Year 5 Life Cycles Worksheet - Beginner

Year 5 Life Cycles worksheet for Year 5 (Key Stage 2 / Year 3-6 (Ages 7-11)). Beginner level science practice, aligned to the UK National Curriculum. Print-ready with answer key included.

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From Seed to New Life: Exploring Life Cycles

Year 5 Science • Ages 9–10 • Beginner

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Instructions: Explore how living things grow, reproduce and change during their life cycles. Read each prompt carefully and use the clues in the worksheet to help you answer. Write clearly in each box.

Life Cycle Clues

Read the short passage to find out how life cycles can differ. Then answer the questions using information from the passage. Each answer can be a word or a short sentence.

A life cycle describes the stages a living thing passes through as it grows and reproduces. A mammal such as a rabbit is born alive, grows into an adult and can have young. A frog begins life as an egg in water. The egg hatches into a tadpole, which changes as it grows into an adult frog. A butterfly begins as an egg, hatches into a caterpillar, forms a chrysalis and emerges as an adult. A bird hatches from an egg, grows into an adult and can lay eggs of its own.

1. Which animal begins life as a tadpole?

2. What is the young stage of a butterfly called?

3. How does a rabbit begin life: in an egg or born alive?

4. What does an adult bird produce as part of its life cycle?

5. Which butterfly life-cycle stage comes after the caterpillar?

Put the Stages in Order

The stages in each life cycle are mixed up. Write the stage numbers in the correct order, starting with the earliest stage. Use the example to help: a frog egg hatches into a tadpole.

1. Frog life cycle — adult frog; egg; tadpole; froglet. Correct order:

2. Butterfly life cycle — adult butterfly; chrysalis; egg; caterpillar. Correct order:

3. Bird life cycle — adult bird; chick hatches; egg; young bird grows. Correct order:

4. Mammal life cycle — adult; young is born; young grows; adult reproduces. Correct order:

Choose the Best Life-Cycle Answer

Choose one answer for each question by circling it. Think about what each animal looks like as it grows and how it reproduces.

1. Which animal undergoes a major change from tadpole to adult?

2. Which stage hatches from a butterfly egg?

3. How does a bird usually begin its life?

4. Which statement describes a mammal’s life cycle?

5. Which animal lays eggs as part of its life cycle?

How Plants Reproduce

Use the word bank to complete each sentence. Each word is used once. Remember: pollen can help plants make seeds, while some plants can also reproduce without seeds.

Word bank: pollen, seeds, runners, bulbs, cuttings

1. In sexual reproduction, pollen can help a flowering plant make ___.

2. A strawberry plant can grow new plants using long stems called ___.

3. Some plants, such as daffodils, can reproduce using underground ___.

4. A gardener can grow a new plant from a piece of stem called a ___.

5. The powder made by the male part of a flower is called ___.

Compare Animal Reproduction

Complete each sentence with a short answer. Use the life-cycle clues from Activities 1–3 and what you know about reproduction. Focus on how young animals begin life and grow.

1. Name one animal in this worksheet that hatches from an egg.

2. Name one mammal in this worksheet that is born alive.

3. What is one way a young frog changes as it grows?

4. What must an adult butterfly do for its life cycle to continue?

5. Give one difference between how a bird and a rabbit begin life.

Answer Key

Activity 1: 1. Frog ; 2. Caterpillar ; 3. Born alive ; 4. Eggs ; 5. Chrysalis

Activity 2: 1. Egg, tadpole, froglet, adult frog ; 2. Egg, caterpillar, chrysalis, adult butterfly ; 3. Egg, chick hatches, young bird grows, adult bird ; 4. Young is born, young grows, adult, adult reproduces

Activity 3: 1. frog ; 2. caterpillar ; 3. as a chick hatching from an egg ; 4. It is born alive and grows into an adult ; 5. hen

Activity 4: 1. seeds ; 2. runners ; 3. bulbs ; 4. cutting ; 5. pollen

Activity 5: 1. Frog, butterfly or bird ; 2. Rabbit ; 3. It grows legs and changes from a tadpole into a froglet/adult frog ; 4. Reproduce by laying eggs ; 5. A bird hatches from an egg, while a rabbit is born alive