The Life Cycles of Animals

Name: Class: Date:

Consolidation Worksheet

Why Do Animals Reproduce?

Tick () the boxes next to the statements that are TRUE.

1 Living things reproduce to ensure the continuity of their own kind.

2 A life cycle is made up of all the stages of an animal’s life.
3 All mammals give birth to their young alive.
4 Not all fishes lay eggs.
5 The life cycles of animals and the life cycles of plants are the same.

© 2012 Alston Publishing House Pte Science SMART Teacher’s Guide Grade 1
Ltd 4
 The Life Cycles of Animals

Name: Class: Date:

Consolidation Worksheet

What Are the Life Cycles of

Some Animals?
Complete the flowchart below by filling in the missing words in the
boxes. Use the words below to help you. Each word or words can be
used only once.

Mealworm Laying eggs Chicken

Four stages Cockroach Rabbit

Ways of Reproduction

Giving birth to young alive

such as Have life cycles with

Three stages
such as
such as

Frog Butterfly
Mosquito
 The Life Cycles of Animals

Name: Class: Date:

Consolidation Worksheet

Why Do Young Grow Up to Look Like

Their Parents?
Which of the following characteristics can be inherited? Which of them
cannot be inherited? Complete the flowchart below.

Eye colour Nail length Hair length

Single or double eyelids Scars Dimples

Characteristics

Can be inherited Cannot be inherited

 The Life Cycles of Animals

Name: Class: Date:

Can You Spot

Them?
The young of some animals look like their parents, while the young of
other animals do not. Spot the animals and their young. Circle each pair or
group of adult animals and their young with a different colour.
 The Life Cycles of Animals

Name: Class: Date:

Exam Practice
Process skills: Observing, Inferring

Tom visited a farm. He saw a hen sitting on its eggs.

a. Why did the hen sit on its eggs? [1 mark]

b. Tom knows that chicken eggs must be kept at a temperature of

about 41 °C for 21 days for the chicks to develop. He built a simple
machine as shown below to keep eggs warm. He bought three
fertilised chicken eggs from the farm and placed them inside the
machine. He observed the eggs for 21 days. However, after 21 days,
the eggs did not hatch into chicks.

Air holes
Egg
Wire mesh

Bowl of water Lightbulb

Styrofoam box

What could be the reason why the eggs Hint:

did not hatch? [1 mark] How does the TEMPERATURE
AFFECT how the chicks in
the eggs develop?
 The Life Cycles of Animals

Ltd
Name: Class: Date:

imals Reproduce? Consolidation Worksheet

© 2012 Alston Publishing House Pte

1 Living things reproduce to ensure the continuity of their own kind.
✓
2 A life cycle is made up of all the stages of an animal’s life.
✓
3 All mammals give birth to their young alive.

4 Not all fishes lay eggs.

✓
5 The life cycles of animals and the life cycles of plants are the same.

4
Name: Class: Date:
The Life Cycles of Animals

Science SMART Teacher’s Guide Grade

used only once.
Consolidation Worksheet

Rabbit
such as
Answers to Additional Teacher’s Resources Answers to Additional Teacher’s Resources
Mealworm Four stages

Giving birth to young alive

The Life Cycles of Animals

71
Complete the flowchart below by filling in the missing words in t

Ways o

Th

Frog
What Are the Life Cycles of Some Ani
 C Answers to Additional Teacher’s Resources

The Life Cycles of Animals

h
a
pt
er
Name: Class: Date:

Can You Spot Them?

he Life Cycles of Animals

me: Class: Date:

Consolidation Worksheet
Why Do Young Grow Up to Look Like Their Parents?
or group of adult animals and their young with a

hich of the following characteristics can be inherited? Which of them cannot be inherited? Complete the flowchart below.
Answers to Additional Teacher’s Resources

Eye colour Nail length Hair length

s do not. Spot the animals and their young. Circle each pair

Single or double eyelids Scars Dimples

Characteristics

Can be inherited Cannot be inherited

Eye colour Nail length

Single or double eyelids Hair length

different colour.

Dimples Scars
 The Life Cycles of Animals
Answers to Additional Teacher’s Resources
The Life Cycles of Animals

Name: Class: Date:

Exam Practice
Process skills: Observing, Inferring
Tom visited a farm. He saw a hen sitting on its eggs.

a. Why did the hen sit on its eggs?[1 mark] To provide warmth for the chicks inside
the eggs to develop.

°C for 21 days for the chicks to develop. He built a simple machine as shown below to keep eggs warm. He bought three fertilised chicken eggs from the

Egg
Wire mesh
Lightbulb
Bowl of water Styrofoam box

What could be the reason why the eggsHint:

did not hatch?
How does
[1the temperature affect how the chicks in the
mark]

The machine did not provide enough warmth

for the chicks inside the eggs to develop.

C
Glossary
h Chapter 1:
a
The Life Cycles of Animals
pt
er Cocoon The protective casing which some insects make for themselves
while they grow in their pupal stage

Gene 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

Heredity The passing down of traits from parent to child

Larva (plural: larvae) The newly hatched young of an insect that is

wingless and worm-like

Life cycle 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

Metamorphosis A great change in appearance in some animals when they become

an adult

Moult Shed the old skin or covering and replace it with new growth so that
the body can grow bigger

Nymph The young insect that looks almost like the adult except that it is
smaller and has no wings

Pupa The stage of development between larva and adult, during which
the larva does not eat and undergoes complete transformation
within a cocoon

Trait A characteristic or condition

74 Glossary © 2012 Alston Publishing House Pte Ltd