Science Vocabulary chapter 3 and 4.2

A fully grown, mature organism

• adult

• egg

• larva

• nymph

The first stage in the life cycle of most animals

• adult

• egg

• larva

• nymph

A plant or animal in the earliest stages of development

• embryo

• adult

• egg

• larva

What does it mean to germinate?

• A fully grown, mature organism

• The first stage in the life cycle of most animals

• A plant or animal in the earliest stages of development

• To begin growing a new plant

To receive traits from a parent

• inherit

• germinate

• trait

• metamorphosis

A worm-like form and the second stage of complete metamorphosis

• life span

• larva

• nymph

• life cycle

A series of stages that occur during the lifetime of a living thing

• instinct

• life span

• life cycle

• metamorphosis

The length of time it takes for an individual organism to complete its life cycle

• life cycle

• life span

• metamorphosis

• instinct

The process in which an animal changes form in different stages of its life cycle

• metamorphosis

• life span

• life cycle

• learned behavior

The second stage of incomplete metamorphosis

• nymph

• trait

• germinate

• egg