Animal Life Cycles

What is a life cycle?

• The different parts that make up a plant or animal.

• The various stages an organism passes through as it grows, matures, and finally dies.

• Characteristics passed on to a living thing from its parents.

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The stages of growth and development are the same for all animals.

• True

• False

Some animals give birth to babies that look like small adults.

• True

• False

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A change that happens as a young animal grows and changes into an adult is called ________.

• Photosynthesis

• Osmosis

• Metamorphosis

Which vertebrates spend the first part of their lives breathing with gills in water and the adult part of their lives reathing with lungs on land?

• Reptile

• Fish

• Amphibian

• Mammal

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The images show the life cycle of a chicken and a beetle. Which statement is correct?

• The life cycle of a beetle starts from larvae.

• The life cycle of a chicken starts from a chick.

• The young in the case of a beetle looks different from the adult.

• The young in the case of a chcen look identical to the adult.

A frog's life cycle is egg to young to adult.

• True

• False

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What is different about the life cycle of a beetle compared to a chicken?

• The chicken goes through the stage of being an egg, while the beetle does not.

• The beetle goes through the stage of being an egg, while the chicken does not.

• The chicken goes through the stage of a being a larva, while the beetle does not.

• The beetle goes through the stage of a being a larva, while the chicken does not.

Which animal is the only animal that gives birth to live young?

• Reptile

• Fish

• Insect

• Mammal