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Life Cycles Quiz
Life cycles of butterflies, frogs, chickens and plants: stages, metamorphosis and growth.
- 🎓 Grades 2–3
- 🧪 Science
- 📐 3-LS1-1
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What hatches from a butterfly egg?
- A Tadpole
- B Caterpillar
- C Chick
- D Pupa
What is the stage between caterpillar and butterfly?
- A Pupa (chrysalis)
- B Egg
- C Tadpole
- D Seedling
What does a tadpole grow into?
- A Butterfly
- B Frog
- C Snake
- D Fish
How does a tadpole breathe at first?
- A With feathers
- B Through a shell
- C With lungs
- D With gills
What is the first stage of a chicken's life cycle?
- A Hen
- B Egg
- C Feather
- D Chick
What is a young chicken called?
- A Kit
- B Cub
- C Chick
- D Tadpole
A big change in body shape during a life cycle is called…
- A Hibernation
- B Migration
- C Pollination
- D Metamorphosis
What is the first stage in a plant's life cycle?
- A Leaf
- B Flower
- C Fruit
- D Seed
What grows from a seed when it sprouts?
- A Seedling
- B Tadpole
- C Larva
- D Pupa
In what order does a butterfly grow?
- A Egg, pupa, caterpillar, adult
- B Pupa, egg, adult, caterpillar
- C Caterpillar, egg, adult, pupa
- D Egg, caterpillar, pupa, adult
In what order does a frog grow?
- A Egg, froglet, tadpole, frog
- B Egg, tadpole, froglet, frog
- C Tadpole, egg, frog, froglet
- D Froglet, egg, tadpole, frog
What does a caterpillar mostly do?
- A Lay eggs
- B Sleep in a nest
- C Eat leaves and grow
- D Fly to flowers
What does a froglet still have that a frog does not?
- A Feathers
- B Gills only
- C A shell
- D A short tail
Do mammals like dogs go through metamorphosis?
- A Yes
- B No
Puppies look like small adult dogs and grow bigger.
What is a baby frog called?
- A Joey
- B Calf
- C Kid
- D Tadpole
What is a young plant called?
- A Kit
- B Larva
- C Nymph
- D Seedling
What does an adult butterfly do to start a new life cycle?
- A Builds a nest
- B Grows roots
- C Spins a web
- D Lays eggs
What covers a chick while it grows inside an egg?
- A Soil
- B Fur
- C A shell
- D A chrysalis
A young grasshopper looks like a small adult. What is it called?
- A Seedling
- B Tadpole
- C Nymph
- D Pupa
Why is a life cycle called a cycle?
- A It is round like a wheel
- B It only happens to bikes
- C It happens only once
- D It repeats over and over
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