How Living Things Grow and Change

Changes that living things go through are called ______.

• Egg

• Metamorphosis

• Adult

• Sounds

The first stage of many life cycles is ________

• Egg

• Pupa

• Adult

• Larva

The picture shows an example of a ____ ______

• Life

• Life Cycle

• Larva

• Pupa

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How is a plant life cycle different from an animal life cycle?

• Plants Grow

• Plants Talk

• Plants Produce Seeds

• Plants Move Around

How are adult plants and adult animals the same?

• They can both make their own food

• They both reproduce

• They both have larva as a life cycle stage

• They both begin as eggs

Juan draws this picture to show a bean plant’s life cycle. He has numbered the pictures but they are not in the correct order.

What is the correct order in the life cycle of a bean plant?

• sprout, seed, adult, young plant

• seed, sprout, young plant, adult

• adult, young plant, sprout seed

• young plant, sprout, seed, adult

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Carmen and her friends visit a zoo. They observe a snake hatching from an egg. What animal has a life cycle most similar to this snake’s life cycle?

• a chicken

• a whale

• a dog

• a horse

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Which sentence about life cycles is true?

• All living things grow, change, and have adults that can reproduce.

• All young living things look like their parents

• All living things get their food from the Sun in order to grow

• All life cycles are the same.

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Tommy thinks his plant has grown about an inch in the past week. What is the only way he can be sure of this?

• observe the plant this week

• look carefully at the plant’s leaves

• touch the stem and leaves of the plant

• compare this week and last week’s measurements

Mr. Smith asked his class to draw an animal that goes through big changes during its life cycle. Which of these animals goes through the biggest changes?

• a chicken

• a turtle

• a frog

• a dog

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