Life Cycle of Animals

How do animals
change as they
grow?
What traits do
animals inherit
from their parents?
How are life cycles
different between
animals?

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How do animals change

as they grow?
All animals
start out as
babies and
grow and
change until
they become
an adult.

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What traits do animals

inherit from their
parents?

All animals inherit

some things from
their parents.
This means all
animals look a
little like their
parents.

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How are life cycles

different between
animals?

Some animals do
not look anything
like their parents
when they are
born. This total
change is called
a
metamorphosis.

How are life cycles

different between
animals?

Other animals
look like small
versions
of
their
parents
when they are
born. They do
not go through
metamorphosis

Complete Metamorphosis
A butterfly starts its life as
an egg.
The larva (caterpillar)
hatches from an egg and
eats leaves or flowers
almost constantly.
It turns into a pupa this is
a resting stage.
A beautiful, flying adult
butterfly emerges.

Incomplete Metamorphosis
Dragonfly lay their egg in
water.
Nymphs then spend some
time in the water to
continue its
metamorphosis.
Once nymphs shed their
skin, they spend the rest of
their life out of the water.

Metamorphosis
The mother frog lay her
eggs in the pond.
Tadpoles hatch from the
eggs and live in the pond.
The tadpoles turn into
Froglets. The body shrinks
and legs form.
The Froglets tail srinks, the
lungs develop and the back
legs grow and then we have
a Frog.

Anthropod Life Cycle

Egg Sac

Spiderlings

Egg

Adult

A female spider lays

thousands of eggs. The eggs
are wrapped in a silk egg sac.
The egg sac is made of silk
and is usually white.
Spiderlings hatch from the
eggs. They look like tiny
adults.
The last stage of a spider is
the adult stage.

Bird Life Cycle

Chick

Egg

Adult

The female penguin lays 1 or

2 eggs. After laying eggs the
females transfer the eggs to
their male partners.
As the egg hatch the chick
come out they are either
brown or black in color.
The time the chicks are
ready to swim, it is summer
and the sea is abundant with
food.

Fish Life Cycle

The egg grows inside the
mothers stomach.
The fertilized shark comes
out called pup.
The pup become bigger
and bigger and turn into
and full grown adult
shark.

Mammal Life Cycle

A baby bat is born. the
mother usually carry it.
Pups are the other name of
baby bat they usually
hang.
Pups cling to the mother
because they cannot fly on
its own until 2-3 months.
A bat is an adult when it is
around one years old.

Reptile Life Cycle

Snake lay its eggs in a hole in
the ground, they are usually
soft.
When the egg hatch, baby
snakes are off and running or
rather slithering on the ground
looking for food.
Baby snakes looks like an
adult snake and grow bigger
as days goes by.