ANIMAL & PLANT LIFE CYCLES

What does a life cycle show?

• The different types of food an organism consumes
• The number of offspring produced by an organism
• The geographical range of an organism
• The various stages of development or changes that an organism goes through from birth to death.

How do most plant life cycles start?

• From a seed
• From a volcano
• From a cloud
• From a rock

What are two ways an animal might be born?

• Forming from a puddle of water
• Sprouting from seeds
• Emerging from a cocoon
• Live birth or hatching from eggs

True or false: metamorphosis means to go through dramatic change.

• True

• False

Which of these animals goes through metamorphosis during its life cycle?

• penguin

• chicken

• gorilla

• frog

During what stage of the butterfly life cycle is it able to fly?

• egg

• larva

• pupa

• adult

How is a chicken born?

• From an egg
• From a cloud
• From a rock
• From a seed

Do frogs start their life cycles on land or in water?

• in water
• underground
• in the air
• on land

Place these stages of a frog’s life cycle in order (frog, tadpole, egg, tadpole with legs).

• egg, frog, tadpole, tadpole with legs
• tadpole with legs, tadpole, egg, frog
• egg, tadpole, tadpole with legs, frog
• tadpole, egg, tadpole with legs, frog

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Describe the metamorphosis that a butterfly goes through during its life cycle.

• Egg, larva (caterpillar), pupa (chrysalis), adult butterfly
• Egg, nymph, pupa (chrysalis), adult butterfly
• Egg, pupa (chrysalis), caterpillar, adult butterfly
• Egg, larva (caterpillar), cocoon, adult butterfly