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Living Things Life Cycles

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Living Things Life Cycles

Follow the clues, study the diagrams and show how living things change as they grow. Write in complete sentences where asked.

The garden investigation

Layla visits a garden after rain. She spots a froglet with a tiny tail, a butterfly resting near leaves, and a seedling growing in a pot. Each is part of a life cycle: a pattern of change that living things follow as they grow and produce young.

1.In the passage, what does the term life cycle mean?
2.Put these butterfly stages in order, starting with the egg: adult butterfly, chrysalis, egg, caterpillar.
3.A caterpillar does not look like an adult butterfly. Explain one way the butterfly changes during its life cycle.
4.Which pair of animals goes through metamorphosis as it grows?
  • Frog and butterfly
  • Dog and cat
  • Kangaroo and koala
  • Eagle and lizard
5.Complete the frog life cycle: eggs → tadpole → → adult frog.
6.A flowering plant begins as a seed. Name two stages that can follow as it grows.
7.Match each life-cycle stage to its description.
  • Seed
  • Tadpole
  • Chrysalis
  • Young frog that lives in water and has a tail
  • Stage when a caterpillar changes into an adult butterfly
  • Can grow into a new plant
8.Every living thing has a life cycle, but life cycles do not all have the same stages.
TrueFalse
9.A gardener collects seeds from a mature plant and plants them in moist soil. What might happen next, and why is this part of a life cycle?
10.Choose a frog, butterfly or flowering plant. Draw four stages of its life cycle in order, and label each stage.

3 printable pages

  • Living Things Life Cycles, page 1 of 3: The garden investigation

    Page 1

  • Living Things Life Cycles, page 2 of 3: 3. A caterpillar does not look like an adult butterfly. Explain one way the butterfly

    Page 2

  • Living Things Life Cycles, page 3 of 3: 7. Match each life-cycle stage to its description.

    Page 3

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