How Do Animals Grow and Reproduce?

What is the second phase of incomplete metamorphosis?

• fertilized egg

• adult

• pupa

• nymph

What animals have scaly skin that hatch looking like small adults and need no care from parents?

• adult

• pupa

• reptile

• nymph

What is the last stage of an amphibian's life cycle at the end of metamorphosis?

• pupa

• egg

• adult

• nymph

What is the resting stage of complete metamorphosis?

• pupa

• fertilized egg

• adult

• nymph

Most ______ develop inside their mothers' bodies.

• birds

• mammals

• reptiles

• amphibians

Land animals with leathery eggs are called _____?

• reptiles

• larva

• nymphs

• amphibians

________ develop in eggs laid in water. Whey they hatch, they look very different from adults.

• amphibians

• metamorphosis

• nymph

• larva

Audree sees an insect that looks like a small dragonfly without wings. Her teacher says that it is a young dragonfly. In what stage off incomplete metamorphosis is the insect?

• adult

• egg

• nymph

• pupa

Brayden is studying for a test on animals life cycles. Which animal should he look at as going through metamorphosis during its life cycle?

• a lady bug

• a sea turtle

• a chicken

• a nurse shark

The picture shows a monarch butterfly laying an egg on a leaf. From what you know about the complete metamorphosis of a butterfly, why would the butterfly lay the eggs here?

• A leaf is a safe place for the egg.

• The egg hatches into a nymph, which spends its life on the leaf.

• The egg hatches into a larva, which eats leaves, so it can eat right away.

• When the egg hatches, the young butterfly will have a place to fly away from.

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