Grade 2 · Science · Unit 7 of 9
Life Cycles
Butterflies, frogs and salmon
What your child practises
Life cycles of butterflies, frogs and BC salmon, and how babies compare with their parents.
Alberta Curriculum learning outcome: 2LS 1.2, 2LS 1.3 · how plants and animals are like their parents and the stages of their life cycles
Sample questions
A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.
Question 1
Put the butterfly's life cycle in order.
- 🐛caterpillar
- 🥚egg
- 🦋butterfly
- chrysalis
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egg → caterpillar → chrysalis → butterfly
Hint: It starts as a tiny egg on a leaf. A caterpillar hatches, makes a chrysalis, then comes out as a butterfly.
Question 2
Put the chicken's life cycle in order.
- 🥚egg
- 🐔adult hen
- young chicken with feathers
- 🐥chick
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egg → chick → young chicken with feathers → adult hen
Hint: A chick hatches from an egg, grows feathers, and becomes a hen or rooster.
Question 3
A baby deer is called a…
- 🦌fawn
- 🐻cub
- 🐄calf
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🦌 fawn
Hint: A fawn is a young deer. It has spots on its coat to hide in the forest.
Question 4
Which animal does NOT change its shape completely as it grows?
- 🦋a butterfly
- 🐕a dog
- 🐸a frog
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🐕 a dog
Hint: A puppy looks like a small dog. A butterfly and a frog change a lot.
Question 5
A calf grows up to be a…
- 🐄cow
- 🐖pig
- 🐑sheep
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🐄 cow
Hint: A calf is a baby cow.
Question 6
A life cycle shows how a living thing…
- 🗿stays exactly the same
- 🪨turns into a rock
- 🔄grows, changes and makes new life
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🔄 grows, changes and makes new life
Hint: A cycle goes round and round, from egg to adult and back to egg.