The Life Cycles of Animals
≈ 18 minAnimals have life cycles too. They begin life in one of two ways:
- Some animals are born as live young — for example goats, dogs, cows and people. The mother gives birth to a baby.
- Other animals hatch from eggs — for example chickens, birds, frogs, snakes and insects.
After starting, the young grow into adults, and the adults reproduce to make the next generation. Some young look like small versions of their parents (a puppy already looks like a little dog). Others look completely different at first: a frog begins as an egg, hatches into a tadpole that swims with a tail, becomes a froglet, and finally grows into an adult frog.
Which of these animals hatches from an egg?
A young frog that lives in water and swims with a tail is called a ______.
A frog's life cycle is: egg → tadpole → froglet → adult frog. How many stages is that?
Which baby looks most like a small version of its parent?