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6th grade · Science · Unit 9 of 9

Growing & Reproducing

Flowers, nests, genes, sunlight and copies of parents.

What your child practices

Practices how animal behaviors and plant structures help reproduction, how environment and genes affect growth, and how asexual and sexual reproduction differ. California places these middle school standards in 6th grade.

California Content Standards learning standard: MS-LS1-4; MS-LS1-5; MS-LS3-2 · behaviors and structures that help organisms reproduce, what affects growth, and asexual versus sexual reproduction

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    Bright petals and sweet nectar help a flower…

    • drink water
    • attract pollinators
    • make shade
    • scare away insects

  2. Question 2

    Salmon swim upstream to the streams where they hatched to…

    • eat rocks
    • find warm water to live in
    • lay and fertilize eggs
    • escape the ocean forever

  3. Question 3

    Asexual reproduction needs…

    • two parents
    • one parent
    • no parents
    • three parents

  4. Question 4

    Which is an advantage of sexual reproduction?

    • It creates variation in offspring
    • Offspring are exact copies
    • It is always faster
    • It needs only one parent

  5. Question 5

    Two puppies from big parents both grow large. Size here is mostly from…

    • genes
    • the weather
    • their toys
    • their names

  6. Question 6

    Monarch butterflies gather in coastal California groves in winter. This behavior helps them…

    • make new flowers
    • turn into caterpillars
    • survive the cold months
    • grow gills

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