Animal Life Cycle Vocabulary

Hardened protected case made by a moth or butterfly.

• Vertebrate

• Nymph

• Chrysalis

• Adolescence

A dramatic change in shape or form: a caterpillar changing to a butterfly

• Life Cycle

• Molt

• Invertebrate

• Metamorphosis

Animals without a backbone

• Vertebrate

• Invertebrate

• Chrysalis

• Nymph

4 stages that include egg, larva, pupa, and adult

• Complete metamorphosis

• Incomplete metamorphosis

• Molt

• Adolescence

Young insect that looks much like an adult

• Vertebrate

• Molt

• Nymph

• Invertebrate

Growing period between childhood and adulthood; teenagers

• Adolescence

• Nymph

• Metamorphosis

• Molt

3 stages that include: egg, nymph, and adult

• Vertebrate

• Invertebrate

• Complete Metamorphosis

• Incomplete Metamorphosis

Animals with a backbone

• Metamorphosis

• Invertebrate

• Vertebrate

• Incomplete Metamorphosis

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

The stages or steps of life

• Adolescence

• Invertebrate

• Life Cycle

• Molt

To shed part of the body or the outer layer

• Molt

• Metamorphosis

• Nymph

• Chrysalis