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Butterflies: Facts

By Janice VanCleave

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ask-janice-gen-front-page11 The butterfly and flower are both exquisite specimens of beauty.

With so many morphing cartoons, toys, as well as movie characters, the word metamorphosis should easily roll off the tongue of very young learners.

Science terms would so much easier if I’d taken Latin. So many science terms are a smorgasbord of Latin prefixes–roots–and suffixes. In fact, I think I’ll start playing and having fun with the science terms, starting with metamorphosis.

meta– about, study about, data about

morph–change in shape

osis–process or condition

Cool! Now I know that the term metamorphosis means–data about a shape changing process. It is for sure that the life cycle of butterflies is shape changing. Information about the metamorphosis of butterflies can be found here—> BUTTERFLY METAMORPHOSIS.

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