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Curiosity: Class 6 Science companion
Textbook of Science for Grade 6
An interactive companion to the Grade 6 science textbook Curiosity: original explanations, animated figures, simulations and quick checks that follow its chapters.
Hindi medium: जिज्ञासा
An original companion to Curiosity, NCERT Class 6 Science (2026–27 edition). Official textbook ↗ ncert.nic.in
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Chapter 1: The Wonderful World of Science
The opening chapter of the Class 6 science book presents science as how we find things out. - ENHinglish
Chapter 2: Diversity in the Living World
Class 6 chapter on the variety of life (biodiversity) and how to group it. - ENHinglish
Chapter 3: Mindful Eating: A Path to a Healthy Body
A Class 6 chapter on food and health. - ENहिंHinglish
Chapter 4: Exploring Magnets
This Class 6 chapter introduces magnets. - ENHinglish
Chapter 5: Measurement of Length and Motion
This Class 6 chapter covers measuring length and describing motion. - ENHinglish
Chapter 6: Materials Around Us
Class 6 chapter on materials and their properties. - ENHinglish
Chapter 7: Temperature and its Measurement
Class 6 chapter on temperature and thermometers. - ENहिंHinglish
Chapter 8: A Journey through States of Water
Class 6 chapter on water's three states: ice, liquid water and invisible water vapour. - ENHinglish
Chapter 9: Methods of Separation in Everyday Life
Class 6 chapter on separating mixtures in daily life. - ENHinglish
Chapter 10: Living Creatures: Exploring their Characteristics
A Class 6 chapter on how living things differ from non-living things and how they change during their lives. - ENHinglish
Chapter 11: Nature’s Treasures
A Class 6 chapter on nature's treasures, the natural resources we depend on: air (about 78 % nitrogen, 21 % oxygen, 1 % other gases) and win - ENHinglish
Chapter 12: Beyond Earth
A Class 6 chapter on the sky beyond Earth.
Also in हिन्दी / Hinglish
- Chapter 1: Science ki Anokhi Duniya (Hinglish)
- Chapter 2: Living World mein Diversity (Hinglish)
- Chapter 3: Mindful Eating: Healthy Body ka Raasta (Hinglish)
- Chapter 4: चुंबकों की खोज (हिन्दी) · Magnets ki Khoj (Hinglish)
- Chapter 5: Lambai aur Motion ki Measurement (Hinglish)
- Chapter 6: Hamare Aas-paas ke Materials (Hinglish)
- Chapter 7: Temperature aur uska Measurement (Hinglish)
- Chapter 8: जल की अवस्थाओं की यात्रा (हिन्दी) · Paani ki States ka Safar (Hinglish)
- Chapter 9: Roz ki Zindagi mein Separation ke Tareeke (Hinglish)
- Chapter 10: Living Creatures: Unki Characteristics ki Khoj (Hinglish)
- Chapter 11: Nature ke Khazaane (Hinglish)
- Chapter 12: Earth se Aage (Hinglish)
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absolute zeroपरम शून्यThe lowest temperature possible: 0 K, which is −273.15 °C.Ch 7 · Temperature and its MeasurementadaptationअनुकूलनA body feature or habit that helps a living thing survive where it lives.Ch 2 · Diversity in the Living Worldair temperatureवायु तापHow hot or cold the air is. Weather reports give each day’s maximum and minimum.Ch 7 · Temperature and its MeasurementamphibianउभयचरAn animal, such as a frog, that spends part of its life in water and part on land.Ch 2 · Diversity in the Living Worldanalyseविश्लेषण करनाTo study results closely to find out what they tell us.Ch 1 · The Wonderful World of ScienceaquaticजलीयLiving in water: in a river, the sea, a lake or a pond.Ch 2 · Diversity in the Living Worldasteroidक्षुद्रग्रहA small, rocky, lumpy body that travels around the Sun, mostly between the paths of Mars and Jupiter.Ch 12 · Beyond Earthastronomical unit (au)खगोलीय इकाईA unit of distance equal to the average distance between the Earth and the Sun, about 150 million km.Ch 12 · Beyond Earthattractionआकर्षणA pull that draws two things together, as between unlike poles, or between a magnet and iron.Ch 4 · Exploring MagnetsB
balanced dietसंतुलित आहारMeals that supply every nutrient, plus roughage and water, in amounts that suit a person's needs.Ch 3 · Mindful Eating: A Path to a Healthy Bodybar magnetछड़ चुंबकA magnet shaped like a straight, flat bar, with one pole at each end.Ch 4 · Exploring Magnetsbiodiversityजैव विविधताThe variety of different kinds of plants, animals and other living things in a place.Ch 2 · Diversity in the Living WorldC
carbohydrateकार्बोहाइड्रेटAn energy-giving nutrient. Sugars and starch are carbohydrates.Ch 3 · Mindful Eating: A Path to a Healthy BodyCelsius scaleसेल्सियस पैमानाThe temperature scale used on most thermometers in India. Its unit is the degree Celsius (°C).Ch 7 · Temperature and its MeasurementcentimetreसेंटीमीटरOne hundredth of a metre, symbol cm. 1 cm = 10 mm.Ch 5 · Measurement of Length and MotionchurningमंथनSpinning or stirring a liquid fast so its lighter part gathers and separates, as butter does from curd.Ch 9 · Methods of Separation in Everyday Lifecircular motionवृत्तीय गतिMotion along a circle, around a centre.Ch 5 · Measurement of Length and Motionclassificationवर्गीकरणArranging things into groups by a property they share.Ch 6 · Materials Around Usclimberआरोही लताA plant with a weak stem that grows upward by holding on to a support.Ch 2 · Diversity in the Living Worldclinical thermometerडॉक्टरी थर्मामीटरA thermometer for measuring body temperature. Its range is small, about 35 °C to 42 °C.Ch 7 · Temperature and its MeasurementcometधूमकेतुA lump of ice, dust and rock that travels around the Sun. Near the Sun its ice turns to gas and forms a glowing tail.Ch 12 · Beyond EarthcondensationसंघननThe change of water vapour into liquid water when it is cooled.Ch 8 · A Journey through States of WaterconstellationतारामंडलA group of stars that seems to form a pattern, or the area of sky around that pattern. The sky is split into 88 of them.Ch 12 · Beyond Earthcooling effectशीतलन प्रभावThe cooling of a surface when water evaporates from it and takes heat away.Ch 8 · A Journey through States of Watercotyledonबीजपत्रA seed leaf: a part of the seed joined to the baby plant, often storing its food.Ch 2 · Diversity in the Living Worldcreeperविसर्पी लताA plant with a weak stem that spreads along the ground.Ch 2 · Diversity in the Living Worldculinary practicesपाक-विधियाँThe ways in which food is prepared and cooked, such as grinding, boiling or frying.Ch 3 · Mindful Eating: A Path to a Healthy Bodycuriosityजिज्ञासाThe wish to know more or to find something out.Ch 1 · The Wonderful World of ScienceD
decantationनिस्तारणGently pouring off a liquid and leaving the settled solid behind.Ch 9 · Methods of Separation in Everyday Lifedeficiency diseaseअभावजन्य रोगAn illness caused when a nutrient is missing from the diet for a long time, such as scurvy or rickets.Ch 3 · Mindful Eating: A Path to a Healthy BodydewओसDrops of water that form on cool leaves and grass when vapour in the air condenses at night.Ch 8 · A Journey through States of Waterdicotद्विबीजपत्रीA plant whose seeds have two cotyledons.Ch 2 · Diversity in the Living WorlddissolveघुलनाTo spread through a liquid as bits too tiny to see, as salt does in water. A solid that does not dissolve is insoluble.Ch 9 · Methods of Separation in Everyday LifedistanceदूरीHow far apart two places or objects are.Ch 5 · Measurement of Length and MotionE
embryoभ्रूणThe tiny young plant inside a seed, or the young animal inside an egg, that grows into a new living thing.Ch 10 · Living Creatures: Exploring their Characteristicsevaporationवाष्पनThe change of liquid water into water vapour. It happens at the surface, even at room temperature.Ch 8 · A Journey through States of Waterevaporationवाष्पनA liquid slowly turning into vapour and escaping into the air, leaving anything dissolved in it behind.Ch 9 · Methods of Separation in Everyday Lifeevidenceप्रमाणObservations and results that show whether an idea is right or wrong.Ch 1 · The Wonderful World of Scienceexcretionउत्सर्जनGetting rid of wastes from the body, as in sweating and passing urine, or plants pushing out extra water and minerals.Ch 10 · Living Creatures: Exploring their Characteristicsexoplanetबाह्यग्रहA planet that travels around a star other than our Sun.Ch 12 · Beyond Earthexperimentप्रयोगA test we set up on purpose to check whether an idea is right.Ch 1 · The Wonderful World of ScienceF
Fahrenheit scaleफ़ारेनहाइट पैमानाA temperature scale whose unit is the degree Fahrenheit (°F). 37.0 °C equals 98.6 °F.Ch 7 · Temperature and its Measurementfair testनिष्पक्ष परीक्षणA test in which only one thing is changed and everything else is kept the same.Ch 1 · The Wonderful World of SciencefatवसाAn energy-giving nutrient that the body keeps as stored fuel. Ghee, oils and nuts are rich in it.Ch 3 · Mindful Eating: A Path to a Healthy Bodyfibrous rootsझकड़ा जड़A tuft of many thin roots, none much thicker than the others.Ch 2 · Diversity in the Living Worldfiltrateनिस्यंदThe liquid that has passed through a filter.Ch 9 · Methods of Separation in Everyday Lifefiltrationनिस्यंदनPassing a mixture through a material with tiny pores, which lets the liquid through and holds back solid bits.Ch 9 · Methods of Separation in Everyday Lifefood milesHow far a food travels in all, from the farm or factory where it is produced to the person who eats it.Ch 3 · Mindful Eating: A Path to a Healthy BodyforestवनA large area thickly covered with trees and other plants, home to many animals.Ch 11 · Nature’s Treasuresfossil fuelजीवाश्म ईंधनCoal, petroleum or natural gas, formed over millions of years from buried remains of living things.Ch 11 · Nature’s TreasuresfreezingजमनाThe change of a liquid into a solid on cooling.Ch 8 · A Journey through States of WaterfreshwaterWater with very little salt, found in rain, rivers, lakes, wells, ice and snow.Ch 11 · Nature’s TreasuresfrogletA young frog with four legs and a shrinking tail, just starting to spend time on land.Ch 10 · Living Creatures: Exploring their CharacteristicsG
galaxyमंदाकिनीA giant family of millions to billions of stars, with gas and dust, held together in space. Ours is the Milky Way.Ch 12 · Beyond EarthgasगैसA state with no shape of its own that spreads out to fill all the space it gets, like water vapour.Ch 8 · A Journey through States of WatergerminationअंकुरणThe start of growth of a seed into a young plant, when first a root and then a shoot come out.Ch 10 · Living Creatures: Exploring their CharacteristicsH
habitatआवासThe natural home of a plant or animal, where it finds everything it needs to live.Ch 2 · Diversity in the Living Worldhandpickingहस्त चयनTaking out, with your fingers, the pieces of a mixture that look different in size, colour or shape.Ch 9 · Methods of Separation in Everyday LifehardकठोरDifficult to press or scratch, like a pebble or steel.Ch 6 · Materials Around UsherbशाकA small plant with a soft, green stem that bends easily.Ch 2 · Diversity in the Living Worldhuman-made resourceमानव निर्मित संसाधनA useful thing that people make from natural resources, such as a bridge or a shirt.Ch 11 · Nature’s Treasureshumidityआर्द्रताHow much water vapour the air is holding. On humid days, wet things dry slowly.Ch 8 · A Journey through States of Waterhumusह्यूमसThe dark, nutrient-rich part of soil made from rotted plant and animal remains.Ch 11 · Nature’s TreasureshuskभूसीThe dry, papery case around a grain such as rice or wheat.Ch 9 · Methods of Separation in Everyday Lifehypothesisपरिकल्पनाA careful, sensible guess about why something happens, which we can check with a test.Ch 1 · The Wonderful World of ScienceI
insolubleअघुलनशीलNot able to dissolve in a liquid, like sand in water.Ch 6 · Materials Around Usiodised saltआयोडीन युक्त नमकCommon salt with a tiny amount of iodine added to prevent goitre.Ch 3 · Mindful Eating: A Path to a Healthy Bodyiron filingsलोहे का बुरादाTiny bits of iron, like coarse black dust, used to see where a magnet pulls hardest.Ch 4 · Exploring MagnetsJ
junk foodFood high in fat, sugar or salt but low in protein, vitamins, minerals and fibre.Ch 3 · Mindful Eating: A Path to a Healthy BodyK
kelvinकेल्विनThe SI unit of temperature, written K without a degree sign. Kelvin = degrees Celsius + 273.15.Ch 7 · Temperature and its MeasurementkilometreकिलोमीटरA unit for long distances, symbol km. 1 km = 1000 m.Ch 5 · Measurement of Length and MotionL
laboratory thermometerप्रयोगशाला तापमापीA sealed glass tube with a bulb of liquid, used in labs; a common one reads from −10 °C to 110 °C.Ch 7 · Temperature and its Measurementlarvaलार्वाThe young, worm-like stage of an insect such as a mosquito or a silk moth. It hatches from the egg, feeds and grows.Ch 10 · Living Creatures: Exploring their Characteristicslife cycleजीवन चक्रThe stages a living thing passes through, from seed or egg to an adult that makes the next seeds or eggs.Ch 10 · Living Creatures: Exploring their Characteristicslight pollutionप्रकाश प्रदूषणToo much artificial light at night, which makes the sky glow and hides fainter stars.Ch 12 · Beyond Earthlinear motionरैखिक गतिMotion along a straight line.Ch 5 · Measurement of Length and Motionliquidद्रवA state that flows and takes the shape of its container but keeps the same volume, like water.Ch 8 · A Journey through States of Waterlodestoneप्राकृतिक चुंबकA rock found in nature that is already a magnet. People used lodestones long before magnets were made in factories.Ch 4 · Exploring MagnetslustrousचमकीलाHaving a natural shine, like a freshly cleaned metal.Ch 6 · Materials Around UsM
magnetचुंबकAn object that pulls things made of iron, nickel or cobalt towards itself. Every magnet has two poles.Ch 4 · Exploring Magnetsmagnetic compassचुंबकीय दिक्सूचकA small device with a magnetised needle that turns freely and rests pointing north–south, used to find directions.Ch 4 · Exploring Magnetsmagnetic materialचुंबकीय पदार्थA material that a magnet attracts, such as iron, nickel, cobalt or most kinds of steel.Ch 4 · Exploring Magnetsmagnetic separationचुंबकीय पृथक्करणUsing a magnet to pull iron and steel things out of a mixture.Ch 9 · Methods of Separation in Everyday Lifemagnetiseचुंबकित करनाTo turn a piece of iron or steel into a magnet, for example by stroking it many times in one direction with a magnet.Ch 4 · Exploring Magnetsmassद्रव्यमानThe amount of matter in something, measured in grams (g) and kilograms (kg).Ch 6 · Materials Around Usmaterialपदार्थThe stuff an object is made from, such as wood, glass, steel or cotton.Ch 6 · Materials Around Usmatterद्रव्यAnything that has mass and takes up space.Ch 6 · Materials Around UsmeasurementमापनFinding how big something is by comparing it with a known amount, called a unit.Ch 5 · Measurement of Length and MotionmeltingपिघलनाThe change of a solid into a liquid on heating.Ch 8 · A Journey through States of WatermetreमीटरThe SI unit of length, symbol m. 1 m = 100 cm.Ch 5 · Measurement of Length and Motionmilletमोटा अनाजA small, hardy grain such as jowar, bajra or ragi that grows with little water and is rich in nutrients.Ch 3 · Mindful Eating: A Path to a Healthy BodymillimetreमिलीमीटरOne tenth of a centimetre, symbol mm: the smallest step on an ordinary scale.Ch 5 · Measurement of Length and Motionmineralखनिज लवणA protective nutrient from the earth, such as iron, calcium or iodine, needed in small amounts.Ch 3 · Mindful Eating: A Path to a Healthy BodymineralखनिजA natural solid substance that rocks are made of; many are mined to get metals such as iron.Ch 11 · Nature’s Treasuresmixtureमिश्रणTwo or more different things mixed together, each keeping its own nature.Ch 9 · Methods of Separation in Everyday Lifemonocotएकबीजपत्रीA plant whose seeds have one cotyledon.Ch 2 · Diversity in the Living WorldmotionगतिA change of position with time, compared with a reference point.Ch 5 · Measurement of Length and MotionN
natural resourceप्राकृतिक संसाधनAnything useful that we get from nature, such as air, water, sunlight, soil or coal.Ch 11 · Nature’s Treasuresnon-lustrousHaving no shine, like a clay pot, a cork or a cotton hanky.Ch 6 · Materials Around Usnon-magnetic materialअचुंबकीय पदार्थA material that a magnet does not attract, such as wood, plastic, glass, copper or gold.Ch 4 · Exploring Magnetsnon-renewable resourceअनवीकरणीय संसाधनA natural resource that nature cannot replace within a reasonable time, like coal or minerals.Ch 11 · Nature’s Treasuresnormal body temperatureसामान्य शरीर तापThe average temperature of healthy people, taken as 37.0 °C (98.6 °F).Ch 7 · Temperature and its Measurementnorth pole (of a magnet)उत्तरी ध्रुवThe end of a freely hanging magnet that turns to face north; also called the north-seeking pole (N).Ch 4 · Exploring Magnetsnutrientपोषक तत्वA substance in food that the body uses as fuel, as building material, or to guard itself and keep running.Ch 3 · Mindful Eating: A Path to a Healthy BodyO
observationप्रेक्षणSomething we notice carefully with our senses, sometimes helped by tools such as a hand lens or a ruler.Ch 1 · The Wonderful World of Scienceopaqueअपारदर्शीLetting no light through, so you cannot see through it at all, like wood or metal.Ch 6 · Materials Around Usoscillatory motionदोलन गतिMotion to and fro, again and again, about a middle position.Ch 5 · Measurement of Length and MotionP
periodic motionआवर्ती गतिMotion that repeats itself after equal intervals of time.Ch 5 · Measurement of Length and Motionpetroleumपेट्रोलियमA thick, dark oil from deep underground, from which petrol, diesel, kerosene and LPG are made.Ch 11 · Nature’s Treasuresplanetग्रहA large, round body that travels around the Sun on its own path and does not make its own light.Ch 12 · Beyond Earthpoleध्रुवA place on a magnet where its pull is strongest. Every magnet has a north pole and a south pole.Ch 4 · Exploring MagnetsPole Starध्रुव ताराA star that stays almost still in the northern sky while the other stars circle around it, so it shows which way is north.Ch 12 · Beyond Earthpredictionपूर्वानुमानWhat we expect to happen in a test if our hypothesis is right.Ch 1 · The Wonderful World of SciencepropertyगुणA feature that describes how a material looks, feels or behaves, such as shine or hardness.Ch 6 · Materials Around Usproteinप्रोटीनA body-building nutrient needed for growth and repair, found in dals, milk, eggs and fish.Ch 3 · Mindful Eating: A Path to a Healthy Bodypupaप्यूपाThe stage between larva and adult in insects like the mosquito. It does not feed while its body changes into the adult.Ch 10 · Living Creatures: Exploring their CharacteristicsR
rainwater harvestingवर्षा जल संग्रहणCollecting and storing rain, or letting it soak into the ground, to use later.Ch 11 · Nature’s TreasuresrangeपरिसरThe span from the lowest to the highest temperature a thermometer can show.Ch 7 · Temperature and its Measurementreference pointसंदर्भ बिंदुA fixed object or place from which distances and positions are described.Ch 5 · Measurement of Length and Motionrenewable resourceनवीकरणीय संसाधनA natural resource that nature refills within a reasonable time, like water, sunlight or forests.Ch 11 · Nature’s TreasuresreproductionजननMaking young ones like oneself, as when a hen hatches chicks or a mango seed grows into a new tree.Ch 10 · Living Creatures: Exploring their Characteristicsrepulsionप्रतिकर्षणA push that moves two things apart, as between two like poles.Ch 4 · Exploring MagnetsresidueअवशेषThe solid left behind on a filter.Ch 9 · Methods of Separation in Everyday Liferespirationश्वसनThe process in which living things use air to release energy from their food. All living things respire.Ch 10 · Living Creatures: Exploring their Characteristicsresponseअनुक्रियाThe way a living thing reacts to a stimulus, such as blinking when dust flies at your eyes.Ch 10 · Living Creatures: Exploring their Characteristicsrestविरामावस्थाThe state of an object whose position does not change with time, compared with a reference point.Ch 5 · Measurement of Length and Motionrevolutionपरिक्रमणOne complete trip of a body around another, such as the Earth going once around the Sun in about a year.Ch 12 · Beyond Earthring magnetवलय चुंबकA flat, round magnet with a hole in the middle. Its two flat faces are its poles.Ch 4 · Exploring Magnetsrockचट्टानA hard, natural solid that makes up the Earth's outer layer, made of minerals.Ch 11 · Nature’s Treasuresrotationघूर्णनSpinning on an axis. One rotation of the Earth takes about 24 hours and gives us day and night.Ch 12 · Beyond Earthroughageरूक्षांशThe part of plant food that is not digested. It keeps waste soft and moving.Ch 3 · Mindful Eating: A Path to a Healthy BodyS
sacred groveपवित्र उपवनA patch of forest that a local community protects by tradition, so nobody cuts its trees or hunts in it.Ch 2 · Diversity in the Living Worldsatelliteउपग्रहA body that travels around a planet or another bigger body. A moon is a natural satellite.Ch 12 · Beyond Earthscienceविज्ञानFinding out how things work by observing, asking questions, testing ideas and checking the results.Ch 1 · The Wonderful World of Sciencescientific methodवैज्ञानिक विधिA step-by-step way of finding answers: observe, ask a question, guess, test and analyse the results.Ch 1 · The Wonderful World of Sciencescientistवैज्ञानिकA person whose work is finding out about the world using the scientific method.Ch 1 · The Wonderful World of SciencesedimentationअवसादनHeavy bits that do not dissolve sinking to the floor of a jar or pond when the liquid is left still. The settled layer is the sediment.Ch 9 · Methods of Separation in Everyday Lifeseed coatबीजावरणThe tough outer covering of a seed. It protects the embryo inside.Ch 10 · Living Creatures: Exploring their Characteristicsshrubझाड़ीA medium-sized plant with several hard, woody stems that branch near the ground.Ch 2 · Diversity in the Living WorldsievingचालनSeparating dry bits by size by shaking them on a mesh with holes.Ch 9 · Methods of Separation in Everyday LifesoftमुलायमEasy to press or scratch, like a sponge or candle wax.Ch 6 · Materials Around UssoilमृदाThe loose top layer of the ground: rock bits, humus, air, water and living things.Ch 11 · Nature’s Treasuressolar energyसौर ऊर्जाEnergy from the Sun, in the form of heat and light.Ch 11 · Nature’s TreasuresSolar Systemसौर मंडलThe Sun together with everything that travels around it: eight planets, their moons, dwarf planets, asteroids and comets.Ch 12 · Beyond EarthsolidठोसA state that keeps its own shape and does not flow, like ice.Ch 8 · A Journey through States of WatersolubleघुलनशीलAble to dissolve, that is, spread through a liquid until it can no longer be seen, like sugar in water.Ch 6 · Materials Around Ussouth pole (of a magnet)दक्षिणी ध्रुवThe end of a freely hanging magnet that turns to face south; also called the south-seeking pole (S).Ch 4 · Exploring MagnetsspawnA clump of frog eggs held together in clear jelly, usually floating in water.Ch 10 · Living Creatures: Exploring their Characteristicsstandard unitमानक मात्रकA unit with the same agreed size for everyone, everywhere. SI units are the international standard units.Ch 5 · Measurement of Length and MotionstarताराA huge ball of very hot, glowing gas that makes its own light and heat. The Sun is our nearest star.Ch 12 · Beyond EarthstarchमंडA carbohydrate that plants store in grains, roots and tubers. Iodine turns it blue-black.Ch 3 · Mindful Eating: A Path to a Healthy Bodystateअवस्थाOne of the forms a substance can take: solid, liquid or gas.Ch 8 · A Journey through States of Waterstimulusउद्दीपनA change around a living thing, or inside it, that makes it react, such as touch, heat, light or a smell.Ch 10 · Living Creatures: Exploring their Characteristicsstomataरंध्रTiny pores, mostly on the underside of leaves, that let air move in and out.Ch 10 · Living Creatures: Exploring their CharacteristicsT
tadpoleटैडपोलThe young one of a frog. It hatches from the egg, lives in water and swims with its tail.Ch 10 · Living Creatures: Exploring their Characteristicstaprootमूसला जड़One thick root growing straight down, with thinner roots sprouting from its sides.Ch 2 · Diversity in the Living WorldtemperatureतापA measure of how hot or cold something is. The hotter it is, the higher its temperature.Ch 7 · Temperature and its Measurementterrestrialस्थलीयLiving on land: on a mountain, or in a desert, forest or field.Ch 2 · Diversity in the Living WorldthermometerतापमापीAn instrument for measuring temperature.Ch 7 · Temperature and its MeasurementthreshingगहाईBeating or trampling dried stalks to shake the grains loose.Ch 9 · Methods of Separation in Everyday LifetranslucentपारभासीLetting some light through, so you see only blurry shapes, like butter paper.Ch 6 · Materials Around Ustransparentपारदर्शीLetting you see clearly through it, like clear glass or clean water.Ch 6 · Materials Around Ustreeवृक्षA tall plant with one thick, woody trunk that branches high above the ground.Ch 2 · Diversity in the Living WorldU
U-shaped magnetनाल चुंबकA magnet bent into the shape of the letter U, with its two poles at the tips.Ch 4 · Exploring Magnetsunitमात्रकA fixed amount used for comparing, such as the metre. A measurement is written as a number and a unit.Ch 5 · Measurement of Length and MotionUniverseब्रह्मांडEverything that exists: all of space and all the galaxies, stars, planets and other bodies in it.Ch 12 · Beyond EarthV
value of one divisionअल्पतमांकThe temperature change shown by one small space on a scale: difference between two numbered marks ÷ number of spaces.Ch 7 · Temperature and its Measurementvenationशिराविन्यासThe pattern of veins in a leaf: a net (reticulate) or lines side by side (parallel).Ch 2 · Diversity in the Living WorldvitaminविटामिनA protective nutrient needed in small amounts, such as vitamin A or vitamin C.Ch 3 · Mindful Eating: A Path to a Healthy BodyvolumeआयतनThe amount of space something takes up, measured in millilitres (mL) and litres (L).Ch 6 · Materials Around UsW
water cycleजल चक्रThe endless movement of water between the Earth’s surface and the air by evaporation, condensation, rain or snow, and flow.Ch 8 · A Journey through States of Waterwater vapourजलवाष्पWater in the gas state. It is invisible and mixes with the air.Ch 8 · A Journey through States of WaterwindपवनAir moving from one place to another, from a gentle sea breeze to a roaring cyclone.Ch 11 · Nature’s Treasureswinnowingनिष्पावनLetting a breeze or a fan blow the light part of a mixture, such as husk, away from the heavy grain.Ch 9 · Methods of Separation in Everyday Lifencert.ai is an independent learning companion aligned to the NCERT curriculum. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by NCERT.