The Living Organisms — Characteristics and Habitats PDF

6 The Living Organisms — Characteristics and Habitats P aheli and Boojho went on of some kind or the other (Fig. 6.1). Paheli vacation to many places of started thinking and reading about far interest. One such tri...

6 The Living Organisms — Characteristics and Habitats P aheli and Boojho went on of some kind or the other (Fig. 6.1). Paheli vacation to many places of started thinking and reading about far interest. One such trip took away places. She read that people have them to the river Ganga in Rishikesh. even found tiny living organisms in the They climbed the mountains of the openings of volcanoes! Himalayas, where it was very cold. They saw many kinds of trees on these mountains — oaks, pines and deodars, very different from the ones near their home on the plains! In yet another trip, they travelled to Rajasthan and moved on camels through the hot desert. They collected different kinds of cactus plants from this trip. Finally, they went on a trip to Puri and visited the sea beach, dotted with casuarina trees. While Fig. 6.1 Search for living organisms recollecting all the fun that they had on 6.1 ORGANISMS AND THE these trips, a thought struck them. All SURROUNDINGS WHERE THEY LIVE these places were so different from one Another thought that occurred to Paheli another, some were cold, some very hot and Boojho was about the kinds of living and dry, and some places so humid. And organisms that were present in different yet all of them had many organisms locations that they had visited. The (living creatures) of various kinds. deserts had camels, the mountains had They tried to think of a place on Earth goats and yak. Puri had some other where there may not be any living creatures — crabs on the beach and creatures. Boojho thought of places near such a variety of fish being caught by his home. Inside the house, he tried the the fishermen at the sea! And then, cupboards. He had thought that there there did seem to be some creatures like may not be any living organisms here, ants that were present in all these but he found one tiny spider in the different locations. The kinds of plants cupboard. Outside the home too, there found in each of these regions were so did not seem to be any place, he could different from the plants of the other think of, that did not have living creatures regions. What about the surroundings 116 T HE L IVING ORGANISMS — C HARACTERISTICS AND H ABITATS