Plant Reproduction and Life Cycles Vocabulary

A plant or animal action, reaction, or activity that occurs in response to a stimuli (gravity, light, or temperature).

• behavior

• learned trait

• inherited trait

• pollinate

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The process by which the female reproductive cell (egg) is united with the male reproductive cell (sperm). 

• germination

• fertilization

• pollination

• vacation

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NGSS.MS-LS3-2

The process by which plants begin to grow from a seed or a spore.

• fertilization

• pollen

• ovary

• germination

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A type of insect life cycle that only has 3 distinct stages.

• live birth

• egg birth

• complete metamorphosis

• incomplete metamorphosis

Which is not a stage of incomplete metamorphosis?

• egg

• larva

• nymph

• adult

Which is NOT a stage of complete metamorphosis?

• egg

• pupa

• nymph

• adult

A trait or characteristic that is passed from parent to offspring.

• inherited trait

• learned behavior

• life cycle

• texture

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NGSS.MS-LS3-2

An early stage in the life cycle of an organism that will undergo complete metamorphosis

• larva

• butterfly

• nymph

• pollinate

The stages of an organism’s growth and development.

• pollinate

• metamorphosis

• behavior

• life cycle

A pre-adult insect undergoing incomplete metamorphosis.

• egg

• pupa

• nymph

• adult