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The Life Cycles of Animals

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  • A great change in appearance in some animals when they become an adult
    Metamorphosis
  • To make a copy of something
    Reproduce
  • A period in the growth or development of something
    Stage
  • The newly hatched young of an insect that si wingless and worm-like
    Larva
  • To stop existing, become lost
    Disappear
  • The process of growing
    Development
  • The way that someone or something looks (e.g.: the tadpoles' ___ can change as they grow)
    Appearance
  • The part of the cell that controls or influences the physical characteristics of a living thing, and can be passed down from parents to their young
    Gene
  • The stages through which a living thing goes through in its life, from the beginning of its life, to undergoing changes, reaching maturity as well as reproduction
    Life cycle
  • The protective casing which some insects make for themselves while they grow in their pupal stage
    Cocoon
  • To come out of an egg
    Hatch
  • A baby frog or toad that has a long tail
    Tadpole
  • The young insect that looks almost like the adult except that it is smaller and has no wings
    Nymph
  • To push an egg out of the body
    Lay an egg
  • The stage of development between larva and adult, during which the larva does not eat and undergoes complete transformation within a cocoon
    Pupa
  • The passing down of traits from parent to child
    Heredity
  • Fully grown, grown to full size
    Mature
  • To experience, to endure (e.g.: ____ moulting)
    Undergo
  • Shed the old skin or covering and replace it with new growth so that the body can grow bigger
    Moult
  • Young animals or birds
    Young
  • A fully grown animal or person
    Adult
  • If a species is this, there are just a few of animals left
    Endangered
  • If an animal is this, it no longer exists
    Extinct
  • A group of animals or plants that are similar
    Species
  • A characteristic or condition
    Trait