Life Cycles of Plants & Animals Quiz

What is a life cycle?

• The particular way a living thing grows, reproduces, and dies

• The result of a fertilized plant ovule; contains a new plant

• A young animal

• The stage in which an insect eats, grows, and resembles a smaller version of an adult

What is complete metamorphosis?

• The particular way a living thing grows, reproduces, and dies

• Type of development consisting of four distinct stages: egg, larva, pupa, and adult

• A young plant

• The stage when the insect rarely moves because it is growing into an adult

What is incomplete metamorphosis?

• The stage in which an insect eats, grows, and resembles a smaller version of an adult

• Type of development consisting of three stages: egg, nymph, and adult

• A young animal

• The result of a fertilized plant ovule; contains a new plant

What is an adult?

• The stage in which an insect eats, grows, and resembles a smaller version of an adult

• The particular way a living thing grows, reproduces, and dies

• Fully grown living thing that is capable of reproduction

• A young plant

What is an offspring?

• The stage in which an insect eats, grows, and resembles a smaller version of an adult

• The young of a plant or animal

• The result of a fertilized plant ovule; contains a new plant

• A young animal

What is an embryo?

• The developing organism between fertilization and birth

• A young plant

• A young animal

• The stage when the insect rarely moves because it is growing into an adult

What is an adolescent?

• The stage in which an insect eats, grows, and resembles a smaller version of an adult

• A young animal

• The particular way a living thing grows, reproduces, and dies

• The stage when the insect rarely moves because it is growing into an adult

What is a seed?

• The stage in which an insect eats, grows, and resembles a smaller version of an adult

• The result of a fertilized plant ovule; contains a new plant

• A young plant

• The particular way a living thing grows, reproduces, and dies

What is a larva?

• The stage in which an insect eats, grows, and resembles a smaller version of an adult

• The particular way a living thing grows, reproduces, and dies

• A form that an animal takes after it hatches from an egg that is very different from the form it will take as an adult

• A young animal

What is a seedling?

• The stage in which an insect eats, grows, and resembles a smaller version of an adult

• A young plant

• The particular way a living thing grows, reproduces, and dies

• The stage when the insect rarely moves because it is growing into an adult