Life Cycles and Environments A Quiz

A life cycle begins at _______ and ends at ________.

A life cycle begins at birth and ends at death.

Compare the life cycle of a frog to the life cycle of a butterfly.

The stages of a butterfly’s life cycle are: Egg, larva, pupa, adult The stages of a frog’s life cycle are: Egg, tadpole with no legs, tadpole with back legs, tadpole with front and back legs, adult

Describe four stages of the plant’s life cycle.

The four stages of a plant’s life cycle are: seed, roots, stem, flowers

Plants are also known as _______ because they make their own food through photosynthesis.

Plants are known as producers.

Animals are known as _______ because they eat living things.

Animals are known as consumers.

What do you call animals that eat only meat?

Carnivores eat only meat.

What do you call animals that eat only plants?

Animals that eat only plants are herbivores.

What do we call animals that eat both plants and animals?

Omnivores eat plants and animals.

Animals that eat dead animals are called __________.

Animals that eat dead animals are scavengers or decomposers.

Give an example of a food chain that you may find in a temperate forest.

grass > rabbit> fox

Which type of environment is hot and dry?

A desert.

Which type of environment has two seasons: wet and dry? It is warm and has a lot of precipitation.

Tropical rain forest

Which type of environment is a vast area of saltwater?

ocean

Which type of environment is cold and dry and does not support much life?

tundra