Life Cycles of Organisms

Question 1

Which statement correctly describes how the offspring of humans, birds, frogs, and butterflies develop into adults?

Accepted Answer

Human babies are born live, while birds, frogs, and butterflies each begin life as eggs that hatch into a different form before becoming adults.

Answer

All four species—humans, birds, frogs, and butterflies—start life as eggs that hatch into smaller versions of the adult.

Answer

Frogs are born as tiny frogs that simply grow larger, just like human babies and bird chicks.

Answer

Butterflies hatch from eggs as tiny adult butterflies, which then grow larger without any other stages.

Question 2

Which statement best describes a similarity that is true for the life cycles of a butterfly, a frog, and an oak tree?

Accepted Answer

Each begins with a birth stage, then grows, later reproduces, and finally dies.

Answer

Each lays eggs as the only way to produce offspring.

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Each undergoes a dramatic metamorphosis that changes its shape completely before it can reproduce.

Answer

Each has exactly three distinct stages in its life cycle.

Question 3

Which list shows the four events that every living thing experiences during its life cycle?

Accepted Answer

Birth, growth, reproduction, death

Answer

Birth, growth, reproduction, aging

Answer

Birth, growth, sleep, death

Answer

Birth, growth, reproduction, hibernation

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