Lesson 2 Page 2
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Discover: Life Cycle Scramble
Life cycle describes the stages that an organism goes through from birth until death. This provides ways for scientists to study how plants, insects, and animals grow and survive in various environments.
In wetlands some of the organism's growing time is spent on land and some in the water.
In Figures 1 as insects grow, reproduce, and then die, they go through their life cycles. This is depicted as a circle with arrows between the stages of growth.
In wetlands some of the organism's growing time is spent on land and some in the water.
In Figures 1 as insects grow, reproduce, and then die, they go through their life cycles. This is depicted as a circle with arrows between the stages of growth.
Figure 1 Example of a mosquito life cycle
The parts of a life cycle are called stages. Some organisms look and act very different during the various stages (such as a tadpole before it turns into a frog).
Some organisms do not change much at all during their various stages (such as a baby fish growing into an adult fish).
In the following activity, determine the life cycles of some common wetland animals.