Animal Classification and Life Cycles

To arrange in a specific order or to group animals by categories based on similarities

• Characteristics

• Sort

• Internal

• Classify

A transformation that most insects undergo that includes larva and pupa stages

• Change

• Complete Metamorphosis

• Invertebrate

• Incomplete Metamorphosis

A hard outer structure, such as the shell of an insect or crustacean, that provides protection and/or support for an organism

• Endoskeleton

• Classify

• Exoskeleton

• Mammal

A transformation in some insects in which a nymph hatches from an egg and then develops into an adult

• Reptile

• Complete Metamorphosis

• Characteristic

• Incomplete Metamorphosis

An animal without a backbone

• Vertebrate

• Invertebrate

• Warm-Blooded

• Classification

An early (eating and grow) stage in the life cycle of an orgaisim that will undergo complete metamorphosis, often appear worm like in shape

• Larva

• Egg

• Nymph

• Adult

A juvenile insect that looks like its adult stage which undergoes incomplete metamorphosis.

• Egg

• Nymph

• Larva

• Life Cycle

are the cocoons larvae make around themselves. Larvae do not eat during this stage and develop adult like features

• Nymph

• Endoskeleton

• Pupa

• Egg

An animal with a backbone

• Invertebrate

• Mammal

• Adult

• Vertebrate