A butterfly's life cycle

This task is about understanding a butterfly's life cycle.

monarch butterfly

Knowing about life cycles helps you to understand one way animals and plants have adapted to survive.

This understanding helps us when we are interested in the survival of a species.

  1. Click on the link to the Monarch Butterfly Life Cycle (below). This will take you to another website.

  2. Click on the picture. You can then click on the labels to find out about the stages of the life cycle.

  3. Read the information for each label.

  4. Close the window. (You can return to it if you need to.)

  5. Click Next to answer four questions about the butterfly life cycle.

Monarch Butterfly Life Cycle

Question

Which is the growing stage of the monarch butterfly's life cycle?

       
Monarch Butterfly Life Cycle

 

    • Eggs

    • Caterpillar

    • Pupa

    • Butterfly

Question

What is the main reason for the butterfly stage of the life cycle?

       
Monarch Butterfly Life Cycle

 

    • To look after the caterpillars so they don't die

    • To lay eggs so there will be more butterflies

    • To grow into bigger adult butterflies

    • To help flowers by drinking their nectar.

Question 1Change answer

Why does the butterfly lay its eggs on the leaves of a swan plant?

Question Change answer

Sometimes we have an everyday word and a science word that mean the same thing.

Drag each word to match the word that is another name for the same stage of the life cycle. (One stage will be left over.)

Drag and drop image target