Life Cycles Review

What is a life cycle?

• process of changing from one form to another

• changes an animal goes through during its life

• larva spins this covering out of silk or grows hard shells

• how organisms get energy from other organisms

Complete the life cycle. 1. Seed 2. Seedling 3. ________ 4. Flower 5. Fruit

• larva

• young plant

• pollen

• pupa

What does it mean to germinate?

• to begin to grow or sprout

• to cough on people

• A flower that is not opened up or fully grown

• None of the above

What do seeds need to germinate (break open)?

• soil

• pollen

• water

• decomposers

The process in which some organisms change form during different stages of life is called_.

• germinate
• life span
• direct development
• metamorphosis

What does metamorphosis mean?

• to change or transform

• a fully grown organism that can reproduce

• to shed an outer skeleton or skin

• the stages in an organism's life from birth to death.

Which two animals go through metamorphosis during its life cycle?

• Frog and bird
• butterfly and horse
• fish and frog
• butterfly and frog

select the order of the frog life cycle

• egg, froglet, tadpole, adult

• froglet, tadpole, egg, adult

• tadpole, egg, adult, froglet

• egg, tadpole, froglet, adult

After a frog hatches from an egg it looks just like an adult frog.

• True
• False

select the order of the butterfly life cycle

• adult, larva, pupa, egg

• egg, larva, pupa, adult

• larva, egg, adult, pupa

• egg, adult, pupa, larva