The Life Cycles of Animals

Name: Class: Date:

Consolidation Worksheet 1
Why Do Animals Reproduce?*
Tick (ü) 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 in an animal’s life.

3 All mammals give birth to live young.

4 Not all fishes lay eggs.

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

* This section contains additional materials not covered by the Cambridge Primary Science curriculum framework.

© 2014 Alston Publishing House Pte Ltd TOP Science Teacher’s Guide Stage 5 133
 The Life Cycles of Animals

Name: Class: Date:

Consolidation Worksheet 2
What Are the Life Cycles of Some
Animals?*
Complete the flowchart below by filling in the missing words in the empty boxes.
Use the words provided in the box 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
live young

such as Have life cycles with

Three stages

such as such as

• Frog • Butterfly

• • Mosquito

• •

* This section contains additional materials not covered by the Cambridge Primary Science curriculum framework.

134 Additional Teacher’s Resources © 2014 Alston Publishing House Pte Ltd
 The Life Cycles of Animals

Name: Class: Date:

Consolidation Worksheet 3
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

* This section contains additional materials not covered by the Cambridge Primary Science curriculum framework.

© 2014 Alston Publishing House Pte Ltd TOP Science Teacher’s Guide Stage 5 135
 The Life Cycles of Animals

Name: Class: Date:

Fun and Can You Spot Them?*

Games
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.

* This section contains additional materials not covered by the Cambridge Primary Science curriculum framework.

136 Additional Teacher’s Resources © 2014 Alston Publishing House Pte Ltd
 The Life Cycles of Animals

Name: Class: Date:

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
Lightbulb
Bowl of water
Styrofoam box

What could be the reason why the eggs Tip:

did not hatch? [1 mark] How does the temperature
affect the development of
the chicks in the eggs?

* This section contains additional materials not covered by the Cambridge Primary Science curriculum framework.

© 2014 Alston Publishing House Pte Ltd TOP Science Teacher’s Guide Stage 5 137
138
Chapter 2

Answers to Additional Teacher’s Resources Answers to Additional Teacher’s Resources

The Life Cycles of Animals The Life Cycles of Animals

Name: Class: Date: Name: Class: Date:

Consolidation Worksheet 1 Consolidation Worksheet 2

Why Do Animals Reproduce?* What Are the Life Cycles of Some
Tick (ü) the boxes next to the statements that are TRUE.
Animals?*
Complete the flowchart below by filling in the missing words in the empty boxes.
1 Living things reproduce to ensure the continuity of their own kind. Use the words provided in the box to help you. Each word or words can be used
✓

Additional Teacher’s Resources

only once.
2 A life cycle is made up of all the stages in an animal’s life. ✓ Mealworm Laying eggs Chicken
3 All mammals give birth to live young. Four stages Cockroach Rabbit
4 Not all fishes lay eggs. ✓
Ways of Reproduction
5 The life cycles of animals and the life cycles of plants are the same.

Giving birth to
Laying eggs
live young

such as Have life cycles with

Rabbit Three stages Four stages

such as such as

• Frog • Butterfly

• Chicken • Mosquito
• Cockroach • Mealworm

© 2014 Alston Publishing House Pte Ltd

* This section contains additional materials not covered by the Cambridge Primary Science curriculum framework.
* This section contains additional materials not covered by the Cambridge Primary Science curriculum framework.
 The Life Cycles of Animals The Life Cycles of Animals

Name: Class: Date: Name: Class: Date:

Consolidation Worksheet Fun and Can You Spot Them?*

3 Games
Why Do Young Grow Up to Look Like Their The young of some animals look like their parents, while the young of other
Parents?* animals do not. Spot the animals and their young. Circle each pair or group of
adult animals and their young with a different colour.
Which of the following characteristics can be inherited? Which of them cannot be
inherited? Complete the flowchart below.

© 2014 Alston Publishing House Pte Ltd

Eye colour Nail length Hair length

Single or double eyelids Scars Dimples

Characteristics

Can be inherited Cannot be inherited

Eye colour Nail length

Single or double eyelids Hair length Pupils should circle each pair or group of adult
animals and their young with a different colour:
Dimples Scars
farmer and girl; frog and tadpoles; chicken and
chicks; cow and calf; butterfly and caterpillar.

TOP Science Teacher’s Guide Stage 5

* This section contains additional materials not covered by the Cambridge Primary Science curriculum framework. * This section contains additional materials not covered by the Cambridge Primary Science curriculum framework.

Answers to Additional Teacher’s Resources Answers to Additional Teacher’s Resources

The Life Cycles

139
of Animals
140
Chapter 2

Answers to Additional Teacher’s Resources

The Life Cycles of Animals

Name: Class: Date:

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]

Additional Teacher’s Resources

To provide warmth for the chicks inside
the eggs to develop.

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
Lightbulb
Bowl of water
Styrofoam box

What could be the reason why the eggs Tip:

did not hatch? [1 mark] How does the temperature
affect the development of
The machine did not provide enough warmth the chicks in the eggs?

for the chicks inside the eggs to develop.

© 2014 Alston Publishing House Pte Ltd

* This section contains additional materials not covered by the Cambridge Primary Science curriculum framework.
Glossary
Chapter 2:
The Life Cycles of Animals

Cocoon The protective casing that 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, which can be passed down from

The Life Cycles

parents to their young

of Animals
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 To 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

© 2014 Alston Publishing House Pte Ltd TOP Science Teacher’s Guide Stage 5 141