EVERYDAY SCIENCE - LIFE CYCLES
Question 2
Churros was in the garden when he found a grasshopper egg and a mealworm beetle egg. He kept the eggs in different containers, in the presence of food, water and air.
Sometime after the mealworm beetle egg had hatched, Churros could no longer see the mealworm larva. There was nothing moving about in the container. There was no hole big enough for the mealworm larva to escape. However, 10 days later, a beetle mysteriously appeared in the container.
Fill in the blanks with the keywords provided below.
a) Explain what had happened.
Answer:
The mealworm larva had turned into a
b) Why did this happen to only the mealworm beetle and not the grasshopper?
Answer:
The grasshopper goes through a
The grasshopper egg hatches into a
It does not undergo a pupa stage.
“An adult butterfly cannot immediately fly after emerging from the chrysalis because their wings are too tiny! It has to first pump body fluids to the wings for them to expand before it can start flying.”