wunder beta🔄 Drawing Life Cycle Diagrams
Learn to read and draw life cycle diagrams, using arrows and circles to show how living things grow and repeat.
What you’ll learn
- Reading a Life CycleRead a life cycle diagram and understand that arrows show order and the cycle repeats.A life cycle diagram shows a living thing's stages as pictures arranged in a circle, with arrows showing the order. Because it is a circle, the cycle repeats. To draw one, learn the stages, arrange them in a circle, add arrows, close the loop, and label each stage.
- Drawing Your OwnDraw and order the life cycles of a frog and a sunflower.Animals and plants both have life cycles. A frog goes from egg to tadpole to froglet to frog, and a sunflower goes from seed to seedling to flower to new seeds. Drawing them means placing the stages in a circle and joining them with arrows.
Questions this course answers
What shape is a life cycle diagram usually drawn in?
A life cycle diagram is usually drawn in a circle, because the cycle repeats.
What do the arrows in a life cycle diagram show?
The arrows show the order that the stages happen in, from first to last.
Why do you add an arrow from the last stage back to the first?
You close the loop because a life cycle repeats: the last stage leads back to the first.
In the frog life cycle, what comes right after the egg?
Right after the egg comes the tadpole, which hatches and swims in the water.
Do plants have life cycles?
Yes, plants have life cycles too, like a sunflower growing from seed to flower and making new seeds.
What is the first stage of a sunflower's life cycle?
The first stage of a sunflower's life cycle is a seed.
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- BBC Bitesize
- National Geographic Kids
- Kew Gardens
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