Year 2 science · C.13 · Living things
Label a life cycle
The chicken life cycle goes: egg → hatches → grows → lays eggs. Each stage comes after the last one, like steps on a ladder.
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Leo and Theo are curious. Which stage comes before a baby chicken hatches?
- Egg (right)
- Chick grows up
- Baby chicken flies away
Sam wonders: Which step happens after the chick grows up?
- Chicken lays an egg (right)
- Chick hatches again
- Baby chicken eats food
Ravi wonders: What stage happens when a baby chicken breaks out of its shell?
- Lay
- Hatch (right)
- Chicken
Tip: The chicken life cycle goes: egg → hatches → grows → lays eggs. Each stage comes after the last one, like steps on a ladder.
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