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Animals - Growth from Babies to Adults
It's not only birds that lay eggs. Dinosaurs came from eggs too!

Animals - Growth from Babies to Adults

This quiz addresses the requirements of the National Curriculum KS1 Science for children aged 5 and 6 in years 1 and 2. Specifically this quiz is aimed at the section dealing with animal growth.

One of the things that you have found out in science is that all animals grow. They get bigger. Sometimes the adults can look quite different to the babies. Some animals hatch from eggs. Birds do this. Baby birds, or chicks, hatch from eggs. Then they grow into adult birds like chickens. Let's find out more about young animals and how they grow up.

1.
What is the missing word?

Egg → _____ → Chicken
Hen
Duck
Goose
Chick
Older chickens are often called hens
2.
Where does the robin lay its eggs?
In a nest
On a leaf
On a rock
On the road
Robin eggs have blue shells
3.
Chicks come from eggs. This chick has just left the egg. What do we call it when the chick leaves the egg?
Hatching
Sleeping
Turning
Waking
Have you ever seen a chick hatch from an egg?
4.
The picture shows a baby robin chick. It has just left the nest.

What is the missing word?

_____ → Chick → Robin
Hen
Egg
Nest
Baby
Robins turn red as they get older
5.
What do we call baby chickens?
Hens
Ducks
Chicks
Lambs
Have you ever held a chick in your hand?
6.
What do we call a baby goose?
Duckling
Chick
Gosling
Cygnet
Goslings are baby geese. Cygnets are baby swans
7.
What are ducklings when they grow up?
Chickens
Geese
Swans
Ducks
Ducks are very good swimmers
8.
This is a fossil. It is a dinosaur egg. Dinosaurs lived in the past. What type of animal was a dinosaur?
Bird
Fish
Mammal
Reptile
Baby dinosaurs hatched from eggs. Then they grew very, very big!
9.
A baby kangaroo is carried by its mother in a _____.
Basket
Cot
Buggy
Pouch
Baby kangaroos are called joeys
10.
Birds lay eggs. So do reptiles. Which one of these animals is a reptile?
Tortoise
Hippopotamus
Rhinoceros
Crab
The giant tortoise can live to be very old
You can find more about this topic by visiting BBC Bitesize - How do animals grow?

Author:  David Bland

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