Vocabulary:
- Germinate – the period in a plant’s life cycle when a seed begins to grow (after a period of dormancy)
- Life cycle – sequential stages of growth and development that an organism goes through in its lifetime
LIFE CYCLES IN LIVING ORGANISMS
- Life cycle – sequential stages of growth and development that an organism goes through in its lifetime
- Beetle life cycle
- Stages may include:
- Egg
- Larva – eating and growing stage
- Pupa – transforming stage
- Adult – has three body sections, six legs, two antennae, and usually wings
- Stages may include:
- Cricket life cycle
- Stages may include:
- Egg
- Nymph – eating and growing stage, sheds its outer body covering (molts), looks like a smaller version of the adult
- Adult – has three body sections, six legs, two antennae, and usually wings
- Stages may include:
- Radish life cycle
- Stages may include:
- Seed
- Germination
- Seedling and root growth
- Flowering stage
- Seed production
- Stages may include:
- Lima bean life cycle
- Stages may include:
- Seed
- Germination
- Seedling and root growth
- Flowering stage
- Fruit and seed development (lima bean)
- Stages may include: