Eight characteristics
The whole list.
Move, feed, grow, breathe, excrete, answer stimuli, reproduce, and in the end die.
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Living Creatures: Exploring their Characteristics · 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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One test is never enough
Why the list is needed.
A car moves and is not alive. A tree stays put and is. Movement alone settles nothing.
Opening, winding, trapping
Plants move without travelling.
A flower opens, a climber winds round a support, and Drosera closes its hairs on an insect.
Germinated
The word.
A seed that has turned into a sprout is said to have germinated.
Four identical pots
The design.
Same pots, same soil, same seeds. Only the conditions differ, so the conditions get the blame.
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1
Eight Things the Living Do
A shell that never stirs can still be part of something alive. No single test settles it, so the living are told apart by a list of eight things they all do, plants included.
- Everything around us can be sorted into two kinds, the living and the non-living.
- Living beings move, feed, grow, breathe, excrete, answer stimuli, reproduce and die.
- Where one of those is missing, what you are looking at is not a living being.
~32 min · full explanation, examples & memory tricks in the app
2
Four Pots, and What a Seed Needs
Four pots of bean seeds, each kept differently, sort out what germination actually needs. Water and air turn out to be essential, and sunlight, surprisingly, does not.
- A seed that has turned into a sprout is said to have germinated.
- Four identical pots, each kept differently, let one condition be judged at a time.
- Germination of bean seeds needs the right amount of water together with air.
~32 min · full explanation, examples & memory tricks in the app
3
Which Way a Plant Grows
Turn a seedling upside down and it does not stay that way. Shoots head upward and lean towards light; roots head downward whatever you do, and three beakers show it.
- An upright seedling grows its root downwards and its shoot upwards.
- An inverted seedling bends: the root turns down again and the shoot turns up again.
- With light from one side only, the shoot grows towards it and the root still goes down.
~32 min · full explanation, examples & memory tricks in the app
4
A Bean Plant, Seed to Seed
Plant one bean and watch for three months. It germinates, puts out leaves, flowers, sets a pod of seeds and then dies, and those seeds start the whole thing again.
- Plant a bean seed, give it suitable conditions, and watch it for three months.
- The stages run seed, germination, leaves, flowers, fruit, and then the death of the plant.
- Once parts of the flower have dried, the remaining parts develop into the fruit.
~30 min · full explanation, examples & memory tricks in the app
5
A Mosquito and a Frog
Four stages each, and in both the young look nothing like the adult. One cycle runs entirely in stagnant water; the other starts in a pond and ends on land as well as in it.
- Mosquitoes pass through four stages: egg, larva, pupa and adult.
- The female mosquito drops her eggs onto water, or right beside it, so round it goes again.
- Larvae and pupae live in water but need air, so they come up to the surface for it.
~34 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:
Which list gives characteristics shared by all living beings?
Beginner
A movement, growth, respiration and reproduction
B weight, volume and hardness
C lustre, solubility and being drawn to a magnet
D colour, shape and size
Show answer & explanation
movement, growth, respiration and reproduction
Eight of them altogether, and all are needed.
Why is movement a poor test for deciding what is living?
Intermediate
A living things never move themselves about anywhere at all
B a car moves and a plant does not travel at all
C movement is hard to see
D only animals move
Show answer & explanation
a car moves and a plant does not travel at all
The test fails on both sides at once.
Which of these is an example of movement in a plant?
Intermediate
A a pot being carried indoors by a gardener
B a leaf falling in the wind
C a climber winding round a support
D a branch breaking off in a storm
Show answer & explanation
a climber winding round a support
Nothing travelled anywhere.
Drosera traps an insect when:
Beginner
A its roots pull it under
B its stem bends over
C its flowers close over the top of it
D sticky hairs on its leaves move inward
Show answer & explanation
sticky hairs on its leaves move inward
An insectivorous plant at work.
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