Life Cycles

Life Cycles

Let's review what we have learned about plant and animal life cycles!

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What does a life cycle show?

• Shows plant and animal needs

• Shows plant and animal foods

• Shows animal or plant life from birth to adult

• Shows plant and animal characteristics

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True or False? All organisms have a life cycle.

• True

• False

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What is Germination?

• When a plant begins to decompose.

• When a plant lets go of its seeds.

• When a seed changes from being dormant to beginning to develop.

• When a plant begins to flower.

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How is a seedling different from a mature adult plant?

• A seedling does not have flowers or fruit.

• A seedling does not have roots.

• A seedling does not have a stem.

• A seedling does not need sunlight to grow.

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Humans and other animals can carry seeds from one location and drop them off in another. Without them knowing it, they are helping with plant reproduction. What process of plant reproduction are they helping with?

• pollination

• seed dispersal

• metamorphosis

• germination

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Prajakta's class is studying plants by taking seeds from different fruits and planting them in soil. They will observe and record what happens. What will be the best evidence for the class that germination has occurred?

• pollen from the flower being taken from the stamen to the pistil

• a stem begins to come through the soil

• the seeds of the fruit being taken away by birds and dropped in a new location

• bees or other insects flying into the flower to drink some nectar.

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The process of changing form or shape

• Metamorphosis

• Pupa

• Life Cycle

• Adult

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What are the stages of COMPLETE metamorphosis? Click ALL that apply.

• egg

• pupa

• larva

• adult

• nymph

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What are the stages of INCOMPLETE metamorphosis? Click ALL that apply.

• egg

• pupa

• larva

• adult

• nymph

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This picture shows what stage of the butterfly?

• pupa
• egg
• larva
• adult

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What is a characteristic of a mammal?

• Give birth to living young

• Live in Florida

• Lay eggs

• Have scales not fur

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Miles observes a mosquito in the PUPA STAGE. What change does this insect go through?

• seedling

• complete metamorphosis

• pollination

• incomplete metamorphosis

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What is a nymph?

• the stage in which the young animal looks like the adult

• the stage where the young animal does not look like the adult

• all the stages a living thing goes through as it grows and reproduces

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All life cycles BEGIN with...

• Adulthood

• Death

• Birth

• None of the above