Chapter 9: The Living Organisms and Their Surroundings

BoardCBSE
TextbookNCERT
ClassClass 6
SubjectScience
ChapterChapter 9: The Living Organisms and Their Surroundings
Chapter NameChapter 9 The Living Organisms and Their Surroundi
CategoryNCERT Exemplar

 

Chapter 9: The Living Organisms and Their Surroundings

The ninth chapter of Class 6 Science, The Living Organisms and Their Surroundings, explains how living beings interact with their environment and adapt to survive. It helps students understand that every organism—whether plant or animal—has specific features that allow it to live comfortably in its natural habitat.

The chapter begins by introducing the concept of habitat. A habitat is the natural home of an organism, and it is broadly classified into terrestrial (land-based) and aquatic (water-based) habitats. Examples include deserts, mountains, grasslands, oceans, and freshwater ponds. Students also learn about biotic components (living things like plants, animals, and microorganisms) and abiotic components (non-living things like air, water, soil, and temperature) that together form an ecosystem. Another important part of the chapter is adaptation. It explains how camels can survive in deserts with long legs and water storage capacity, while fish have gills to breathe in water. Similarly, plants also show adaptations, such as cactus with spines to reduce water loss or lotus with broad leaves to float on water.

With NCERT Solutions for Class 6 Science, students can easily understand textbook exercises that ask them to identify habitats, explain adaptations, and describe how surroundings affect living organisms. The NCERT Exemplar for Class 6 Science Solutions provides advanced questions that encourage critical thinking, such as why desert animals are mostly nocturnal or how polar bears survive extreme cold.

Important points of the chapter include:

  • Habitat and its types: terrestrial and aquatic.

  • Biotic and abiotic components of the environment.

  • Adaptations in plants and animals.

  • Interdependence of living and non-living components.

By practicing NCERT and Exemplar problems, students develop observation and reasoning skills that help them connect classroom science with the natural world. This builds a foundation for ecology and environmental studies in higher classes.

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