Life Cycles Vocabulary

Any of various cold-blooded, usually smooth-skinned

vertebrates, characteristically hatching as an aquatic

larva with gills and then transforming into an adult with

air-breathing lungs.

A living thing that can move on its own and that gets its

energy from food.

To consider the similarities and differences among things.

The quality or state of having many different forms, types,

ideas, etc.

To make someone understand.

Plants that rely on pollination for reproduction.

Increase in size, abundance, or complexity.

The stages or sequence of events through which

organisms grow, reproduce, and die.

A single living thing.

A type of living thing that gets its energy from the Sun and

is unable to move from place to place on its own.