How Animals Grow and Change

1. How Animals Grow and Change How Are Babies Like Their Parents

2. Life Cycles • During its life cycle, animals go through many changes.

3. Life Cycles • Some animal babies look like their parents.

4. Life Cycles • Some animals look very different from their parents, but their body changes as they grow.

5. Eggs • The first stage in most animals life cycles is the egg. • Eggs protect the embryo and provide food. • Embryo-a developing animal before it is born or hatched

6. Frog Eggs Squash Bug Angelfish Eggs Eggs • Different kinds of animals produce different eggs. • Animals that lay a lot of eggs usually leave

7. Robin Eggs Platypus Eggs • Other animals lay just a few eggs. They will stay and protect them.

8. Eggs • Some animals DON’T lay eggs. • The babies develop inside the mother’s body.