🐣 Animal Life Cycles 🦋

Learn about how animals grow and change!

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🎯 Drag & Drop

Match animals with their life cycle stages

🔢 Sequence Game

Put life cycle stages in correct order

🧩 Memory Match

Find matching pairs of life cycle stages

🧩 3D Puzzle

Build 3D models of life cycles

Drag & Drop Game

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Sequence Game

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Memory Match Game

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3D Puzzle Game

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📝 Knowledge Quiz

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📚 Study Notes: Animal Life Cycles

🎯 Learning Objectives

  • Identify animals that lay eggs and animals that do not
  • Describe how chickens are born and develop
  • Explain metamorphosis and the butterfly life cycle
  • Compare different types of animal life cycles

🥚 Animals That Lay Eggs (Oviparous)

  • Birds: Chickens, ducks, eagles, sparrows
  • Reptiles: Snakes, lizards, turtles, crocodiles
  • Fish: Most fish lay eggs in water
  • Insects: Butterflies, bees, ants, beetles
  • Amphibians: Frogs, toads (lay eggs in water)

🐄 Animals That Give Birth to Live Young (Viviparous)

  • Mammals: Dogs, cats, cows, humans, elephants
  • Some fish: Sharks, guppies
  • Some reptiles: Some snakes and lizards

🐣 Chicken Life Cycle

  • Stage 1 - Egg: Mother hen lays fertilized egg
  • Stage 2 - Embryo: Baby chick develops inside egg (21 days)
  • Stage 3 - Hatching: Chick breaks out of eggshell
  • Stage 4 - Chick: Young chicken with fluffy feathers
  • Stage 5 - Adult Chicken: Fully grown, can lay eggs

🦋 Butterfly Metamorphosis (Complete Change)

  • Stage 1 - Egg: Tiny eggs laid on leaves
  • Stage 2 - Larva (Caterpillar): Hatches and eats leaves, grows bigger
  • Stage 3 - Pupa (Chrysalis): Forms protective casing, transforms inside
  • Stage 4 - Adult Butterfly: Emerges with wings, can fly and lay eggs

🔄 Types of Life Cycles

  • Complete Metamorphosis: 4 stages (egg → larva → pupa → adult) - butterflies, beetles
  • Incomplete Metamorphosis: 3 stages (egg → nymph → adult) - grasshoppers, dragonflies
  • Direct Development: Baby looks like small adult - chickens, mammals

🌟 Fun Facts

  • A chicken egg takes exactly 21 days to hatch
  • Butterflies taste with their feet!
  • Some animals can change from male to female during their life
  • The largest egg belongs to the ostrich
  • Metamorphosis means "change of form" in Greek

🧠 Remember These Key Points

  • Egg-laying animals are called oviparous
  • Live-birth animals are called viviparous
  • Metamorphosis is a complete change in body form
  • All life cycles help animals survive and reproduce
  • Different animals have different strategies for raising young