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Life Cycles

Total questions: 32

Worksheet time: 16mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

People and animals exhale.

a)

carbon dioxide

b)

oxygen

2.

Plants need ______ to survive.

a)

oxygen

b)

carbon dioxide

3.

Plants use what things to produce their own food?

a)

sunlight, water, soil

b)

sunlight, carbon dioxide, water

c)

sunlight, water, oxygen

4.

What is the process called when plants make their own food?

a)

respiration

b)

photosynthesis

c)

osmosis

5.

Plants are important to the survival of people because they

a)

purify water

b)

produce oxygen

c)

spread seeds

6.

Plants release

a)

oxygen

b)

carbon dioxide

7.

If a large amount of trees are cut down in an area, what gas would decrease in that area?

a)

helium

b)

carbon dioxide

c)

oxygen

8.

Respiration is when

a)

plants use energy from the sun

b)

oxygen is inhaled and carbon dioxide is exhaled

c)

animals absorb carbon dioxide

9.

Animals expel carbon dioxide as part of

a)

photosynthesis

b)

migration

c)

respiration

10.

What do animals add to the atmosphere?

a)

hydrogen

b)

oxygen

c)

carbon dioxide

11.

Oxygen levels decrease when

a)

trees are cut down

b)

trees are planted

c)

animals move out of an area

12.

If an area has a higher amount of carbon dioxide than oxygen, it needs more

a)

animals and people

b)

plants

13.

Plants use oxygen from the air to make food.

a)

true

b)

false

14.

What would increase the amount of oxygen in the air?

a)

building new roads

b)

planting more trees

c)

building new houses

15.

Carbon dioxide and oxygen are transferred through

a)

soil

b)

water

c)

the atmosphere

16.

Plants absorb

a)

carbon dioxide

b)

oxygen

c)

hydrogen

17.

The movement of carbon on Earth by the process of respiration and photosynthesis is called

a)

the life cycle

b)

the Carbon Dioxide/Carbon Cycle

18.

What stage seems to be at rest?

a)

adult

b)

pupa

c)

larvae

19.

A cocoon is a type of pupa.

a)

true

b)

false

20.

Plants give out

a)

hydrogen

b)

carbon dioxide

c)

oxygen

21.

Animals give out

a)

hydrogen

b)

carbon dioxide

c)

oxygen

22.

Plants take in

a)

hydrogen

b)

carbon dioxide

c)

oxygen

23.

Animals take in ________.

a)

hydrogen

b)

carbon dioxide

c)

oxygen

24.

The stages of an organism's life from birth to death

a)

the carbon dioxide/oxygen cycle

b)

the life cycle

c)

the time cycle

25.

Which stage resembles the adult?

a)

pupa

b)

nymph

c)

larva

26.

The first stage in both life cycles is the egg.

a)

true

b)

false

27.

Which life cycle has four stages?

a)

complete

b)

incomplete

28.

An adult

a)

is fully grown and can reproduce

b)

resembles the pupa stage

c)

is growing new body parts

29.

The second stage of incomplete metamorphosis is

a)

larva

b)

pupa

c)

nymph

30.

Both stages have an adult and nymph stage.

a)

true

b)

false

31.

Complete metamorphosis has three stages

a)

true

b)

false

32.

Which stage resembles a worm?

a)

egg

b)

larva

c)

nymph