Grades 1 and 2 | Science | Elementary School

Back to Science: Elementary School: 1st and 2nd Grade

Science: Elementary School: 1st and 2nd Grade Quiz - Animals - Butterflies (Questions)

This Science quiz is called 'Animals - Butterflies' and it has been written by teachers to help you if you are studying the subject at elementary school. Playing educational quizzes is a fun way to learn if you are in the 1st or 2nd grade - aged 6 to 8.

It costs only $12.50 per month to play this quiz and over 3,500 others that help you with your school work. You can subscribe on the page at Join Us

Butterflies brighten up our lives. They are colorful insects. They flutter from flower to flower. As you have studied animals you have learned about butterflies at school. They are very unusual animals and have an interesting life-cycle. As they grow up, they change a lot. They look completely different. How much do you know about the life-cycle of a butterfly?

Click on the pictures for a closer look.

What helps butterflies to fly?

[ ]	Arms
[ ]	Legs
[ ]	Head
[ ]	Wings

Where do butterflies lay their eggs?

[ ]	In a pond
[ ]	On a leaf
[ ]	On the ground
[ ]	In a nest

What hatches from butterfly eggs?

[ ]	Centipedes
[ ]	Caterpillars
[ ]	Worms
[ ]	Tadpoles

The caterpillar grows. It grows by eating _____.

[ ]	Leaves
[ ]	Flowers
[ ]	Roots
[ ]	Worms

The caterpillar turns into a _____.

[ ]	Spider
[ ]	Pupa
[ ]	Worm
[ ]	Egg

Inside the pupa, the caterpillar changes into a _____.

[ ]	Fly
[ ]	Butterfly
[ ]	Bee
[ ]	Beetle

Which one of these is the adult?

[ ]	Egg
[ ]	Pupa
[ ]	Chrysalis
[ ]	Butterfly

Which one of these can fly?

[ ]	Caterpillar
[ ]	Pupa
[ ]	Butterfly
[ ]	Chrysalis

Where do adult butterflies get their food?

[ ]	By eating leaves
[ ]	From flowers
[ ]	From roots
[ ]	By eating grass

10.

This insect is like a butterfly. But it is not as colorful. It is a _____.

[ ]	Beetle
[ ]	Bee
[ ]	Dragonfly
[ ]	Moth

Science: Elementary School: 1st and 2nd Grade Quiz - Animals - Butterflies (Answers)

What helps butterflies to fly?

[ ]	Arms
[ ]	Legs
[ ]	Head
[x]	Wings

When you look at a butterfly, it often seems to have just two wings. But butterflies have four wings - two on either side

Where do butterflies lay their eggs?

[ ]	In a pond
[x]	On a leaf
[ ]	On the ground
[ ]	In a nest

Butterflies lay lots of eggs

What hatches from butterfly eggs?

[ ]	Centipedes
[x]	Caterpillars
[ ]	Worms
[ ]	Tadpoles

Baby caterpillars are tiny

The caterpillar grows. It grows by eating _____.

[x]	Leaves
[ ]	Flowers
[ ]	Roots
[ ]	Worms

Caterpillars can eat great big holes in the leaves of plants

The caterpillar turns into a _____.

[ ]	Spider
[x]	Pupa
[ ]	Worm
[ ]	Egg

Another name for a pupa is a chrysalis

Inside the pupa, the caterpillar changes into a _____.

[ ]	Fly
[x]	Butterfly
[ ]	Bee
[ ]	Beetle

The butterfly looks completely different to the caterpillar

Which one of these is the adult?

[ ]	Egg
[ ]	Pupa
[ ]	Chrysalis
[x]	Butterfly

Most butterflies have beautiful, colored wings

Which one of these can fly?

[ ]	Caterpillar
[ ]	Pupa
[x]	Butterfly
[ ]	Chrysalis

What is your favorite color of butterfly?

Where do adult butterflies get their food?

[ ]	By eating leaves
[x]	From flowers
[ ]	From roots
[ ]	By eating grass

Butterflies and bees both get their food from flowers

10.

This insect is like a butterfly. But it is not as colorful. It is a _____.

[ ]	Beetle
[ ]	Bee
[ ]	Dragonfly
[x]	Moth

Moths are often brown or gray in color. They grow just like a butterfly. They have eggs and caterpillars. But instead of a pupa, the moth caterpillar makes a cocoon