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Animal Life Cycles

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1.
Which stage of a mosquito can lay eggs?
- the larva
- the egg
- the pupa
- the flying adult
2.
A grasshopper hatches as a nymph that looks like a small adult without wings. What stage comes next?
- larva
- pupa
- caterpillar
- adult with wings
3.
Look at the ladybug life cycle. Which stage is missing?
- tadpole
- nymph
- pupa
- hatchling
4.
Salmon hatch in a stream, swim to the ocean, and then return to the stream as adults. Why do they return?
- to find warmer ocean water
- to lay eggs where they hatched
- to turn back into young salmon
- to grow gills for the first time
5.
How is a frog's life cycle like a butterfly's?
- both breathe with gills as adults
- both have a chrysalis stage
- the young look very different from the adult
- both lay eggs on leaves
6.
Which animal goes through a pupa stage?
- a sea turtle
- a frog
- a grasshopper
- a ladybug
7.
A dragonfly nymph lives in a pond for months. What does it do when it is ready to become an adult?
- builds a chrysalis under the water
- lays eggs on the pond bottom
- climbs out of the water and sheds its skin
- grows a shell like a snail
8.
Which stage of a butterfly eats the most and grows the fastest?
- the egg
- the chrysalis
- the caterpillar
- the adult butterfly
9.
A sea turtle lays about 100 eggs on a beach. Why does it lay so many?
- the mother turtle stays to feed them
- only a few young will survive to become adults
- each egg needs 100 others to hatch
- the eggs keep each other cold
10.
A chick hatches from an egg. What stage comes after the chick?
- a young chicken
- a tadpole
- an egg again
- a larva

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About this worksheet

Animal life cycles show how animals are born or hatch, grow, become adults, and make young helps third graders connect observations with scientific explanations instead of memorizing isolated facts. Students may think every young animal looks like its parents, or that every insect has a pupa stage. This worksheet uses short evidence-based situations so students must read the setup, identify the pattern, and choose the answer that fits the science idea named in the title. Students order stages, find missing stages, compare insects with and without a pupa stage, and explain how adults start a new generation.

Support versions use familiar examples and direct wording. Standard and challenge versions add closer distractors and require more comparison. Encourage your child to point to the evidence in the prompt before choosing an answer. If the answer does not explain the observation or solve the stated problem, it is probably a distractor. That habit builds careful science reasoning and prepares students for longer investigations.