KS1 Animals | Growth from Eggs to Babies to Adults

Science Quiz - Animals - Growth from Babies to Adults (Questions)

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.

What do we call baby chickens?

[ ]	Hens
[ ]	Ducks
[ ]	Chicks
[ ]	Lambs

What are ducklings when they grow up?

[ ]	Chickens
[ ]	Geese
[ ]	Swans
[ ]	Ducks

What do we call a baby goose?

[ ]	Duckling
[ ]	Chick
[ ]	Gosling
[ ]	Cygnet

What is the missing word?

Egg → _____ → Chicken

[ ]	Hen
[ ]	Duck
[ ]	Goose
[ ]	Chick

The picture shows a baby robin chick. It has just left the nest.

What is the missing word?

_____ → Chick → Robin

[ ]	Hen
[ ]	Egg
[ ]	Nest
[ ]	Baby

Where does the robin lay its eggs?

[ ]	In a nest
[ ]	On a leaf
[ ]	On a rock
[ ]	On the road

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

Birds lay eggs. So do reptiles. Which one of these animals is a reptile?

[ ]	Tortoise
[ ]	Hippopotamus
[ ]	Rhinoceros
[ ]	Crab

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

10.

A baby kangaroo is carried by its mother in a _____.

[ ]	Basket
[ ]	Cot
[ ]	Buggy
[ ]	Pouch

Science Quiz - Animals - Growth from Babies to Adults (Answers)

What do we call baby chickens?

[ ]	Hens
[ ]	Ducks
[x]	Chicks
[ ]	Lambs

Have you ever held a chick in your hand?

What are ducklings when they grow up?

[ ]	Chickens
[ ]	Geese
[ ]	Swans
[x]	Ducks

Ducks are very good swimmers

What do we call a baby goose?

[ ]	Duckling
[ ]	Chick
[x]	Gosling
[ ]	Cygnet

Goslings are baby geese. Cygnets are baby swans

What is the missing word?

Egg → _____ → Chicken

[ ]	Hen
[ ]	Duck
[ ]	Goose
[x]	Chick

Older chickens are often called hens

The picture shows a baby robin chick. It has just left the nest.

What is the missing word?

_____ → Chick → Robin

[ ]	Hen
[x]	Egg
[ ]	Nest
[ ]	Baby

Robins turn red as they get older

Where does the robin lay its eggs?

[x]	In a nest
[ ]	On a leaf
[ ]	On a rock
[ ]	On the road

Robin eggs have blue shells

Chicks come from eggs. This chick has just left the egg. What do we call it when the chick leaves the egg?

[x]	Hatching
[ ]	Sleeping
[ ]	Turning
[ ]	Waking

Have you ever seen a chick hatch from an egg?

Birds lay eggs. So do reptiles. Which one of these animals is a reptile?

[x]	Tortoise
[ ]	Hippopotamus
[ ]	Rhinoceros
[ ]	Crab

The giant tortoise can live to be very old

This is a fossil. It is a dinosaur egg. Dinosaurs lived in the past. What type of animal was a dinosaur?

[ ]	Bird
[ ]	Fish
[ ]	Mammal
[x]	Reptile

Baby dinosaurs hatched from eggs. Then they grew very, very big!

10.

A baby kangaroo is carried by its mother in a _____.

[ ]	Basket
[ ]	Cot
[ ]	Buggy
[x]	Pouch

Baby kangaroos are called joeys