Gestation/Reproduction
Animals like mammals where embryos develop inside the mothers’ wombs
What is oviparous
The stage of an animal’s life cycle when it reproduces
Adult
Structure containing food that young animals need in order to grow
What is an egg
young insect that has just hatched
what is a larva
The stages through which animals grow, change, reproduce, and die.
what is life cycle
Animals whose embryos develop in external eggs
What are viviparous animals
The stage in which an insect is changing into an adult.
what is a pupa
young stage of an insect -- this is when most of the feeding is done
larva or nymph
process by which an organism’s body changes form.
What is metamorphosis
Plants and Animals that live for a very short time such as desert plants and mayflies
What are ephemeral oraganisms
Some reptiles who have their embryos develop inside eggs that remain inside their mother body until they hatch.
What are ovoviviparous animals
A form of migration in which fish e.g. salmon which live in the sea but swim upriver to breed
Anadromous
A form of migration in which fish which live in the river but swim to sea to breed
What is Catadromous migration
Travelling seasonally from one region to another
What is migration
Process by which a single individual generates new life
what is asexual reproduction