place: how many kinds, and how different they are. A forest has plenty. A cricket field has little.
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Diversity in the Living World · Class 6 Science · Curiosity
English 5 topics 145 leveled MCQs 75 flashcards 5 games Free
Shared by a Veda teacher · Generated with Veda AI · Oct 2026
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Observe without disturbing
The rule before you set out.
No plucking, no pulling, no chasing. Fallen leaves may be collected. The park is somebody's home and you are visiting it.
Listen as well as look
Half the variety is a sound.
Every kind of bird has its own call. Stand still and the number of living things you can detect goes up at once.
Why group at all
Thirty rows teach nobody anything.
Thirty plants must be remembered one at a time. Four groups can be held at once, and anything new drops into one of them.
Herb, shrub, tree
Decided by the stem, not the flower.
Herb: small, soft green stem. Shrub: several hard stems branching low down. Tree: tall, one thick woody trunk, branches high up.
One of each
Tomato, rose, mango.
A tomato plant is a herb. A rose is a shrub. A mango is a tree. Learn these three and you have a ruler to measure other plants against.
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What you'll study, topic by topic
1
The Living World Around Us
One park holds more kinds of living thing than anyone can count in a morning. That variety is called biodiversity. Seeing it properly means slowing down, listening as well as looking, and writing what you find.
- Biodiversity is the whole variety of living things found in a place.
- A single park holds grasses, bushes and trees, and birds, insects and animals among them.
- Variety shows between kinds of living thing and also within one kind.
~30 min · full explanation, examples & memory tricks in the app
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Grouping Plants
Sort plants by what you can see: how tall and what kind of stem, the vein pattern in a leaf, the shape of the roots, and the number of parts inside a seed. Three of those four turn out to agree with each other.
- Trees are tall with hard, thick, woody stems, and branch high above the ground.
- Shrubs are shorter, with several hard stems that branch close to the ground.
- Herbs are small, with soft green stems. A tomato plant is one.
~35 min · full explanation, examples & memory tricks in the app
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Grouping Animals
Animals can be sorted by how they move and the body parts they move with, and by shape, size, structure and colour. The same habit of recording carefully is what let Janaki Ammal document the plants of India and help sav…
- Animals can be grouped by how they move: walking, running, flying, crawling, hopping, swimming.
- The body part used for moving is part of the grouping: legs, wings, fins and others.
- A pigeon walks and flies, so it uses legs and wings, and belongs in two movement groups.
~30 min · full explanation, examples & memory tricks in the app
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Fitting the Place: Adaptations
A cactus, a deodar, two camels, two rhododendrons and a fish are each built for the place they live in. A body feature that makes a living thing fit for where it lives is called an adaptation.
- An adaptation is a feature of the body that fits a living thing to the place where it lives.
- Biodiversity varies from region to region because the conditions of regions vary.
- A desert has very little water. A hot desert is very hot by day and very cold at night.
~35 min · full explanation, examples & memory tricks in the app
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Habitat, and What Happens When It Goes
A habitat is the place where a plant or animal lives, and it supplies food, water, air and shelter. Damage to habitats costs biodiversity, which is why India runs projects for the tiger, the cheetah and the Great Indian…
- A habitat is the place a plant or animal lives in.
- A habitat provides food, water, air, shelter and the other needs for survival.
- Many kinds of plants and animals may share one habitat, and habitat shapes a region's biodiversity.
~35 min · full explanation, examples & memory tricks in the app
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145 questions laddered from warm-up to topper-level, each with an explanation. A taste:
Biodiversity is best described as ____.
Beginner
A the variety of living things found in a place
B the number of trees growing in a single park
C the list of animals kept in a city zoo
D the study of how plants make their own food
Show answer & explanation
the variety of living things found in a place
It counts how many kinds there are and how different they are from each other.
Nandini stands still in the park for two minutes and hears four different bird calls. What has she shown?
Beginner
A That the park has exactly four birds living in it
B That listening reveals variety that looking alone misses
C That the birds were disturbed by the class walking past
D That bird calls are the only way to identify a bird
Show answer & explanation
That listening reveals variety that looking alone misses
Each kind of bird has its own call, so the ear finds what the eye does not.
Which of these follows the rule of a nature walk?
Beginner
A Picking one flower from each bush to compare at home
B Shaking a branch gently so the birds fly up to be counted
C Collecting fallen leaves from the ground for a scrapbook
D Carrying a butterfly back to the classroom in a jar
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Collecting fallen leaves from the ground for a scrapbook
Observe without disturbing. Only what has already fallen may be taken.
In which order should the three features of a plant be looked at?
Beginner
A Flowers, then leaves, then stem
B Leaves, then flowers, then stem
C Flowers, then stem, then leaves
D Stem, then leaves, then flowers
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Stem, then leaves, then flowers
Stem, leaves, flowers. An order stops you from glancing and moving on.
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