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Life Cycle Quiz

Total questions: 31

Worksheet time: 2hrs 37mins

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Class
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1.

A student came upon this small plant while playing outside and began thinking about the life cycle of a plant.

What stage of the life cycle came just before this stage?

a)

A seed is planted in the soil.

b)

The adult plant is ready to make seeds.

c)

The flower makes seeds.

d)

A fruit grows from the flower.

2.

You are investigating how plants undergo a series of changes throughout their life cycle.

What is the order of the changes in the life cycle of most plants?

a)

seed, fruit, adult plant, seedling

b)

seed, seedling, fruit, adult plant

c)

seed, seedling, adult plant, fruit

d)

seed, adult plant, fruit, seedling

3.

What stage of the life cycle of a tomato plant comes just after this one?

a)

A seed is planted in the soil.

b)

The adult plant is ready to grow flowers.

c)

The seeds will become fruit.

d)

A flower produces fruit.

4.

In what stage are the seeds formed?

a)

b)

c)

d)

e)

5.

What stage of a plant life cycle is the offspring?

a)

Adult

b)

Seedling

c)

Seed

d)

Sprout

6.

How are oak trees and sunflowers alike?

a)

They are the same size.

b)

They both use seeds for food.

c)

They die after they make seeds.

d)

They both make seeds to make new plants.

7.

You are investigating how plants undergo a series of changes throughout their life cycle. What is the order of the changes in the life cycle of most plants?

a)

seed, fruit, adult plant, seedling

b)

seed, seedling, fruit, adult plant

c)

seed, seedling, adult plant, fruit

d)

seed, adult plant, fruit, seedling

8.

A seed germinates when -

a)

it becomes a fruit

b)

it falls to the ground

c)

flower is pollinated

d)

it splits open and a small plant grows out of it

9.

Gaby plants a tomato seed in a wooden box with good soil. She gives it plenty of water.

What will happen next in the plant's life cycle?

a)

It will flower.

b)

It will germinate.

c)

It will grow leaves.

d)

It will grow many roots.

10.

A student sees his plant in his yard.

What evidence does he use to decide that it is an adult plant?

a)

The plant has leaves.

b)

The plant has a stem.

c)

The plant has a flower.

d)

The plant has roots.

11.

Which stages is the tomato plant fully grown in the plant's life cycle?

a)

Stage 1

seed before and after germination

b)

Stage 2

sprout

c)

Stage 3

seedling

d)

Stage 4

adult plant with flowers

e)

Stage 5

adult plant with fruit

12.

What labels could be used to correctly describe the life cycle of a salamander?

a)

adult, tadpole with legs, eggs

b)

tadpole with legs, adult, eggs

c)

adult, eggs, tadpole

d)

tadpole, eggs, adult

13.

Mrs. Gardner is illustrating the life cycle of different organisms. She draws the picture of a frog life cycle below. She wants to tell his friend about the pictures and how the frog changes during its life cycle.

What should she tell her friend about the third picture?

a)

The tadpole is a baby adult and can do all the things the adult frog does.

b)

The tadpole continues to grow and develops legs as it begins to change.

c)

The tadpole grows and lays eggs during this stage.

d)

The tadpole prepares to lose its legs so that it can live in water.

14.

Choose the correct order for the life cycle of a beetle.

a)

adult, larva, caterpillar, mealworm, pupa, butterfly, egg

b)

egg, larva, pupa, adult

c)

egg, pupa, adult, butterfly

d)

caterpillar, mealworm, pupa, egg

15.

Which part of the frog life cycle is most like the larva stage in the life cycle of a ladybug?

a)

egg

b)

tadpole

c)

froglet

d)

adult

16.

Animals go through a sequence of orderly changes from adult to offspring.

Which of the pairs have a similar relationship as a butterfly and a larva?

a)

dog, tadpole

b)

frog, tadpole

c)

egg, elephant

d)

grasshopper, pupa

17.

How are chickens and oak trees alike?

a)

They both change as they grow.

b)

They both grow into adults.

c)

They both start from an egg or a seed.

d)

All of the above are true.

18.

Which list below gives the correct order for the stages of the frog metamorphosis?

a)

1, 2, 3, 4, 5

b)

3, 2, 4, 1, 5

c)

5, 3, 4, 2, 1

d)

1, 5, 3, 4, 2

19.

In what stage do the offspring first appear?

a)

b)

c)

d)

20.

How is the chicken life cycle alike with the oak tree?

a)

They both change as they grow.

b)

They both grow into adults.

c)

They both start from an egg or a seed.

d)

All of the above are true.

21.

Which life cycle is the most different from the others?

a)

b)

c)

d)

22.

What stage of the butterfly cycle is most like the frog stage?

a)

egg

b)

adult

c)

larva

d)

tadpole

23.

In what stage of the ladybug life cycle are new eggs laid?

a)

larva

b)

pupa

c)

adult

d)

egg

24.

In which stage does the darkling beetle eat?

a)

pupa and egg

b)

larva and egg

c)

adult and larva

d)

adult and pupa

25.

What is a way that the ladybug life cycle differs from the grasshopper life cycle?

a)

The ladybug lays eggs but the grasshopper does not.

b)

The ladybug offspring look like the adult but the grasshopper offspring do not.

c)

The ladybug lays eggs but the grasshopper does not.

d)

The ladybug offspring do not look like the adult but the grasshopper offspring do.

26.

What is the last stage of the clownfish?

a)

adult fish

b)

juvenile fish

c)

egg

d)

young fish

27.

Which of the following organisms in the food chain makes its own food from energy it receives from the sun?

a)

watermelon plant

b)

mockingbird

c)

bobcat

d)

worm

28.

The stages of a living thing as it grows, changes becomes an adult, and then dies is -

a)

a food chain

b)

a life cycle

c)

the flow of energy

d)

its structures and functions

29.

What would happen to the ecosystem if all the frogs perished?

a)

They would be no change.

b)

The flies would get sick and die.

c)

The fly population would increase.

d)

The snakes would start to eat grass.

30.

Which organism is a predator?

a)

cactus plant

b)

cardinal bird

c)

fly

d)

the sun

31.

What do the arrows on a food chain represent?

a)

point to the important organisms

b)

show the flow of energy

c)

point to the predators

d)

show which organisms get eaten.