Animal Life Cycles Quiz: Butterflies, Frogs and More
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Animal Life Cycles Quiz: Butterflies, Frogs and More
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Animal life cycles quiz for kids: 25 questions about how butterflies, frogs, chickens, salmon and sea turtles grow and change. 🦋
From frogspawn to froglet and caterpillar to chrysalis, plus insects that live underground for years and butterflies that taste with their feet. Perfect for curious kids, classrooms and family quiz time.
❓ IN THIS QUIZ
- What does a caterpillar make before becoming a butterfly?
- Which legs does a tadpole grow first?
- How do butterflies taste their food?
- Which insect can live underground for 17 years?
💬 How many did you get right? Tell us your score in the comments. Which life cycle did you find the most amazing?
How to play
- Read the question and look at the pictures.
- Pick your answer before the timer runs out (or switch the timer off).
- See if you were right and read the fun fact.
Answers and fun facts (spoilers!)
- Let's explore life cycles! What hatches from a butterfly egg?
Caterpillar
Butterflies start life as tiny caterpillars! - What does a caterpillar make before becoming a butterfly?
Chrysalis
Inside the chrysalis, the caterpillar transforms into a butterfly! - Where do butterflies usually lay their eggs?
On leaves
Butterflies lay eggs on leaves their caterpillars like to eat! - What are frog eggs called?
Frogspawn
Frogspawn is lots of eggs wrapped in clear jelly! - Which legs does a tadpole grow first?
Back legs
Back legs come first, then the front legs, then the tail shrinks! - About how long does a chicken egg take to hatch?
About 21 days
A hen keeps her eggs warm for about 3 weeks! - What helps a chick break out of its egg?
An egg tooth
The egg tooth is a tiny bump on the beak that falls off after hatching! - Salmon hatch in rivers and grow in the sea. Where do they go to lay eggs?
Back to the river
Salmon swim back up the river where they were born! - Where do baby sea turtles go right after hatching?
To the sea
Hatchlings head for the sea, often at night! - A baby ladybug larva looks like what?
A tiny alligator
Ladybug larvae look like spiky little alligators! - Where do mosquito larvae live?
In water
That's why mosquitoes lay eggs in still water! - Baby dragonflies live where?
Underwater
Dragonfly nymphs can live underwater for years before flying! - How many stages are in a butterfly's life cycle?
4
Egg, caterpillar, chrysalis, butterfly! - Baby grasshoppers look like what?
Small adults
Young grasshoppers, called nymphs, look like small adults without wings! - How are most baby mammals born?
Born alive
Most mammals are born alive and drink their mother's milk! - What do bird eggs need to hatch?
Warmth
Parent birds sit on their eggs to keep them warm! - What do snakes do as they grow?
Shed their skin
Snakes wriggle out of their old skin when it gets too tight! - How do butterflies taste their food?
With their feet
Butterflies have taste sensors on their feet! - Monarch butterflies migrate how far?
Thousands of km
Monarchs fly thousands of kilometers to spend winter in Mexico! - Which animal can stay like a baby, with gills, its whole life?
Axolotl
Axolotls keep their baby features, like feathery gills, even as adults! - Adult mayflies live for about how long?
A day or less
Adult mayflies often live just a day or less! - What is the right order of a frog's life cycle?
Egg, tadpole, froglet, frog
Egg, tadpole, froglet, frog! - What do we call it when an animal completely changes its body shape as it grows?
Metamorphosis
Butterflies and frogs both go through metamorphosis! - Where does a baby kangaroo grow up?
In a pouch
Joeys grow in mom's pouch for months! - Final question! Which insect can live underground for 17 years before coming out?
Cicada
Periodical cicadas spend 13 or 17 years underground!