Life Cycles of Animals Report

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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
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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 Froglet’s tail srinks, the
lungs develop and the back
legs grow and then we have
a Frog.
Anthropod Life Cycle
Egg Sac
• 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
Egg Spiderlings adults.
• The last stage of a spider is
the adult stage.

Adult
Bird Life Cycle
• 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
Chick come out they are either
brown or black in color.
Egg • The time the chicks are
ready to swim, it is summer
and the sea is abundant with
food.
Adult
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.

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