REPRODUCTION

Read each slide.

Look carefully at each picture.

Answer each question.

All living things

reproduce.

Dogs have puppies.

Pigs have piglets.

All animals must reproduce or become extinct.

Plants are living things, too.

Plants

make

baby

plants

called

seedlings.

This mighty

oak tree

started life

as a…

tiny acorn.

This frog started life as an egg.

Fish also start life as eggs.

Birds

start

life

from

eggs.

Snakes,

Alligators,

and insects all hatch from eggs.

Many

things

start

life

as

eggs.

The cycle of life continues year after year

for all living things.

Adults have babies,

Babies grow up,

They have more babies.

On and on forever and ever.

You and I are living, too.

Humans

make little

people called

babies or

infants..

And the circle of life continues.

Cats have kittens.

Plants drop seeds and start new plants.

People

have

babies.

All living things reproduce.

And the circle of life continues

over and over and over and…

QUIZ

1. Why must all living things reproduce?

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2. Name three living things that come from eggs. __________________________

3. What would happen if living things did not reproduce? __________________

4. How do many plants reproduce?

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