Vocabulary
This is a feature of a living thing, like eye color.
Trait
A ___ is a young frog.
tadpole
A ladybug starts its life as an _____.
egg
All animals ____ at the end of their life cycles.
die
An example of an inherited trait is ___
eye color, hair color
When an animal breaks out of an egg, it ____
hatches.
___ is passing on a trait from parents to young.
Heredity
The _____ ladybug has red wings. Females can lay eggs.
adult
Reptiles, fish, birds - they all _____
lay eggs.
An example of a leared trait is ___
riding a bicycle, reading, playing baseball
This is an organism's young.
Offspring
a young insect, just hatched
larvae
An insect is called a ____ when it hatches.
larva
Which animal group goes through metamorphosis?
birds - mammals - insects - fish
insects
Because of ____ traits, you look like your parents.
inherited
Stages of the ____ are when animals grow, change, reproduce, and die.
life cycle
What is it called when an organism changes shape?
Metamorphosis
The larva of the ladybug changes into a ____.
pupa
Fish lay eggs in ____
water.
The ____ is responsible for a tree losing its branches.
environment
A new skill that you are taught is a ___
learned trait.
This is the stage when an insect changes into an adult.
Pupa
The lifecycle of the ladybug is __, __, __, __, and __.
egg,larva,pupa,adult,death
Most mammals are born ___
live.
heredity.