Plant Life Cycles
All plants start their life cycle the same way. Plants begin as ____ .
seeds
All animals start their life cycle the same way. The first stage of an animal's life cycle is _____.
Birth
Insects and amphibians both go through a major change called...
metamorphosis
True or False: Offspring do not inherit any traits from their parents.
cones
Some trees use ___ to reproduce instead of flowers.
cones
True or False: All animals give live birth.
False. Birds are an example of an animal that does not give live birth.
False. Complete metamorphosis is a major change! Think of a caterpillar turning into a butterfly!
Dale is growing corn. He has corn with two different colors of seeds. The offspring of two yellow-seeded plants resulted in yellow corn. The offspring of a yellow-seeded plant and blue-seeded plant resulted in a corn that was both blue and yellow. What would the offspring of two blue seeded plants look like?
The offspring would be all blue.
pollinators.
A tree with no acorns or seeds yet is not fully ___.
grown
Why do birds lay eggs?
To reproduce and continue their life cycle.
The correct order for the stages of complete metamorphosis are:
A. egg, larva, pupa, adult
B. egg, pupa, adult, larva
C. egg, adult, larva, pupa
d. larva, egg, adult, pupa
A. egg, larva, pupa, adult
Describe the possible similarities you may see in trees that are siblings?
Leaf shape, acorn shape, leaf color
offspring
The correct order of a plants life cycle is:
A. Adult, Death, Young Adult, Seed
B. Seed, Adult, Death, Young Adult
C. Seed, Young Adult, Death, Adult
D. Seed, Young Adult, Adult, Death
D. Seed, Young Adult, Adult, Death
The correct order of an animal's life cycle is:
A. Birth, Death, Growth, Adult
B. Adult, Birth, Growth, Death
C. Birth, Growth, Adult, Death
D. Birth, Adult, Death, Growth
C. Birth, Growth, Adult, Death
What would happen to the life cycle of a lizard if a snake ate the lizard egg before it hatched?
The life cycle would end or not continue.
Describe the possible differences you may see in trees that are siblings?
They may be different heights, different amount of leaves, different amount of branches.
What is an organism?
Any living thing
What will happen if a plant does not get enough water or sunlight?
It will not reproduce and it's life cycle will end.
If a species was unable to reproduce, the species would...
die off, go extinct
True or False: The caterpillar is the larva stage and the cocoon is the pupa stage.
True
True or False: Inherited traits can vary within a group of the same type of organism.
True
In this stage of complete metamorphosis, the young looks nothing like the adult stage.
Larva Stage