Class 6 Science Chapter 10 – Living Creatures – Exploring their Characteristics MCQ With Answers

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Published on: 12 December 2025

Class 6 Science Chapter 10 MCQs – Living Creatures – Exploring their Characteristics

Class 6 Science Chapter 10 MCQs for “Living Creatures – Exploring their Characteristics” (based on NCERT textbook Curiosity ).

MCQ with Answers for Practice – Chapter 10 – Living Creatures – Exploring their Characteristics

This includes All types of MCQs normally asked in school exams, tests, and NCERT exercises.

1. Which of the following is a living being?

a) Pencil
b) Car
c) Pigeon
d) Book
Answer: c) Pigeon

2. Which characteristic is shown by all living beings?

a) Ability to shine
b) Ability to grow
c) Ability to break
d) Ability to roll
Answer: b) Ability to grow

3. Which plant shows movement when touched?

a) Neem
b) Mango
c) Touch-me-not (Mimosa)
d) Lotus
Answer: c) Touch-me-not (Mimosa)

4. The process of removing waste products from the body is called:

a) Respiration
b) Nutrition
c) Circulation
d) Excretion
Answer: d) Excretion

5. The outer covering of a seed is called:

a) Seed coat
b) Seed cover
c) Outer shell
d) Embryo
Answer: a) Seed coat

6. Seeds require which of the following to germinate?

a) Light only
b) Water and air
c) Soil only
d) Manure
Answer: b) Water and air

7. In Pot B of Activity 10.2, germination does not occur because:

a) It receives too much sunlight
b) It receives excess water
c) It gets no soil
d) It receives no light
Answer: b) It receives excess water

8. Which part of plants grows upward?

a) Root
b) Leaf
c) Shoot
d) Seed coat
Answer: c) Shoot

9. Roots grow downward mainly due to:

a) Light
b) Temperature
c) Gravity
d) Water
Answer: c) Gravity

10. Shoots grow towards:

a) Darkness
b) Water
c) Gravity
d) Sunlight
Answer: d) Sunlight

11. A seed that germinates in dark conditions is found in:

a) Coleus
b) Petunia
c) Calendula
d) None of these
Answer: c) Calendula

12. The process by which living beings produce young ones is:

a) Growth
b) Respiration
c) Excretion
d) Reproduction
Answer: d) Reproduction

13. A stimulus is:

a) Waste product
b) A thing or event that causes a response
c) Food
d) A type of plant
Answer: b) A thing or event that causes a response

14. Which living being responds to touch by folding leaves?

a) Mango
b) Neem
c) Mimosa
d) Banyan
Answer: c) Mimosa

15. Plants respire through:

a) Flowers
b) Roots
c) Stomata
d) Fruits
Answer: c) Stomata

16. Frog eggs are found in:

a) Soil
b) Air
c) Water
d) Tree holes
Answer: c) Water

17. Frog eggs are covered with:

a) Hard shell
b) Spines
c) Jelly-like substance
d) Feathers
Answer: c) Jelly-like substance

18. The jelly-like mass of frog eggs is called:

a) Larva
b) Pupa
c) Spawn
d) Tadpole
Answer: c) Spawn

19. Tadpoles breathe through:

a) Lungs
b) Gills
c) Skin
d) Spiracles
Answer: b) Gills

20. In the life cycle of a frog, the stage after tadpole is:

a) Froglet
b) Spawn
c) Egg
d) Adult frog
Answer: a) Froglet

21. Mosquito larvae and pupae come to the surface for:

a) Food
b) Air
c) Sunlight
d) Shade
Answer: b) Air

22. Which chemical is used to prevent mosquito breeding?

a) Vinegar
b) Salt
c) Kerosene
d) Soap
Answer: c) Kerosene

23. The correct sequence of mosquito life cycle is:

a) Egg → Pupa → Larva → Adult
b) Egg → Larva → Pupa → Adult
c) Larva → Egg → Pupa → Adult
d) Egg → Larva → Adult → Pupa
Answer: b) Egg → Larva → Pupa → Adult

24. Larva of mosquito looks like a:

a) Jelly ball
b) Worm
c) Butterfly
d) Fish
Answer: b) Worm

25. Roots obtain air from:

a) Seed coat
b) Soil spaces
c) Leaves
d) Flowers
Answer: b) Soil spaces

26. After germination, the plant needs __________ to grow.

a) Darkness
b) Sunlight
c) Snow
d) Pollution
Answer: b) Sunlight

27. The seedling gets moisture in Activity 10.3 from:

a) Air
b) Dry cloth
c) Wet blotting paper
d) Seeds
Answer: c) Wet blotting paper

28. In inverted seedlings, the shoot bends:

a) Downwards
b) Sideways
c) Upwards
d) Nowhere
Answer: c) Upwards

29. Which organism shows major body changes during its life cycle?

a) Cow
b) Human
c) Mango
d) Frog
Answer: d) Frog

30. Which of the following is a characteristic of non-living things?

a) Growing
b) Reproducing
c) Responding to stimuli
d) None of the above
Answer: d) None of the above

31. A seed is considered living because it:

a) Can walk
b) Can reproduce on its own
c) Shows characteristics when conditions are right
d) Has colour
Answer: c) Shows characteristics when conditions are right

32. The upward movement of shoots is an example of:

a) Geotropism
b) Phototropism
c) Hydrotropism
d) Chemotropism
Answer: b) Phototropism

33. The downward movement of roots is an example of:

a) Phototropism
b) Negligible tropism
c) Geotropism
d) None
Answer: c) Geotropism

34. Plants excrete water droplets through:

a) Leaves
b) Roots
c) Flowers
d) Stems
Answer: a) Leaves

35. A froglet lives:

a) Only in water
b) Only on land
c) Partly in water and partly on land
d) Underground
Answer: c) Partly in water and partly on land

36. Which stage of frog has the shortest duration?

a) Spawn
b) Embryo
c) Tadpole with legs
d) Froglet
Answer: b) Embryo

37. Pupa of mosquito transforms into:

a) Egg
b) Larva
c) Adult
d) Tadpole
Answer: c) Adult