The following 20 Multiple Choice Questions (MCQ) are based on
Chapter 10: Living Creatures: Exploring their Characteristics from the NCERT Class 6
Science textbook Curiosity. Each question has four options - select the
best answer and click to check.
Instructions: Read each question carefully. Choose the most
appropriate option from (a), (b), (c), or (d). Click
Show Answer to reveal the correct answer with explanation.
Multiple Choice Questions
1Which is a characteristic of living beings?
(a) They grow and carry out life processes
(b) They never change
(c) They have no need for energy
(d) They are all able to walk
(a) is correct
Living organisms show a combination of nutrition, respiration, growth, response and reproduction.
2Movement alone cannot identify life because:
(a) No living being moves
(b) Only plants move
(c) Movement requires no force
(d) Non-living objects such as cars can move
(d) is correct
A full set of life characteristics must be considered.
3Plants are living even though they do not walk because they:
(a) Need no water
(b) Have no life cycle
(c) Grow, respire, respond and reproduce
(d) Are always motionless internally
(c) is correct
Plant movements and other life processes may be slow or less obvious.
4Living organisms need food mainly for:
(a) Magnetism
(b) Energy, growth and repair
(c) Only colour
(d) Making shadows
(b) is correct
Nutrition supplies matter and energy for life processes.
5Respiration is important because it:
(a) Releases energy from food
(b) Produces all food
(c) Stops growth
(d) Occurs only in animals
(a) is correct
Plants and animals both respire.
6Excretion is the removal of:
(a) Useful food
(b) All water
(c) Oxygen only
(d) Metabolic wastes
(d) is correct
Waste products can be harmful if they accumulate.
7A plant bending toward light shows:
(a) No growth
(b) Reproduction
(c) Response to a stimulus
(d) Non-living motion
(c) is correct
Living things sense and respond to changes in their environment.
8Reproduction enables organisms to:
(a) Avoid growth
(b) Produce young ones of their kind
(c) Live forever individually
(d) Stop variation
(b) is correct
It continues the species across generations.
9A seed remains inactive until it gets suitable conditions. This state is:
(a) Dormancy
(b) Death
(c) Adulthood
(d) Respiration stopping forever
(a) is correct
A viable dormant seed can resume growth when conditions become favourable.
10Most seeds need which conditions for germination?
(a) Only bright light
(b) Only soil
(c) Freezing temperature
(d) Water, air and suitable warmth
(d) is correct
Water activates the seed, oxygen supports respiration and warmth enables reactions.
11The first part of a germinating seed to emerge is usually the:
(a) Fruit
(b) Leafy branch
(c) Root
(d) Flower
(c) is correct
The young root anchors the seedling and begins water absorption.
