LIFE CYCLES
This stage is usually the very beginning of all life cycles.
What is an egg?
Birds do this when they move to warmer places in winter.
What is migrate?
This bright star gives Earth heat and light.
What is the Sun?
This season comes after winter.
What is spring?
Water turns into vapor during this step.
What is evaporation?
A young frog is called this.
What is a tadpole?
When it is winter frogs do this to stay safe.
What is burrow?
Earth spinning on its axis causes this daily change.
What is day and night?
The cycle that explains how water moves around Earth.
What is the water cycle?
Clouds are made in this step.
What is condensation?
This is the process a butterfly goes through when it changes from one form to another.
What is metamorphosis?
Frogs stay near ponds and puddles because their skin needs to stay _____ to survive.
What is moist/wet?
Earth moving around the Sun causes this yearly change.
What are the seasons?
When water vapor cools and turns into liquid, the step is called ____.
What is condensation?
When water falls from the sky, it is called ____.
What is precipitation?
The process in which a plant begins to grow into a plant.
What is germination?
Caterpillars eat and eat (and eat!) before making a chrysalis. This behavior helps them do what later?
What is store energy for metamorphosis?
his repeating pattern happens because Earth tilts as it moves around the Sun, causing changes in temperature and daylight.
What are the seasons?
Leaves change color and fall off trees in this season. This tree is called?
What is fall/autumn? What is a deciduous tree?
When there is too much moisture in the air it feels ____.
What is humid?
Name the four main stages of a butterfly’s life cycle in order.
What are egg, caterpillar, chrysalis, butterfly?
Baby chicks use a tiny hard point on their beak to break out of the egg. What is this special tool called?
What is the egg tooth?
The Sun rises in the east and sets in the west every day. This pattern happens because Earth does this.
What is rotates/spins on its axis?
These are the three main types of clouds that help us describe and predict the weather.
What are cirrus, cumulus, and stratus clouds?
Explain how the Sun helps the water cycle.
It heats water and causes evaporation.