Growth Patterns – Quiz

1. Insects shed exoskeleton to allow body mass to increase.

2. A ‘growth average’, where young organisms experience rapid accelerating growth to cope with their environment followed by a continuous steady growth.

3. Two growth spurts, one in infancy and another in adolescence.

4. For some plants, the lifespan is only about a year and in this lifespan, they continuously grow until they wither during Winter months.

5. Some trees form annual rings as they continue to grow year after year.