GSEB Solutions for Class 6 Science and Technology – Living and Non-living (English Medium)
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Exercise 10:
Solution 1(a):
The lime when added to water gives a suspension of calcium hydroxide and gives a milky colour.
Solution 1(b):
The water in the bag evaporates due to sunlight. The sunlight heats the water and turns it into water vapour.
Exercise 11:
Solution 1(a):
The carbon dioxide gas produced by blowing air turns the clear liquid into a white milky colour.
Solution 1(b):
Plants respire through the small pores on their leaves called stomata. They exchange gases with the help of stomata.
Solution 1(c):
The picture shows the development of human beings. The child becomes youth and then becomes an adult. The adult then grows up and becomes older.
Exercise 12:
Solution 1(a):
Growth is shown by all living organisms such as animals, birds and plants.
Solution 1(b):
No, the balloon is not a living organism. The balloon becomes big due to the gas filled inside it by blowing.
Solution 1(c):
When we experience pain during walking, the brain sends messages to see what is hurting us below the feet. Then, we come to know that a spine or a thorn-like substance is hurting us.
Solution 1(d):
During winter, the temperature is very low and our body cannot resist the outside temperature; so, to avoid cold, we wear woolen clothes as they are very thick and are a bad conductor of heat.
Solution 1(e):
Yes, the animals do feel pain when bitten by a spine. They react to it by various means like thrusting the foot into the ground, by making horrible sounds in case of some animals.
Solution 1(f):
No, the wall does not feel any emotions if we do anything to it because it is a non-living thing.
Exercise 13:
Solution 1(a):
Evening primrose, Water lilies, Gladiolus, Moon flowers, Jasmine, Four o clock plant are the plants that bloom at night.
Exercise 14:
Solution 1(a):
Mangoes should be planted in full sun and well drained soil. We can also grow one near our home or under the shade of a larger tree.
Solution 1(b):
No, bicycle cannot reproduce as it is a non-living thing.
Solution 1(c):
The characters of living organisms are nutrition, growth, movement, response to stimuli, respiration, excretion, reproduction and death.
Solution 1(d):
The cloud moving in the sky is a non-living thing. Due to wind, the clouds move from one place to another.
Exercise 15:
Solution 1:
- The similarities between fish and ship is that both need water to travel but the dissimilarity is that fish is living whereas ship is nonliving.
- Elephant and Earthmovers dig Earth which is a similarity but the difference is elephant is living whereas Earthmovers are nonliving.
- The Similarities between train and humans is that both can run. But the dissimilarity is human is living but trains are non living.
- Birds and aeroplane fly in air but the difference is that bird is living and aeroplane is non living.