3. Examine me!
Directions: Examine the illustration below. Answer
the questions in your Answer Sheet.
Guide Questions:
1. What are the stages in the life cycle of a butterfly?
2. How would you describe an adult butterfly?
4. Despite being red,
Mars is a cold place
full of iron oxide dust
Jupiter is the biggest
planet in the entire
Solar System
Saturn is a planet
composed mostly of
hydrogen and helium
Metamorphosis- is a biological
process by which an animal
physically develops after birth or
hatching. It refers to the way insects
develop, grow, and change form,
(usually but not always) accompanied
by change of habitat or behavior.
5. Despite being red,
Mars is a cold place
full of iron oxide dust
Jupiter is the biggest
planet in the entire
Solar System
Saturn is a planet
composed mostly of
hydrogen and helium
• Most insects, like the lady bug, housefly,
mosquito, and butterfly, go through four stages
of complete metamorphosis such as;
Egg- female insects usually lay eggs.
Larva- hatched from an egg. Larva grow
quickly enough to have a molt or shed their
exoskeletons a few times before the pupa stage.
Sometimes, the stage of growth in larvae are
called “instars”. An example of a larvae is those
of butterflies which are called caterpillars.
6. Despite being red,
Mars is a cold place
full of iron oxide dust
Jupiter is the biggest
planet in the entire
Solar System
Saturn is a planet
composed mostly of
hydrogen and helium
Most insects, like the lady bug, housefly,
mosquito, and butterfly, go through four
stages of complete metamorphosis such
as;
Egg- female insects usually lay eggs.
Larva- hatched from an egg. Larva
grow quickly enough to have a molt or
shed their exoskeletons a few times before
the pupa stage.
7. Despite being red,
Mars is a cold place
full of iron oxide dust
Jupiter is the biggest
planet in the entire
Solar System
Saturn is a planet
composed mostly of
hydrogen and helium
Pupa- is formed when a larva makes a
cocoon around them and become busy of
changing into its adult form. They do not eat
during hiding time which takes a few days or
months, in some cases.
Adult- after a period of time, larvae is
nothing like it was and exist the cocoon or larval
body as an adult. This life cycle starts all over
again.
8. Despite being red,
Mars is a cold place
full of iron oxide dust
Jupiter is the biggest
planet in the entire
Solar System
Saturn is a planet
composed mostly of
hydrogen and helium
Animals that Undergo Complete Metamorphosis
9. Guide Questions:
1.What are the stages in the
life cycle of animals with
complete metamorphosis?
2.When do we say that a
certain life cycle is a
complete metamorphosis?
10. It’s a gas giant and
the biggest planet in
the Solar System
Saturn
Despite being red,
Mars is a cold place
full of iron oxide dust
Venus
Jupiter
Saturn is a gas giant,
composed mostly of
hydrogen and helium
It has a beautiful
name and is the
second planet from
the Sun
Mars
My values
Fact or Bluff!
Directions: Write FACT if the statement is true and write
BLUFF if the statement is false. Do this in your Answer
Sheet/Activity notebook.
_______1. A butterfly’s wings develop during the larva
stage.
_______2. Mosquitos undergo incomplete metamorphosis.
_______3. Another word for larvae is “instars”.
_______4. Butterfly, fly, and lady bug undergo complete
metamorphosis.
_______5. A female insect lays egg.
