NCERT Solutions for Class 6th Science Chapter 2 Diversity in the Living World
Updated on 2026-09-08
About this chapter
We are surrounded by a huge variety of plants and animals . This variety found in a region is called its biodiversity , and every member of it has a role to play. Plants and animals can be grouped on the basis of similarities and differences. Grouping makes them easier to study — just as sorting books makes a school bag easier to use. By height and stem, plants are herbs, shrubs and trees (with climbers and creepers having weak stems). Tomato is a herb, rose a shrub, mango a tree. Leaves show reticulate venation (net-like, as in hibiscus) or parallel venation (as in banana and grass). Roots are of two kinds — taproot (mustard) and fibrous root (grass). These features go together. Dicots (two cotyledons, e.g. chana) have reticulate venation and taproots; monocots (one cotyledon, e.g. maize)
- The nature walk with Dr Raghu and Maniram chacha
- Diversity in Plants and Animals Around Us
- How much variety does one class know?
- How to Group Plants and Animals?
- Making your own basis for grouping
- How to group plants?
- Venation in leaves
- Other features for grouping plants
- Types of roots
- Linking venation and roots
Exercises
- The nature walk with Dr Raghu and Maniram chacha — In-text Questions Page 10
- Activity 2.1: Let us explore and record — Diversity in Plants and Animals Around Us Page 10–12
- Activity 2.2: Let us appreciate — How much variety does one class know? Page 13
- In-text Questions — How to Group Plants and Animals? Page 14
- Activity 2.3: Let us group — Making your own basis for grouping Page 14–15
- Activity 2.4: Let us group — How to group plants? Page 15–16
- Activity 2.5: Let us compare — Venation in leaves Page 17
- In-text Questions — Other features for grouping plants Page 17 & 18
- Activity 2.6: Let us find out — Types of roots Page 18
- In-text Questions — Linking venation and roots Page 19
- Activity 2.7: Let us relate and analyse — Table 2.4, venation and roots together Page 19
- In-text Questions — and 2.2.2 Page 20
- Activity 2.8: Let us compare — Dicot and monocot seeds Page 20
- Activity 2.9: Let us find out — How to group animals? Page 21–22
- In-text Questions — Plants and Animals in Different Surroundings Page 23
- Activity 2.10: Let us compare and analyse — Table 2.6, life in different regions Page 24
- In-text Questions — Adaptations of desert and mountain life Page 24–26
- In-text Questions — Habitats, and why they must be protected Page 27–29
- End-of-chapter questions — Let us enhance our learning Page 31–33
- Projects and further exploration — Learning further Page 33–34