NCERT Solutions for Class 4th The World Around Us Chapter 9 Can you identify these creatures? — Activity 3
Book page 142 Updated on2026-09-19
Q1.
Can you identify these creatures? (sea turtle, crab, dolphin, corals, seaweed, starfish)
Answer
The six sea creatures printed on page 142, in the same order, each with an empty box below it.
Here are the six names written in the right boxes, reading left to right.
Box
Name
How you can tell
Top left
Sea turtle
A hard patterned shell with four flippers and a small head
Top middle
Crab
A round body with two big claws in front and many side legs
Top right
Starfish
Orange and shaped like a star with five arms
Bottom left
Dolphin
Smooth grey body with a fin on the back and a curved tail
Bottom middle
Corals
Pink and cream branches that look like little trees on the sea floor
Bottom right
Seaweed
Green and leafy, growing in bunches like grass in the water
Why they all live here: all six are found in and around the sea. That is why Chandni saw turtles and collected sea shells on her boat ride at Puri, and not in the desert.
Did you know? Corals and seaweed are not animals that swim. Corals stay fixed to the sea floor and seaweed grows there like a plant, but they give food and shelter to many small sea creatures.