Internal/External Stimulus

Jackson is around his friend who is constantly sick. Jackson begins coughing and sneezing the next day at school. What is the possible stimulus and response?

• Internal stimulus is coughing, the response is getting sick
• External stimulus is coughing, the response is getting sick
• Internal stimulus is germs/bacteria, the response is coughing
• External stimulus is germs/bacteria, the response is coughing

Which of the following is an example of an external Stimuli?

• Becoming dehydrated and then taking a drink of water
• Getting a headache and then taking Excedrin
• Having hunger pains and then eating a sandwich
• Smelling Pizza and then eating a piece

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There is high temperature outside. What type of response can a person's body have to regulate body temperature?

• Wearing a jacket
• Sweating
• Taking an ice bath
• Wearing a visor

Which of the following is an example of internal stimuli?

• Smelling pizza and then eating a piece of pizza
• Seeing ice cream on television and then eating a bowl of ice cream
• After working out feeling sore in your legs and then placing ice on the sore spot
• After working out seeing a bottle of water and drinking water

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Steven sets a brand new plant near the window. After several weeks Steven realizes the flower is starting to tilt towards the sunlight. What would be considered the stimuli in this scenario?

• Water
• The dirt in the flower pot
• The sunlight
• The window

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NGSS.MS-LS1-5

Stimulus...

• A change that prompts an action-the cause
• The ability to maintain a stable internal environment (type of equilibrium or balance)
• How an organism reacts to a change and results in a change in behavior- the effect
• Constant and balanced environment

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Homeostasis...

• A stimulus from inside an organism
• How an organism reacts to a change
• The ability to maintain a stable internal environment (type of equilibrium or balance)
• A stimulus from outside an organism

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A student places a plant in a dark room next to a growth lamp, while providing sufficient water and nutrients to ensure the plant's growth and survival.  The plant is likely to respond by-

• bending towards the lamp.
• wilting and eventually dying.
• shedding all of its leaves.
• increasing its rate of photosynthesis

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