This challenging worksheet pushes second graders to think carefully about chicken and plant life cycles. Part A has four multiple-choice questions about the correct order of chicken stages, how a chick uses its egg tooth, what a seed needs to sprout, and which animal does NOT go through metamorphosis.
Part B asks five fill-in-the-blanks about a hen sitting for 21 days, the down feathers a chick is born with, how bees carry pollen between flowers, and the word for a male chicken. Working through trickier vocabulary like incubation and pollen helps students explain life cycles in their own words.
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Life Cycles
Part A: Multiple Choice
Circle the best answer for each question.
1. What is the correct order of a chicken life cycle?
A) chick, egg, hen, rooster
B) egg, chick, young chicken, adult chicken
C) hen, rooster, egg, chick
D) adult chicken, chick, egg, hen
2. How does a chick get out of its egg?
A) The mother cracks the shell open.
B) It uses its egg tooth to break the shell.
C) The shell melts away on its own.
D) It kicks the shell with its feet.
3. What does a plant need before its seed can sprout?
A) only darkness
B) only soil
C) water and warmth
D) ice and snow
4. Which animal does NOT go through metamorphosis?
A) butterfly
B) frog
C) chicken
D) moth
Part B: Fill in the Blank
Write the correct answer on each line.
1. A hen sits on her eggs for about 21 days before they hatch.
2. After a seed sprouts, it grows a stem and leaves.
3. A chick is covered in fluffy down when it first hatches.
4. Bees help plants by carrying pollen from flower to flower.
5. A rooster is a male adult chicken.
Life Cycles
★ Part A: Multiple Choice
Circle the best answer for each question.
1. What is the correct order of a chicken life cycle?
A) chick, egg, hen, rooster
B) egg, chick, young chicken, adult chicken
C) hen, rooster, egg, chick
D) adult chicken, chick, egg, hen
2. How does a chick get out of its egg?
A) The mother cracks the shell open.
B) It uses its egg tooth to break the shell.
C) The shell melts away on its own.
D) It kicks the shell with its feet.
3. What does a plant need before its seed can sprout?
A) only darkness
B) only soil
C) water and warmth
D) ice and snow
4. Which animal does NOT go through metamorphosis?
A) butterfly
B) frog
C) chicken
D) moth
★ Part B: Fill in the Blank
Write the correct answer on each line.
1) A hen sits on her eggs for about 21 days before they hatch.
2) After a seed sprouts, it grows a stem and leaves.
3) A chick is covered in fluffy down when it first hatches.
4) Bees help plants by carrying pollen from flower to flower.
5) A rooster is a male adult chicken.
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