Life Cycles #1

What is an example of a "starting" stage in a life cycle?

• adult plant

• seedling

• adult animal

• egg

What happens after animals or plants reach adulthood?

• they reproduce to restart the lifecycle

• they get smaller

• they die

• they keep growing

Young animals are always

• laying more eggs

• eating plants

• growing and changing

• flowering and seed spreading

An organism is

• An individual plant or animal

• Only a plant

• The stages of an organism's life

• When an animal begins it's time on earth

What is a life cycle?

• An individual plant or animal

• only a plant

• the stages of an organism's life

• when an animal begins it's time on earth

Based on the predictable pattern (birth --> develop/growth --> reproduce --> death) When an organism reaches adulthood, what might happen next?

• it will continue to grow and change

• it might get smaller and weaker

• it might reproduce to create another organism

all plants and animals only go through one life cycle before they die.

• true

• false

When in a life cycle is a plant most likely going to die?

• After it germinates

• after it grows a seedling

• after it reaches adulthood

• after it spreads its seeds

all animals are hatched from eggs.

• true

• false

humans do not have a life cycle like plants or animals

• true

• false