Life Cycle Quick Check

Order the pictures 1 - 4, starting with the first stage of a plant's life cycle.

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The life cycle of the tomato plant is illustrated here. What stage in the diagram is the adult plant?

• A

• B

• C

• D

How is the life cycle of a beetle similar to the life cycle of a frog? Both life cycles -

• include a tadpole stage.

• produce adults with wings.

• take place in the water.

• begin with eggs.

The images here show the life cycles of a cockroach and a darkling beetle.

In the cockroach life cycle, the nymph is the stage that emerges from the egg. In this way, it is similar to which stage of the darkling beetle life cycle?

• A

• B

• C

• D

One way in which a plant life cycle is like an animal life cycle is that both plants and animals-

• Use seeds to reproduce

• Live for hundreds of years

• Lay eggs that hatch

• Grow larger over time

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Choose the correct sequence of the frog's life cycle

• froglet, tadpole, frog, and egg
• egg, frog, tadpole, and froglet
• egg, tadpole, froglet, and frog
• tadpole, froglet, frog, and egg

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A pupa is the life stage of some insects undergoing transformation between immature and mature stages.

This table shows how long different types of insects spend in each stage of the life cycle. According to the table, which insect spends the longest time in the transforming stage of its life cycle?

• Insect A

• Insect B

• Insect C

• Insect D