Chapter 10: Living Creatures: Exploring their Characteristics
What makes something alive? In this chapter we compare living and non-living things, find out what seeds need to sprout, watch plants grow and move, and follow the life cycles of plants and animals.
In this chapter you will
- tell living from non-living things
- find the conditions seeds need to germinate
- describe growth and movement in plants
- describe life cycles of plants and animals
Topics
- Living and Non-living NCERT 10.1
Living things need food, breathe, grow, respond, remove wastes and reproduce.
- Conditions for Germination NCERT 10.2
Seeds need water, air and warmth to germinate.
- Growth and Movement in Plants NCERT 10.3
Plants grow throughout their lives.
- Life Cycle of a Plant NCERT 10.4
Plant life cycle: seed → seedling → young plant → flowering plant → fruit with seeds → seed.
- Life Cycle of Animals NCERT 10.5
Frog: eggs → tadpole → froglet → frog. Mosquito: egg → larva → pupa → adult.
Key words
- Living things
- things that need food, breathe, grow, respond and reproduce
- Germination
- a seed starting to grow into a plant
- Life cycle
- the stages a living thing goes through, again and again
- Metamorphosis
- a big change in body form during the life cycle
- Larva, pupa
- young stages of insects like mosquitoes and butterflies
Summary
- Living things need food, breathe, grow, respond, remove wastes and reproduce.
- Seeds need water, air and warmth to germinate.
- Plants grow all their lives; shoots grow towards light and roots grow down.
- Plants and animals have life cycles; frogs, butterflies and mosquitoes go through metamorphosis.